_joe
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
We should never take such posts too seriously.
What can be interesting, I think, is that you have a completely open infrastructure that has to solve problems on a global traffic scale.
If people are interested in knowing more, I suggest you also take a peek at the wikimedia techblog, specifically to the SRE category https://techblog.wikimedia.org/category/site-reliability-eng... and the performance one https://techblog.wikimedia.org/category/performance/
But this goes beyond that - it's some blind check of internet connectivity for the app, and doesn't get shown to the user. We're pretty sure of that, given that with the amount of noise that task generated, if there was an app featuring that image at least one of the ~ 90M daily "views" would've been someone reading these posts.
Now, given we want to be nice, we didn't just blindly block the traffic, although making requests without user-agent is against our UA policy https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy
You can see per-server stats on purges happening here:
This discovery is significant, because we never found a collapsed object in the 2-3 solar masses range, but it definitely doesn't need new physics to be explained.
I can't imagine it's being upvoted.
And in the VPN world, trust is fundamental.
I am still surprised you didn't see this coming.
When your business is privacy and trust, any acquisition is problematic. Let alone an acquisition from a company with a similar track record.
A big part of security is your relationship with the people providing you hosting.
The compromises to nordvpn and others came from a rogue hosting company, for instance.
Basically no one is ever willing to wait for anyone else, as OP's reasoning shows pretty adamantly.
Of course they're grossly incorrect.