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The headline graphic really caught my attention, because my fingers have ls -latr ingrained into them.

I thought it oddly fitting.

For the love of good give me a tl;dr

That page loads but doesn't render for me (Chrome 4.x/FF 36) ... I feel so excluded.

  Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'in_china' of undefined

That looks like somebody messed up while converting image data to vector data in their GIS.

Sometimes you see stuff similar to this when you have a bunch of coordinates and a few of them are corrupted - then the lines would shoot off somewhere, and sometimes you might not even notice it. BUT this doesn't look like that - hell it could be pastefuck.

I thought I was going to see Phil Fish fight himself, somehow.

Why isn't there a big fat blinking TRY ME button somewhere on that site? And if it's there, why isn't it in my face? And don't ask me to create an account before showing me the goods, because I won't.

Aw man, I've turned into the typical negative HN commenter. My mother would be so ashamed.

Could somebody explain to this mere mortal what drives these DDoS attacks? Is it blackmail? Is it the lulz?

Well, these hits on your ssh port target only the most low-hanging of the low-hanging fruit - i.e. common username/password combinations. Nobody's brute-forcing you anything, they're just trying some common user/pass pairs at random. Disable remote login by password in lieu of key authentication and you can sleep tightly while listening to the soothing hum of failed login attempts crashing upon your airtight SSH configuration.

In the long run, I've found that years pass and connections configs get lost and you forget which fancy port you used for your SSH connection on that server. Maybe YOU have an ironclad convention, but your co-worker had another one, and you can't remember what port he used. And he's left the company or died or joined a cult.

Kids, leave your SSH ports alone. A config is just a config. But keys are forever.

Yeah, I'm amazed that people consistently run around reinventing the wheel, when there are 18-wheeled chariots out there free for the grabbing.

Same here. Windows 7 Pro x86, Chrome.