cPanel is written in perl.

I doubt it. I think the author of this page is giving himself way too much credit. The only evidence that anyone "panicked" is the author's own statements that they must have. More likely someone put in a WAF rule that 401'd for his IP.

"By running these honeypots, the police create suspicion and paranoia in the community. If you want to buy a DDoS attack, you now have to wonder if the website is real or just a police honeypot logging your IP. They want people to stop trusting these services entirely."

Well, good, right? What "community" is this diabolical suspicion and paranoia being created in? The community kids who want to DDoS some other kids' game servers? OK, again, that's good, right?

"But it really just feels more like feds jerking themselves off on how cool they are."

Pot, kettle.

"Does this video and the honeypot have any real impact? Let's be honest: probably not."

How does the author know? According to Wikipedia, the larger operation has shut down 4 dozen sites offering DDoS services.

Sure, gov't is often clueless and maybe this is effective or maybe it isn't. Maybe it's an experiment. Maybe it's actually intercepted a fair number of potential customers.

If clueless teens are signing up for booters and it's actually LEO who contacts them and says "you know, that's illegal" then that's a good thing.

You can also call it Debian 13.

True, you have to have Internet, but you're going to have Internet regardless.

Compare to the 1980s where you had to drive to a Blockbuster and pay $3 or $4 a pop for VHS.

And you can still rent movies. Heck, if you want to live in the 1990s, your local pawn shop or flea market has tons of DVDs you can buy for less than a 1990s rental.

I was a horrible chess player but painstakingly worked out a way to win as white, keeping a detailed log of my experiments in a notebook. The first couple moves were wildly out of book (because I didn't know book), and the computer with its limited Z80 processor always computed the same moves after that. Some googling [1] shows the board's Elo is 1300ish.

To illustrate the state of the art in 1979, the manual [2] explicitly calls out that it understands en passant and castling.

[1] https://www.spacious-mind.com/html/chess_challenger_7.html

[2] https://ia902902.us.archive.org/20/items/mame0.211manualsful...

Given that alcohol is carcinogenic, there is no such thing as "drinking healthily".

That point aside, alcoholism rates in the Eastern EU are much higher than the US. And Russia/Belarus leads the world. I don't think younger drinking age correlates very well with reduced rates of alcoholism.

In the 70s, it was called "time-sharing". Instead of buying a mainframe, you got a CICS application instance on a mainframe and used that. (tangentially, spare time on these built-out nation-wide dialup-supported networks is what gave birth to CompuServe and GEnie).

In the dot-com era, it was called "application service providers". Salesforce and actually started in this era (1999). So did NetSuite. This was the first attempt to be browser-based but bandwidth and browsers sucked then.

I think PaaS is a more recent software paradigm, albeit a far less successful one.

But if you're working with others, you should default to using standard industry tools (absent a compelling reason not to) because your work will be handed off to others and passed on to new team members. It's unreasonable to expect that a new Windows or Linux sysadmin or desktop support tech must learn Rust to maintain a workstation setup workflow.

I recently investigated large portable power banks (Jackery, etc.) and like that there are options to charge faster with a battery life tradeoff. Let people make their own informed choices.

I suspect it's a moot point. Makers have every incentive to drive replacement cycles.

The $1 to $5 a month to have excellent, reliable connectivity (that no residential connection provides), DDoS protection, and isn't tied to my home IP outweighs any home hosting benefit in my experience.

Just the obvious one: the people who designed IPv6 didn't design for backwards compatibility.

Yet I can still rent a VPS with IPv4 for $12/year from a wide variety of providers.

Maintaining version history out to a set retention period is a backup...no?