Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoA single DNS race condition brought AWS to its kneesgo.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square118fedilinkarrow-up1618arrow-down18
arrow-up1610arrow-down1external-linkA single DNS race condition brought AWS to its kneesgo.theregister.comMatt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloud to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square118fedilink
minus-squareNickwithaC@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75·3 days agoI always view the source of websites like this and this is one of the worst I’ve seen. 217 lines of code (including inline Javascript?!) and a Google tag for some reason, all to put the word YES in green on black.
minus-squareXylight@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down2·3 days agothis made me mad so i made a single, ultra minimal html page in 5 minutes that you can just paste in your url box data:text/html;base64,PCFkb2N0eXBlaHRtbD48Ym9keSBzdHlsZT10ZXh0LWFsaWduOmNlbnRlcjtmb250LWZhbWlseTpzYW5zLXNlcmlmO2JhY2tncm91bmQ6IzAwMDtjb2xvcjojMmYyPjxoMT5JcyBpdCBETlM/PC9oMT48cCBzdHlsZT1mb250LXNpemU6MTJyZW0+WWVz source code: <!doctypehtml><body style=text-align:center;font-family:sans-serif;background:#000;color:#2f2><h1>Is it DNS?</h1><p style=font-size:12rem>Yes
minus-squareferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoYour website no longer uses DNS invalidating its use as a diagnostic tool lmao
minus-squareXylight@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoi never thought about that. i assumed the first page was just a joke website like “days since last JavaScript framework” always being zero
minus-squareSayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·3 days agoAgreed, could be static HTML and a GIF. Thanks, I won’t click that link.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoI just did the same f’ing thing and came here to write your comment! well done.
minus-squareijhoo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·3 days agoDid not think of doing that. I guess i never expected anyone to have a fcking JavaScript on a simple page as that
minus-squareRandelung@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoHow else would you center a div??
minus-squareNickwithaC@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agohttp://howtocenterincss.com/
minus-squarehexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agolmao, considering some of the meaningless comments there i’m starting to think it’s “vibe coded”.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoThere have been 209 versions of that site https://web.archive.org/web/20250331043558/https://www.isitdns.com/ it predated AI, but likely seems to have had some AI cleanup. If it was truly just vibecoded, the comments would usually be on every element.
https://isitdns.com/
I always view the source of websites like this and this is one of the worst I’ve seen. 217 lines of code (including inline Javascript?!) and a Google tag for some reason, all to put the word YES in green on black.
this made me mad so i made a single, ultra minimal html page in 5 minutes that you can just paste in your url box
data:text/html;base64,PCFkb2N0eXBlaHRtbD48Ym9keSBzdHlsZT10ZXh0LWFsaWduOmNlbnRlcjtmb250LWZhbWlseTpzYW5zLXNlcmlmO2JhY2tncm91bmQ6IzAwMDtjb2xvcjojMmYyPjxoMT5JcyBpdCBETlM/PC9oMT48cCBzdHlsZT1mb250LXNpemU6MTJyZW0+WWVzsource code:
Your website no longer uses DNS invalidating its use as a diagnostic tool lmao
i never thought about that. i assumed the first page was just a joke website like “days since last JavaScript framework” always being zero
Agreed, could be static HTML and a GIF.
Thanks, I won’t click that link.
I just did the same f’ing thing and came here to write your comment!
well done.
Did not think of doing that.
I guess i never expected anyone to have a fcking JavaScript on a simple page as that
How else would you center a div??
http://howtocenterincss.com/
lmao, considering some of the meaningless comments there i’m starting to think it’s “vibe coded”.
There have been 209 versions of that site
https://web.archive.org/web/20250331043558/https://www.isitdns.com/
it predated AI, but likely seems to have had some AI cleanup.
If it was truly just vibecoded, the comments would usually be on every element.
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