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-square106fedilinkarrow-up1582arrow-down17
arrow-up1575arrow-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-square106fedilink
minus-squareNickwithaC@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72·3 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-up19arrow-down1·3 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-up2·2 days 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-up27·3 days agoAgreed, could be static HTML and a GIF. Thanks, I won’t click that link.
minus-squareijhoo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-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-up4·3 days agoHow else would you center a div??
minus-squareNickwithaC@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agohttp://howtocenterincss.com/
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoI just did the same f’ing thing and came here to write your comment! well done.
minus-squarehexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agolmao, considering some of the meaningless comments there i’m starting to think it’s “vibe coded”.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 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.
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.
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/
I just did the same f’ing thing and came here to write your comment!
well done.
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.