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At 12:15 a.m. yesterday my phone lit up; emails and text messages poured in one after another — network traffic alerts, CPU alerts. There must be something unspeakable behind this. Why do hundreds of threads keep dropping? Why do callbacks take forever to return? Why does MySQL keep getting assaulted?
On October 5, 2022, still during the National Day holiday, MacWk — the Mac cracked-software site — went offline. I'm in the official Telegram channel too, where everyone was muted. Word from all sides is that it went broke.
If you like tearing things apart: this drive served me four years and couldn't be saved. Today I'm taking it apart to show you, letting it give off its last bit of warmth and leaving DIY electronic enthusiasts with some final bits of knowledge.
A week ago someone kept hammering my traffic — see the post Notice: This Site Was Recently Hit by Malicious Traffic. Today, past 4 a.m., every monitoring channel started howling at me through app, DingTalk, email, and SMS: another scan. Fortunately, having been burned last time, I already had countermeasures ready, so there was essentially no damage.
Starting 2022-04-27 22:18:22, this site came under hostile traffic from a China Telecom residential broadband line in Jinjiang District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Here's the post-incident breakdown. Please browse this site normally and politely.
Webmasters know Alexa well. It has long focused on worldwide website ranking stats — alongside the old Google PageRank, Alexa rank was one of the metrics we used to judge whether a site was successful. Now Alexa is shutting down.
In software design and development you can't avoid dealing with text. A designer hands over a mockup, the developer eyedroppers the color and hardcodes it — then the day you change the theme or background, the result is horrendous. Here's what I've learned about text color.
This post walks through installing OpenWRT (LEDE) on x86_64 hardware — a.k.a. flashing it. x86_64 means a 64-bit x86 CPU, common in industrial PCs. Consumer wireless routers use different chips, so first check whether the chip platform supports OpenWRT, then build an image for that platform. Images are not interchangeable.
My last post covered building OpenWRT (LEDE) manually. Building yourself gives more freedom, but it means paying for a server. Is there a free one? GitHub Actions Workflows lets you compile OpenWRT (LEDE) for free, and it's fast — the default config builds in about an hour.
I bought a small industrial PC and started playing with soft routers. Here's my write-up so the next person can skip the pitfalls I hit. This post covers building OpenWRT (LEDE) yourself; follow-ups will cover automating the build with GitHub Actions Workflows and installing the x86 soft router system.
