Notices by Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)

@aral @noybeu Isn't it a bad advice? If you delete your account, a bad guy could register an account with the same identifier, and use (and waste) your reputation.

Next, you learn that routers are subterranean ("routeurs souterrains" in french).

#BGP

Now, you know what #BGP means.

@pixelfed "by proving proper action was taken" Is it the mandatory solution for a dispute? Sometimes, the right action is to do nothing, for instance if the reporting was groundless.

A collection of stupid password rules from many Web sites. Funny (or scaring). https://dumbpasswordrules.com/

Don't forget to change your DNA after this breach. https://www.rawstory.com/millions-of-dna-tests-leaked-after-hackers-breach-company-s-forgotten-database/

OK, let's start tooting about #FOSDEM in english.

"FOSDEM flu is real" (even before COVID-19)

Network is safe: only #IPv6 (with NAT64 and DNS64, so dig @8.8.8.8 won't work)

The network suffers a lot. Expect intermittent tooting.

OSI birthday at #FOSDEM. No cakes distributed in the room :-(

"Open source" [wrong and stupid and marketing] label was created by Christine Peterson 3 february 1998.

I discover the term "fauxpen source" for software claiming to be open source but lying.

#capitalism #marketing

#BLOOM is a transformer model (like "Open"AI's GPT-3 but free). Anyone knows the URL?
#AI #machineLearning #transformer

Now, an US-libertarian call for less regulation on data mining so we can train "open source" AI systems.

Let's train the AI on all the conversations of the fediverse.

This is normal #FOSDEM

Now, #DNS devroom at #FOSDEM.

Without DNS, we would have no Internet, so pay us beers.

There are still seats available!

#NobodyLikesDNS

The room is now full, let's start.

Parsing zone files really fast by Jeroen Koekkoek, who will try to parse .com during his talk.

#DNS

.com is 160 Mdomains and 24 GB.

@pb's eu.org is almost as large (this was a troll)

#DNS

First step to speed parsing: drop Lex and Yacc (too slow and too general for DNS zone file parsing).

Next step, preventing the CPU pipeline to stall (bubbles - NOP - stall the flow.)

So, the parser is very fast but also very specialized. If IETF adds things to the zone file syntax, the parser is doomed.

https://github.com/NLnetLabs/simdzone