Many years ago a substantially sized OSS groups' forum software (maybe KDE or Qt? it was a long time ago) was accidentally including user email addresses in the non-user-visible html tags of forum pages.

Web scanners though aren't people, and easily noticed them, thus building up a database of email addresses to spam people.

It was discovered when a friend mentioned that one of their uniquely generated email addresses was being used by spammers. Similar to this post.

So, we got in contact with the forum people to let them know, and they tracked down + fixed the problem.

Perhaps a similar thing is happening to the article author, rather than purposely malicious behaviour?

> ... doing a mustard bath.

So many questions...

American, English, or Dijon?

*Sponsored by Heinz? ;)

Blind spot?

Yeah. Things like "Complete results, architectural decisions, and runnable code below." is literally how AI outputs stuff, so I'd expect the post was AI written too. :(

Was this one of the font's they tried?

https://opendyslexic.org

> At least with Meta you can find someone on a forum like Swapd who will take a small bribe ...

That sounds like its own kind of problems. (!)

> and the brand harm is inconsequential

That's the thing though. Google have destroyed their brand through these kinds of actions, over many years.

> It will be more interesting to talk about those applications if and when they are found.

Redis recommend disabling hugepages: https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/managemen...

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Actually, looks like they changed the log warning to be more specific, as it's just the "always" setting which seems to cause Redis grief?

https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/3895

By "those applications" I'm talking about other applications affected by this regression. There are several apps in addition to Redis that recommend limiting the transparent huge page configuration. (Some of them recommend using explicit huge pages instead.) But it's quite possible none of them are affected by this regression, as it may be particular to apps using spinlocks. (Certainly the new rseq API mentioned in the thread is targeted at spinlock users.) It seems equally possible to me that some spinlock-using app has a regression irrespective of huge pages.

Some software clearly wants hugepages disabled, so it's not always the slam dunk people seem to be making it out to be.

ie Redis:

https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/managemen...

How does this not look like the Iranian military literally has the US military running away scared?

It's super surprising to see, considering the reputation the US has built over the years + it's not like they have a lack of war experience.

Thus the "looks like they're running scared" thing.