- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
The author is on Mastodon under the handle @[email protected]
(Also, their contact info on that site is outdated and links to an older profile, which thankfully refers the viewer to the new one)
Reminds me of dev.null as an e-mail address, but perhaps the service is more useful(?). I had access to the back-end of the mail server in question and it literally had
/dev/nullin the configuration.And yes, it ate any e-mails sent to it.
This is so beautiful
Its also incredibly fast.
Does
/dev/nullsupport sharding?If you use VMs, yeah
Cloudfare, OTOH, is not an ACID compliant database.
I love that half the links i click on right now are just cloudflare errors, really loving the consequences of a centralised internet
archive link while cf remains down꧇ https://archive.ph/pmW1t
and then everything started working again(at least where I am)
Cached version, while Cloudflare is down: https://archive.is/20251024040409/https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/
The CF outage has the huge benefit of clearly showing who claims to be technical but is dumb enough to host behind CF lol





