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It doesn't reflect well on their monitoring/on-call setup that everyone else was paged before them, assuming they are indeed unaware.

Perhaps the first they'll know of the problem is when they read it on HN


https://makebook.io/

It's pretty good so far


I also use pass and sync it with my android phone using OpenKeychain to manage GPG keys and PasswordStore as the actual password browser. Copy/pasting randomised passwords on both desktop and mobile is easy once these are set up.


Now that you've mentioned this I think it may become a theme, and rightly so. Perhaps a change in focus and a bit of reflection on the different business domains that I have experience in is in order.


Thanks for the input, really good points. The machine learning angle is interesting and something I'll look further into as I do have some undergrad maths experience.


Looks cool. Very similar to a service I built a few years ago: https://lanyard.fm which has setlist integration and even generated Spotify playlists of the setlist using live versions of tracks at one point. If you'd like to chat about any of the problems we faced let me know.

The site was never monetized, it was a side project between me and a couple of other guys. We struggled with data until it eventually dried up completely last year. To remedy that I've been working on a live music version of musicbrainz.org in my spare time although progress is slow. If anyone is interested in getting involved in that hit me up


Lanyard looks great, hadn't heard of it, will take a closer look though. I'm sure Jonny will be reaching out to chat with you :)


Lanyard looks impressive. I hadn't heard of it until today, but I will take a look around. I'll drop you a message through the site, would be good to talk.


Looking forward to it. I'm on twitter @slice_beans or you can find an email address on https://slicebeans.com/contact


Locust is really good, allows custom scripts for user behaviour, and works well spun up on multiple cloud instances http://locust.io/


Interestingly, this page is intercepted by my router which then just sends me a redirect to one of its settings pages. Odd.


Well now, that is interesting… deep packet inspection? or just a truly insane bug?

What router is it?


Here's the request and response from router: http://pastebin.com/e7rxLsGJ

The router itself is a BT Internet (UK) branded one. Not sure of the exact model but I'll try to find out...


I found some references online to something called "Smart Setup", which you can apparently turn of under Advanced Settings -> Home Network -> Smart Setup, but no idea what it actually does and why it intercepts random requests...


Besides the model number, can you also tell us the firmware version?


BT Home Hub 5 (Type A) Software version 4.7.5.1.83.8.204.1.11

But, false alarm anyway, nothing interesting is happening. The firmware had updated and reset parental control settings on the router. The domain is on some blacklist apparently so it was redirecting to a page to finalise parental control preferences.

Sorry it wasn't any more interesting than that.

Edit: the reason it took me a while to figure this out was that the settings page it was redirecting to was nothing to do with parental controls!


The HomeHub 5 is a Thomson (Technicolor) router, if I remember correctly.


So how did you figure it out?


I visited some other black listed sites <.< >.> and discovered the pattern, then dug around in the router settings to see what had changed. Disabling parental controls sorted it and I can now see the squirrel/chipmunk/unidentified rodent.

Lesson learned: just use a VPN.


> I visited some other black listed sites <.< >.>

Is that an ASCII representation of what I think it is? (a well known .cx site)


It was shifty eyes. But good imagination skills +1


I saw it as just a 'shifty-eyes' emoticon, but then again I don't know of said .cx-site so I maybe missing it.


aaisp - your life just became simpler.


the fact that it encodes "/" on a part of the url in a parameter, but not on another is a very good indication that whatever this 'feature' is doing is badly thought out and the implementation was done by the intern.


This pretty much describes the entire BT HomeHub firmware, to be honest.


"Deployed on one out of four residential gateways globally, Cisco Videoscape OpenRG is the industry's most widely used residential gateway software." -- Cisco

At least we know a little about the software issuing this redirect!


This intrigues me. I wonder why the router would be meddling in such affairs.


Another reason to use https, if you don't want routers filtering your website's content.


It probably validates Content-Type and X-Content-Type-Options


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