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A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees (go.theregister.com)
submitted 3 days ago by mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 74 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I always view the source of websites like this and this is one of the worst I've seen. 217 lines of code (including inline Javascript?!) and a Google tag for some reason, all to put the word YES in green on black.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

this made me mad so i made a single, ultra minimal html page in 5 minutes that you can just paste in your url box

data:text/html;base64,PCFkb2N0eXBlaHRtbD48Ym9keSBzdHlsZT10ZXh0LWFsaWduOmNlbnRlcjtmb250LWZhbWlseTpzYW5zLXNlcmlmO2JhY2tncm91bmQ6IzAwMDtjb2xvcjojMmYyPjxoMT5JcyBpdCBETlM/PC9oMT48cCBzdHlsZT1mb250LXNpemU6MTJyZW0+WWVz

source code:

<!doctypehtml><body style=text-align:center;font-family:sans-serif;background:#000;color:#2f2><h1>Is it DNS?</h1><p style=font-size:12rem>Yes
[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your website no longer uses DNS invalidating its use as a diagnostic tool lmao

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 1 points 1 day ago

i never thought about that. i assumed the first page was just a joke website like "days since last JavaScript framework" always being zero

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 29 points 3 days ago

Agreed, could be static HTML and a GIF.

Thanks, I won't click that link.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

I just did the same f'ing thing and came here to write your comment!

well done.

[–] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did not think of doing that.

I guess i never expected anyone to have a fcking JavaScript on a simple page as that

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

lmao, considering some of the meaningless comments there i'm starting to think it's "vibe coded".

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

There have been 209 versions of that site

https://web.archive.org/web/20250331043558/https://www.isitdns.com/

it predated AI, but likely seems to have had some AI cleanup.

If it was truly just vibecoded, the comments would usually be on every element.