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1. Reverse engineering the CAN messages for a BMW F Series Gear Selector 2023-03-03

   tags: editor/vim, embedded, programming/python, programming/python/ipython, programming/rust, reverse-engineering

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   Article Series:

   • https://www.projectgus.com/2022/06/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-one-failures/
   • https://www.projectgus.com/2022/06/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-two-breakthrough/
   • https://www.projectgus.com/2022/07/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-three-success/

   Supporting Repository:

   • https://github.com/projectgus/car_hacking
   • https://github.com/projectgus/car_hacking/tree/main/bmw_gear_selector

   Related Projects:

   • https://github.com/tenderlove/initial-v
2. (A few) Ops Lessons We All Learn The Hard Way 2023-02-18

   tags: cloud, network/dns, programming/shell, sysadmin

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   28. Blocking TCP port 53 traffic leads to very strange failures. Don't.
   29. The source you're looking at is not the code running in production.
   30. "Prod" is just another name for "staging".

3. Netflix/chaosmonkey: Chaos Monkey is a resiliency tool that helps applications tolerate random instance failures. 2018-03-26

   tags: chaos, infrastructure, netflix, quality, random, scaling, server

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   • https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
   • https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/netflix-attacks-own-network-with-chaos-monkey-and-now-you-can-too/
   • https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/netflix-chaos-monkey-upgraded-1d679429be5d
   • https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/chaos-engineering-upgraded-878d341f15fa
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Monkey
4. Sphinx, apidoc and Django 2018-01-28

   tags: documentation, documentation/sphinx, framework/django, programming/api, programming/html, programming/python

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   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34461088/sphinx-apidoc-on-django-build-html-failure-on-django-core-exceptions-appregistr
   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19037649/using-sphinxs-sphinx-apidoc-utility-to-autogenerate-documentation-from-python-c
   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46375983/sphinx-apidoc-strange-output-for-django-app-models-py
   • http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/man/sphinx-apidoc.html
   • https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/2095
   • https://samnicholls.net/2016/06/15/how-to-sphinx-readthedocs/
   • http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/napoleon.html
5. Chaos Engineering - O'Reilly Media 2017-08-22

   tags: chaos, cloud, distributed, infrastructure, linux, netflix, network, sysadmin

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   With so many interacting components, the number of things that can go wrong in a distributed system is enormous. You’ll never be able to prevent all possible failure modes, but you can identify many of the weaknesses in your system before they’re triggered by these events. This report introduces you to Chaos Engineering, a method of experimenting on infrastructure that lets you expose weaknesses before they become a real problem.

6. FS#54563 : [cabal-install] hackage packages with custom Setup.hs cause linker failure 2017-07-09

   tags: compiler, linux/archlinux, programming/haskell, programming/library

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   • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell
7. /r/linux - Gitlab is down: notes on the incident (and why you should always check backups) 2017-02-02

   tags: database, database/postgresql, failure, linux, recovery, replication, source-code-management/git, source-code-management/gitlab, sysadmin, tale

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   https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/02/gitlabcom_has_found_and_restored_from_an_accidental_backup/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5rmhwg/gitlabcom_luckily_found_lost_data_on_a_staging/

8. Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB - Spin up issue 2014-08-24

   tags: disk, drive, hard, hardware, issue

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   http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/288005-32-seagate-barracuda-st2000dm001-good-drives http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/293847-32-possible-failure-seagate-barracuda-sata-st2000dm001

   http://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.net/home/ http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Download http://www.seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/barracuda/

9. Bill Bailey - U2 Failure - Part Troll - YouTube 2013-08-23

   tags: bailey, bill, delay, humour, parody, u2

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