In our continuing saga, we spotlight yet another ID10T flying in the clouds of DigitalOcean on still another attempt to hack my DLCC website, whose content I removed last Halloween and left behind only a marker page with a link to this Tumblr account. They also looked for a DLCC WordPress account. I have never had, and never will have, a WordPress account.
Excuse me, Captain, you’re off course. “Second star to the right…and straight on till morning…” 😆
Yet another ID10T sailing the DigitalOcean finds “water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink” while traversing the vast void of nothingness where my DLCC website’s content hasn’t resided since last Halloween. Now, it consists only of a wee marker page with a link to this Tumblr account.
Psst, ID10T, your ship’s a little off course… 😆
“Yo, I told you (You can’t touch this) Why you standin’ there, man? (You can’t touch this) Yo, sound the bell, school’s in, sucker (You can’t touch this)” 😁
This hacking ID10T attempted to both read and post to my DLCC website, looking for WordPress and other Web-based data.
This ID10T was using a “droplet,” or Linux-based virtual machine (VM) on DigitalOcean’s cloud computing platform service.
Once again, my DLCC website has not had any content, save for a marker page with a link to this Tumblr account, since last Halloween. Hackers using DigitalOcean’s services have attempted to hack my DLCC website for years, to no avail. 👊
This ID10T’s read and post attempts were all unsuccessful. But, please, keep trying, fool. Attempts like these just highlight your ID10CY… 😆
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There’s a bit of a blind spot when working with CSS logical properties concerning shorthands. Miriam explains:
Logical properties are a great way to optimize our sites in advance, without any real effort.
But what if we want to set multiple properties at once? This is where shorthands like margin and padding become useful. But they are currently limited to setting physical dimension. Logical properties are great, but they still feel like a second-class feature of the language.
There are a few 2-value shorthands that have been implemented, like margin-block for setting both the -block-start and -block-endmargins. I find those extremely useful and concise. But the existing 4-value shorthands feel stuck in the past. It’s surprising that a size shorthand can’t set the inline-size, and the inset shorthand doesn’t include inset-block-start. Is there any way to update those shorthand properties so that they can be used to set logical dimensions?
She ends with the money question, whether we can do anything about it. We’re currently in a position of having to choose between supporting flow-relative terms like block-start and inline-start with longhand properties and the ergonomic benefits of writing shorthand properties that are evaluated as physical terms like top, bottom, left, and right. Those of us writing CSS for a while likely have the muscle memory to adapt accordingly, but it’s otherwise a decision that has real consequences, particularly for multi-lingual sites.
Note that Miriam says this is something the CSS Working Group has been working on since 2017. And there’s a little momentum to pick it up and do something about it. The first thing you can do is support Miriam’s work — everything she does with the CSS Working Group (and it’s a lot) is a labor of love and relies on sponsorships, so chipping in is one way to push things forward.
The other thing you can do is chime into Miriam’s proposal that she published in 2021. I think it’s a solid idea. We can’t simply switch from physical to flow-relative terms in shorthand properties without triggering compatibility issues, so having some sort of higher-level instruction for CSS at the top of the stylesheet, perhaps as an at-rule that specifies which “mode” we’re in.
<coordinate-mode> = [ logical | physical ] or [ relative | absolute ] or ...
@mode <coordinate-mode>; /* must come after @import and before any style rules */
@mode <coordinate-mode> <stylesheet>
selector
property: value !<coordinate-mode>;
Perhaps naming aside, it seems pretty reasonable, eh?
Overriding netplan config managed by cloud-init on an existing Digital Ocean Ubuntu droplet
(please excluse any bad formatting, still haven’t moved this away from tumblr…)
I saw a bunch of suggestions out there for doing this which have you entirely disable cloud-init’s management of the network settings. I didn’t want to do that, I just want to change the DNS servers away from DO’s default of Google’s DNS and to a local unbound service running on the droplet.
It’s easy enough to edit /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and set DNS= there, but that still leaves Google’s servers in the netplan config for the default interface which may be used as fallback.
Here’s the relevant part of the netplan config on a Ubuntu 24.04:
It doesn’t look like simply dropping a new network configuration in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/ will do what I want. It doesn’t seem to do anything at all (local configs run too early/late?), but even if it did, I’m also concerned it might overwrite the whole netplan config I’m trying to preserve. So instead, I’m going to use the runcmd directive to call netplan directly.
I added the following to /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-local-dns.cfg:
The reason I’m setting nameservers to null instead of setting nameservers.addresses directly is because “netplan set” will simply append when applied to a list.
$ resolvectl status … Link 2 (eth0) Current Scopes: DNS Protocols: +DefaultRoute -LLMNR -mDNS -DNSOverTLS DNSSEC=yes/supported Current DNS Server: 127.0.0.1 DNS Servers: 127.0.0.1 …
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to be fair, i probably shouldn’t have trusted a company that had existed for such a short amount of time, but they had some good deals that looked promising, and there were no huge red flags when i got set up with them. the site worked, i was able to do everything i needed quickly and easily, etc, but i really should’ve gone with a better-known and more established provider.
so i finally got the blog set up again (this time with digitalocean, i’m not making the same mistake as last time), and wasn’t too horribly affected by the deletion of backups (since i only had one post on the site, all my data is backed up to git, and i’m only using nginx and postgres so there’s not that much to configure), but it was definitely a bit of a hassle. i haven’t put back up my previous post, but i’ll probably do that today.
i’ll try have a post up soon detailing everything, hopefully it’ll be entertaining to read through :)
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