A funny thing happened to me yesterday. I sat down to write the igotw, and I already had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to say so it was coming pretty easily. Keyboard’s clattering, I’m In the Zone, right? I got about 3/4 of the way into the post and I started to get a bit suspicious; this is an amusing little story that I think about often and that I’ve told before, sure, but…is this too easy? I did a little digging around and as it turns out I’ve already written nearly this exact same post in 2019. (I mean, almost verbatim.)
So. I stopped plagiarizing myself, walked away from my laptop, and decided to try again in the morning.
A friend suggested that I go ahead and post it anyway, perhaps comparing/contrasting the writing style (or something)…and I may do that at some point in the future. For now I’m going to go to that trusty old standby: UA.
Let’s see what kind of goodies we’ve got here.
First up is an nice little graph demonstrating a quota issue caused by a hot key. What - or rather who - was this hot key? None other than Sir Richard Branson…and if you’re not clear on why he might’ve gotten so popular all of a sudden on 2021-07-11 then you likely haven’t been paying attention to the news.
Next up is a fun one from a GCN_ that was created when Clark Haskinsdecided to shave off his glorious beard._
These next two are a “matched set” that Vishnu C N sent my way - a pair of complementary graphs contrasting idle CPU with loopback interface traffic.
_…and last but certainly not least: a graph that helped detect a Zephyr scraping attack. Many thanks to Ryan Dohertyfor pointing out the __Abuse team’s _ writeup on how this was detected, investigated, and ultimately led to over 74K fake accounts being restricted.
