The day my ping took countermeasures

[signa11]

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-day-my-ping-took-countermeasures/

[zigzag312]

I'll start appending “taking countermeasures” to all of my error messages.

“The username or password is incorrect, taking countermeasures!”

“There is insufficient disk space to complete operation, taking countermeasures!”

[T3OU-736 → zigzag312]

Another good one to use is "cowardly refusing to continue."

[NoZebra120vClip]

He made that sound awfully complicated.

Time of day in Linux is easy; it's as easy as naming things, cache invalidation, and off by two errors.

[nunez]

This is a great deep dive. I knew that message had something to do with the system clock being slightly off (I saw it often while using ping in containers) but never thought to go deeper. I also didn't know about vdso; that's awesome.