This has nothing to do with transport. Iranian drone strikes disabled a Qatari helium _production_ facility.

You should be able to make a killing placing commodity bets right now, because you have such crystal clear vision for the causal chain currently underway

What are your top positions? You will never need to work again!

Interesting bit from that article wrt to transport infrastructure:

"most distributors simply stick to the industry standard transport of Grade 5. That is why for and [sic] end user of helium, a lower grade can cost more than the higher grades."

Well-designed sitemaps and use of something like https://www.indexnow.org/ helps.

Cloudflare has Crawler Hints which works well IME: https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawler-hints-how-cloudflare-is-...

Do you know if cloudfront has anything like this?

Just out of curiosity, what adblocker? I read the Guardian a lot with uBlock Origin turned on, and I've never had issues.

Adblock Plus here

That's the problem, so switch to the superior uBlock origin :)

I've got the Android app and love it, as well as Knots 3D.

Most knot enthusiasts will already know about it, but in the analog world The Ashley Book of Knots is fantastic. Beautifully illustrated; the author, Clifford Ashley, was a marine painter and spent decades documenting almost 4,000 knots.

It is a wonderful catalog, but I don't find it to be as useful for learning to tie the actual knots as books by Budworth, Pawson, etc. (or Youtube, these days)

One of the cool aspects of knots for this audience is that they have a unix-like aspect where multiple individually-useful knots can be "piped" together, the example I like to use is the Trucker's Hitch:

https://www.animatedknots.com/truckers-hitch-knot

(which also can be tied in multiple ways, depending on which knots you combine to make it)

> The Ashley Book of Knots is fantastic.

Yup. Referring to knots by their ABoK numbers is also more practical than by their wildly varying names.

I use them both. I like Knots 3D better, but it's missing some knots that I use. No EStar stopper or Matthew Walker in Knots 3D, for example.

I can't tell much about your infrastructure, but memcached would probably increase that by several orders of magnitude. The NGINX module is pretty simple: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_memcached_module.htm...

Cloudflare with Cache-Control headers is even simpler if you're okay with adding Cloudflare as a dependency.

From an ASN lookup, it appears you're hosting on Oracle Cloud, so Cloudflare would also give you free data egress: https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/why-cdn-client...

Their Always-On feature would also help if Oracle has an outage.

I like the general idea, very lightweight and more likely to remain accessible when an emergency is overloading the mobile networks.

Thank you! I will implement this - the server code is in plain C with NGINX on top so I presume adding memached would be straightforward.

112 and 911 (US) work on almost every mobile phone anywhere in the world. It's part of the GSM/UMTS standard. 999 is supported with either no SIM card or a UK SIM card. See §7.1 here: https://www.ietf.org/lib/dt/documents/LIAISON/file562.pdf

They also don't require a phone to be activated in most countries. I believe there are some exceptions in EU countries, but in the US it just needs to have a working antenna and be in range of a tower.

It's not good as a first line of defense for failover, but with some client software and/or failure mechanisms there aren't any better approachs I'm aware of. Some of the software I administer doesn't understand multiple A/AAAA records.

And a BGP failure is a good example too. It doesn't matter how resilient the failover mechanisms for one IP are if the routing tables are wrong.

Agreed about some providers enforcing a larger one, though. DNS propagation is wildly inconsistent.

I have mine set low on some records because I want to be able to change the IP associated with specific RTMP endpoints if a provider goes down. The client software doesn't use multiple A records even if I provide them, so I can't use that approach; and I don't always have remote admin access to the systems in question so I can't just use straight IPs or a hostfile.