There are lots of reasons to use really low TTLs, but most are a temporary need. Most of the times I had to set low TTLs for records were for hardware migration projects where services were getting new IP addresses. But in a well managed shop this should always be temporary. The TTL would be set low the day before the change, then set back to a normal value the day after the change. I feel the author is correct in that permanently setting low TTLs just covers up a lack of proper planning and change management.

The only thing off the top of my head that I can think absolutely requires a permanently low TTL is DNS based global load balancing for high uptime applications. But I’m sure there are other uses. I agree that the vast majority of things do not need a low TTL on their DNS record.

I seem to remember reading that what Trinity did in the opening scenes of The Matrix before the police busted in was actually doing a real exploit. So it got done properly at least once!

You would get thrown in jail, rightfully, for doing this once.

Corporation does it by the truckload and they are politely told to please stop, if they don’t mind.

Not even the trivial, meaningless fines we’re used to reading about.

This world is broken.

Your phone company is selling this data. Your tax dollars are then used to spy on you. But let’s place the blame with the enablers. If the data wasn’t being sold, ICE couldn’t buy it with your money.

Privacy is a myth in the United States.

I’m trying to figure out why someone would do that when the internet is 85% free porn?

Stop. You’re interfering with his sense of superiority.

Something any (real, trained, educated) developer who has even touched AI in their career could have told you. Without a 3 month study.

Ground Control (released in 2000) had the coolest artillery units of any RTS I ever played. And I pretty much played them all. The units fired in a long ballistic trajectory that was just really awesome to watch. And IIRC massing the units and firing at a target would make the artillery blanket the area, not all just hit the same place you clicked.

Good luck! You aren’t the joke, they are. Never forget that.

Have you considered cutting contact? I have a very toxic parent that I had to do that with and it did wonders for my mental health afterward. People like that don’t deserve to be in your life.

hugs

Help desk guy caught jerking off at his desk by a female employee, which he had apparently been doing for a while without a whole lot of cleanup, further investigation uncovered.

His keyboard, mouse, desk, floor mat, and chair were disposed of as hazmat. Monitor and PC were e-cycled.

Never. It’s a malware vector.