#spof — Public Fediverse posts

Looks like Flatpak discovery will move from one mostly generally accepted hub to a gazillion of repos since the performative LLM complaints have befallen the possible single hub. (Partially half-understandable arguments, partially performative fluff for my taste)

Which is ok as it triggers competition that might lead to better outcomes. (bazaar vs cathedral and all, rite? 😏 )
And removes a possible single point of failure.

Now what I'd like to see is an approach that does discovery of those repos and enables search across those repos without a single point of failure. As e.g. a single, centrally hosted index for repos to register to would be.

Flatpak already uses a reverse-dns-namespace structure internally. Anything that would leverage that? Wouldn't help with enumeration though.

Something something DHT/Gossip/...? (as the cool thing from the past)

Clearly a problem that will arise with more of the expectable decentralized systems that need uniform discovery and search.

What's the Fedis wisdom on current academic approaches that might be interesting around this?
Or bastardized routing tech, yet another idea on how to twist DNS into a pretzel, etc? Dare I say: Blockchain (as the unpopular thing before the LLMs 🤣 )

Throw you best Arxiv posts etc. at me. I'm just curious about the state-of-the-art techn for now, all smirk and sarcasm aside.

#discovery #search #decentralized #routing #dns #fedimeta #flathub #dht #cooltechfromthepast #llm #selfhosting #fossdrama #spof #singlepointoffailure #arxiv #academicchatter #academic #computerscience

@PC_Fluesterer Auf jeden Fall unprofessionell, schlecht designed, schlecht gemacht und sowas von nicht zeitgemäß. Dabei weiß man doch schon lange, wie man hohe Verfügbarkeit, Redundanz und Ausfallsicherheit in der IT architekturell erlangt und, daß diese Komponenten nicht optional sind.

#itsec #performance #ausfallsicherheit #redundanz #failover #fallback #verfügbarkeit #devops #itarchitektur #togaf #rechenzentrum #spof #singlepointoffailure #bottleneck

GitHub: The Distributed Single Point of Failure.

#spof #distributedsystems #github

[en] Cloud outages: "#Concentration is the real risk" - Prof Doug #Jacobson

For example, #DNS ... has quietly become a single point of failure ... DNS is not alone.

#Cloud outages are getting more #expensive. "#Centralization magnifies these costs."

"... concentration means that a single configuration error, routing issue or attack can ripple across much of the web."

https://theconversation.com/why-cloud-service-outages-ripple-across-the-internet-and-the-economy-272241

#cybersecurity #spof #outage #crowdstrike #iastate

🔥 Internet s’est encore cassé la gueule à cause d’un seul acteur. Bienvenue dans la monoculture logicielle et ses #SPOF à large échelle. #Cloudflare, rappel utile : vos données sont entre leurs mains… et celles de Donald 🇺🇸.
💥 Ces derniers tps, tous ont merdé : #AWS, #Microsoft, #Meta, #Google... #GAFAM.
⚠️ Les solutions libres et décentralisées ? Oui, ça demande un effort, mais les boîtes acceptent de galérer pour la compta ou le bâti, mais pas pour le numérique, encore jugé comme "non vital" 🤦

Signal waarschuwing die meevalt, maar wel te denken geeft
In de Signal app verscheen bij een account de waarschuwing “Je veiligheidsnummer met [naam] is veranderd”. Volgens de supportpagina kan er dan van alles mis zijn, dus oplett
https://www.niamat.nl/blog/signal-waarschuwing-die-meevalt-maar-wel-te-denken-geeft/
#Algemeen #security #spof

If it's not #decentralized, #federated and #FLOSS it's not worthed. Like #Matrix or #XMPP, communications should not depend on a #SPOF in some #BigTech silo.

https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/115405688391316671

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) was live but we had other bussiness to attend to:

* Use a client with mirrors support now!
* #OSUOSL is back
* #Fennec issue explainer
* More metrics niceness
* 10 years of #Disroot
+ 12 new apps
& 135 updates
- 3 apps archived
~ 1 app downgraded

Will you be my #SPOF? https://f-droid.org/2025/08/28/twif.html

#Oups : acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org est dans les choux, donc le renouvellement du certificat de cherche.shaftinc.fr qui s'est lancé cette nuit plante

cf : https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/687e8d62b8a4e804fad85799

#SPOF

@delta Always nice(r) to be federated... #signal is a fantastic alternative, but not the ultimate solution, being a #SPOF . what's the difference between this and #matrix , for my understanding?

Economies & societies (nationstates) are #systems. As such, they naturally avoid single points of control, because they're also single points of failure [SPOC/ #SPOF]. That means it only takes 1 error for the whole system to crash, 1 well placed attack or blackmail, etc. #EvidenceBasedGovernance

Today I have decided to replace a single-point-of-failure with a different single-point-of-failure. #SPOF #sysadmin

@bohwaz agreed,
#spof my love...

First up is this lecture by Mike Menzel who led the "System Engineering" efforts of the James Webb Telescope. #jwst

Infosec and CS in general loves to focus on failures, but I think we should focus more on successes. And the JWST is a extremely impressive success.

In this lecture he gives a overview of how they made it a success, even with so many things that could go wrong.

I mean the JWST had 344 "single points of failure"!? And yet it worked, perfectly, above expectation even.

Just go watch it, but do it when you have time to digest it, it's long.

It's currently at 845 views and 20 👍, which is criminally low for content this great. Let's try make it trend shall we?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceAEhkfRhTU

#youtube #infosec #systemsengineering #spof

@michaelgemar @kfury @tchambers

Newman. 😤 #SPOF

heise online: Gar nicht so dezentral: Hälfte der Accounts im Fediverse bei Hetzner gehostet https://www.heise.de/news/Gar-nicht-so-dezentral-Haelfte-der-Accounts-im-Fediverse-bei-Hetzner-gehostet-9597389.html
#spof

@feld @kravietz @PlaneSailingGames @GossiTheDog @vpz

ok, now I got to understand that the Keychain is an encrypted data structure stored somewhere (it could be Apple's key-value store). Reading this story I gather that a whole thing is encrypted with a symmetric wrapping key. This wrapping key can be either obtained by the syncing identity or derived from the recovery code.
So devices exchange the key exchange key among themselves during pairing? Could recovery code be seen as a #SPOF?

@kahianyaaa En fait, ce serait une panne de CloudFlare (mais Discord resterait accessible depuis un navigateur Web).

Affaire à suivre. Mais encore une fois : (pas) merci le #SPoF ! 😡

Tourcoing rayée de la carte !

Ou plus précisément, impossible de récupérer les IPs des 2 NS de tourcoing.fr (ns3.rmi.fr et ns4.rmi.fr si j'en crois ce que me dit la zone parente de tourcoing.fr) #DNS #SPOF

https://piaille.fr/@shaft/110985065485586407

Encore un coup des hackers russo-chinois du Panama nord-coréen

@le_bleu @VoronoV Confirmé : aucun des serveurs faisant autorité ne répond. Ils ne sont que deux, dans le même /24.

#DNS #SPOF @shaft

dass dieses #Ikea #Dirigera-Ding ein #SPoF für all meine Sensoren ist, damit könnte ich evtl. leben.

Aber dass es auch wirklich, real oft ausfällt und dann einfach scheiß macht, bis ich es neustarte, das nervt schon sehr.

@bortzmeyer vu que c'est (encore) un coup de #SPOF, ça peut se rajouter

@DaniEhm @hacks4pancakes

Like #journalists who are, slowly, migrating over here to #web3, governments need a longer and longer cycle to go through the approval and getting the correct #intern with management support and backing to empower said #intern is the key. I.T.'s a culture thing and iF it's not a turnkey solution a lot of government stuff just doesn't bother, imo.

Solutions for exist for clients that can side post the same to both networks exist which will help make the transition but even THAT requires #management buy in just do even do THAT so... I.T.'s an independent #leadership & #vision gap right now.

Helping management understand why this is important ( #SPOF™ #SinglePointOfFailure™ , #OligarchManipulationPlatform, #MLTL, etc ) requires them to have an understanding the fall of centralized one stop choke point platforms like #Meta #Instagram #WhatsApp #DelistedTWTR etc by taking back the Machine Learning Manipulation Timelines™ #MLMTL™ and get back to a chronological non-ML-TL #CNMLTL™.

The #fediverse is about to hit 11 million users soon. Most social media presence just redirects people to their web site anyways. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷

Oddly a Non-ML-TL use to be Twitter as an option. 🧐

Just my 2¢. 👀👀

#twitter was a #SPOF. As useful as it was for distribution of alerts and emergency info, we collectively allowed it to become a potentially deadly single point of failure… we collectively need to #rethink and #diversify our #information #delivery #systems for #PublicSafety

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/elon-musk-twitter-blue-natural-disaster-crisis-emergency-response/673209/

@jippi @WonderingDane @hekla @jeppe @maiathecyberwitch Ville det give mening at have et ekstra relay kørende, så relay.expressional.social ikke bliver et #spof? Jeg sætter gerne noget op også, hvis det hjælper på stabilieten.

Haha le login de #Rambox qui est HS depuis hier soir et qui empêche d'utiliser son compte.

https://auth.rambox.app/rambox

Le bon côté des solutions centralisées (de manière excessive et inutile en plus) et qui génèrent des gros #SPOF.

C'est vraiment parce que c'est la seule appli qui fonctionne avec l'OAuth de la boîte que je l'utilise...

@martinsteiger @digiges @adfichter @rahel_estermann
Sehr interessanter Podcast. Die Schlussfolgerungen zum #skyguide Debakel sollten aber gut bedacht sein. #Risikoanalyse ist in modernen Regulatorien zurecht Match entscheidend. Cool wäre, wenn man mal reagieren würde bevor ein Ereignis eintritt. #y2k38 wird ein #SPoF in #KRITIS

@jasminakuhnke genau daher nennt man sowas auch #kritische #Infrastruktur #KRITS ... peinlich und zumal alle Anbieter Probleme haben also #SinglePointOfFailure #SPOF #störung