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  • And, interestingly, they lost $91 million last year. If the CEO had instead earned $100 million last year, the company have made a multi-million dollar profit (if only just). If it had been $10 million (still way overpaid for any single person, I'd argue), they'd be nearing the hundreds-of-millions-per-year profit scale.

    I'll never understand companies paying their CEOs hundreds of millions while they're losing money hand over fist...

  • It's nice in theory, but I've had very little luck using it for the last few days.

    I wouldn't be surprised if whatever instances it picks to send people to are soon afterwards rate limited because demand is too high relative to supply.

  • If this is something you run into often, it's likely still only for a limited number of servers? ssh and scp both respect .ssh/config, and I suspect (but haven't tested) that sftp does too. If you add something like this to that file:

     
        
    Host host1 host2
      Port 8080
    
      

    then SSH connections to hosts named in that first line will use port 8080 by default and you can leave off the -p/-P when contacting those hosts. You can add multiple such sections if you have other hosts that require different ports, of course.

  • Aurora is no longer maintained, but it still works just fine. It's a Windows app, so not web-accessible or anything, but it's free. It only contains the SRD content by default (probably for legal reasons), but there's at least one publicly-accessible elements repository for it that you can find using your favorite search engine.

  • If they have the root access typically needed to reboot a server1 they could also just wipe the logs without rebooting.

    1: GUIs typically have a way to reboot without such privileges, but those are typically not installed on machines just used as servers.

  • In fact, unless you post your domain somewhere online or its registration is available somewhere, it’s unlikely anyone will ever visit your server without a direct link provided by you or someone else who knows it.

    If you use HTTPS with a publicly-trusted certificate (such as via Let's Encrypt), the host names in the certificate will be published in certificate transparency logs. So at least the "main" domain will be known, as well as any subdomains you don't hide by using wildcards.

    I'm not sure whether anyone uses those as a list of sites to automatically visit, but I certainly would not count on nobody doing so.

    That just gives them the domain name though, so URLS with long randomly-generated paths should still be safe.