The author is on Mastodon under the handle @noqqe@tilde.zone
(Also, their contact info on that site is outdated and links to an older profile, which thankfully refers the viewer to the new one)
Reminds me of dev.null as an e-mail address, but perhaps the service is more useful(?). I had access to the back-end of the mail server in question and it literally had
/dev/nullin the configuration.And yes, it ate any e-mails sent to it.
This is so beautiful
Its also incredibly fast.
Does
/dev/nullsupport sharding?If you use VMs, yeah
I love that half the links i click on right now are just cloudflare errors, really loving the consequences of a centralised internet
Cloudfare, OTOH, is not an ACID compliant database.
Cached version, while Cloudflare is down: https://archive.is/20251024040409/https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/
archive link while cf remains down꧇ https://archive.ph/pmW1t
The CF outage has the huge benefit of clearly showing who claims to be technical but is dumb enough to host behind CF lol
