Date
7pm, Wednesday, 14 May 2025
Topic 1/2: Infiniband Demonstration
Speaker: Stephen Worthington
Comparing 40 Gbit/s Infiniband and 2.5 Gbit/s Ethernet between two PCs.
Topic 2/2: Self-hosting, self-defense
Speaker: Tom Ryder
Through March and April this year, Tom’s cgit instance was getting hammered with requests by what looked like an enormous botnet of nearly three million IPs, each making only one or two requests, crippling the server and making conventional IP address blocking impossible. He’ll run through the whole sordid story, and talk about how to mitigate attacks on self-hosters by a new generation of threats.