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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely; if I was a company, or hosting something important, or something that was intended for the general public, then I’d agree.

  But I’m just an idiot hosting whimsical stuff from my basement, and 99% of it is only of interest for my friends. I know ~everyone in my target audience, and I know that none of them use a VPN for general-purpose browsing.

  As it is, I don’t mind keeping the door open to the general public, but nothing of value will be lost if I need to pull the plug on some more ASN’s to preserve my bandwidth. For example when a guy hopping through a VPN in Sweden decides to download the same zip file thousands of times, wasting terabytes of traffic over a few hours (this happened a week ago).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and filtering malicious traffic is more important to me than you visiting my services, so I guess that makes us even :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Week in Self-Hosted (21 March 2025)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve started blocking entire AS from my servers; since I only expect/want traffic from home ISPs it’s kinda alright, but still… man

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you like to transfer large files between friends across the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  HFSv2 (the windows exe) has publically known unfixed vulnerabilities! Please upgrade to HFSv3 (nodejs, crossplatform). I’m also maintaining a list of other alternatives; github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/…/versus.md

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any OMV + SnapRAID/MergerFS users here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You may encounter some confusing errors with MergerFS; depending on your config, any software using SQLite may crash with a scary-sounding “disk I/O error”. The quickstart has more info, trapexit.github.io/mergerfs/quickstart/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interest in a website containing the docker-compose files of projects listed in the awesome-selfhosted list⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  for a selfhosted service which is a single self-contained process in a single container, is there still a benefit to using compose, and if so, what would that be? genuine question since I’m not providing a compose example for a foss service I made.