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- Comment on Gatekeeper: The first open-source DDoS system. Has anyone tried mass hosting this as a group? 1 day ago:
Holy setup batman. Was thinking it was going to be another container I spin up, but it’s enabling kernel modules, needs IOMMU, needs a ton of setup and then it looks like you still have to compile it? For now at least that’s above my needs
- Comment on Creator of Original Thomas the Tank Engine Mod for Skyrim Puts Thomas in Morrowind in Defiance of 'Legal Threats' 2 days ago:
Lawyers and marketers who refuse to see nuance and view everything as a potential threat
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 3 days ago:
Right? If he doesn’t like it he can just go make his own store with all the AI he wants…
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 3 days ago:
but the vast majority of crawlers don’t care to do that. That’s a very specific implementation for this one problem. I actually did work at a big scraping farm, and if they encounter something like this,they just give up. It’s not worth it to them. That’s where the “worthiness” check is, you didn’t bother to do anything to gain access.
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 3 days ago:
That’s counting on one machine using the same cookie session continuously, or they code up a way to share the tokens across machines. That’s now how the bot farms work
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 4 days ago:
I was a single server with only me and 2 others or so, and then saw that I had thousands of requests per minutes at times! Absolutely nuts! My cloud bill was way higher. Adding anubis and it dropped down to just our requests, and bills dropped too. Very very strong proponent now.
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 4 days ago:
This dance to get access is just a minor annoyance for me, but I question how it proves I’m not a bot. These steps can be trivially and cheaply automated.
I don’t think the author understands the point of Anubis. The point isn’t to block bots completely from your site, bots can still get in. The point is to put up a problem at the door to the site. This problem, as the author states, is relatively trivial for the average device to solve, it’s meant to be solved by a phone or any consumer device.
The actual protection mechanism is scale, the scale of this solving solution is costly. Bot farms aren’t one single host or machine, they’re thousands, tens of thousands of VMs running in clusters constantly trying to scrape sites. So to them, a calculating something that trivial is simple once, very very costly at scale. Say calculating the hash once takes about 5 seconds. Easy for a phone. Let’s say that’s 1000 scrapes of your site, that’s now 5000 seconds to scrape, roughly an hour and a half. Now we’re talking about real dollars and cents lost. Scraping does have a cost, and having worked at a company that does professionally scrape content they know this. Most companies will back off after trying to load a page that takes too long, or is too intensive - and that is why we see the dropoff in bot attacks. It’s that it’s not worth it for them to scrape the site anymore.
So for Anubis they’re “judging your value” by saying “Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is to access this site?” For consumer it’s a fraction of a fraction of a penny in electricity spent for that one page load, barely noticeable. For large bot farms it’s real dollars wasted on my little lemmy instance/blog, and thankfully they’ve stopped caring.
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 4 days ago:
Check out Anubis. If you have a reverse proxy it is very easy to add, and for the bots stopped spamming after I added it to mine
- Comment on The Steam Deck LCD is 20% off, and I'm still not buying one because it's crap for RTS 5 days ago:
Hey look! I found something that clearly it wasn’t designed for but I’m going to make a while rage bait article about it anyway!
- Comment on Looking for a good wiki based off of a git repo 6 days ago:
This looks great! Thank you for the recommendation!
- Comment on Looking for a good wiki based off of a git repo 6 days ago:
Interesting, had no idea!
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- Comment on !@$& Homelab Networking 1 week ago:
My mind went to this one
- Comment on One hour into Gears 5 and I feel its a lot better than 4 1 week ago:
Mass Effect 1? Trash, not enough weapons
- Comment on One hour into Gears 5 and I feel its a lot better than 4 1 week ago:
Some would say weapons aren’t the only thing that makes a game good
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Once there people will view moving as a hassle, but I understand what you’re thinking. Mastodon I think did it better with “suggesting” an instance to you, and Lemmy has gotten better about it. For friends and family I think the best way is basically telling them which server to use. Go here, sign up
- Comment on The Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag remake will release in March 2026, according to the latest whispers 1 week ago:
Most of the game was honestly boring, nostalgia takes over and we remember the sweet coastal raids and our ship, but does anyone remember the story? I think it’ll be the same here. Everyone buys, gets bored 4 hours in, and puts it down
- Comment on Bad experience on selfhosting nextcloud 1 week ago:
It’s out of date, and in desperate need of a rewrite. PHP might have been an okay choice 15 years ago, but no one in their right mind should be using PHP for modern server development. (Yes I’m calling out Pixelfed too). With so many languages and frameworks, that’s probably one of the worst right now.
Then it was proven that they don’t really get modern infrastructure either, as their docker containers depend on stateful code, with combinations of environment variables and php files that need to be stored in volumes, and then plugins which are also stateful - meaning that on new updates they need to go through an “update” process. This is directly opposite of good practice as docker containers should be 100% immutable and be able to run just by using docker run. They also have required volume mounts scattered throughout the OS, it was just never designed with containers in mind.
I can’t recommend nextcloud right now, it’s incredibly brittle and slow.
- Comment on Bracing for impact 1 week ago:
Agree with others, if you try to do a replica it’s going to be very inefficient, and your costs will be high. You’re looking for a backup, then just nightly/weekly you perform your backups. Any blob storage then will do, just work out what pricing works for you. Just plan out how you’d do a restore in case everything came crashing down - from ground up how would you bring your services back online?
- Comment on Do I need a NAS ? 1 week ago:
HDD enclosure is a fine way to start, as long as you know it has limitations. Eventually you’ll probably need more storage, and it won’t scale. That being said, you can get 26TB hard drives now, it’ll be a while. Just make sure you plan out how to back it up. Remember the rule - if you can’t afford to buy a backup then you can’t afford to do the project. Make sure you have backups in mind.
If you decide to upgrade to a full NAS solution later also remember that during that migration you probably will need to use new hard drives while migrating as your current ones will need to be copied from to the new NAS, meaning you will probably end up with a few redundant drives. Not a huge thing, but there will be no “in-place” upgrade. It all depends on where you want your homelab to go in the future.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 2 weeks ago:
Same, I recently looked for vehicles and this was an option we desperately wanted. We have a great ev now that’s tiny and efficient, but a small truck would have been great
- Comment on Satisfactory gets optimizations, and improved Steam Deck support in patch 1.1.1.7 2 weeks ago:
Nice, I’ll have to check it out on my deck! Just had th x button issue myself
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It works surprisingly well on Linux
- Comment on BioWare are "focused exclusively" on the next Mass Effect, says exec producer, along with a Krogan teaser 3 weeks ago:
Who the last 5 people working there after the layoffs?
- Comment on Sodium-Ion batteries could lower grid energy storage costs by 80% For cities | Edenicity 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been waiting for sodium for a whole home battery. Not great for cars but for homes they seem great
- Comment on A Japanese association that reps publishers like Square Enix has called on OpenAI to stop training Sora on Japanese media 3 weeks ago:
Oh well they called for it. So it’ll stop.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, I assumed by posting about it that you were passionate for this change. If you don’t care that’s fine - but I don’t know why you posted about it then.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 4 weeks ago:
Yes, that is my proposal. Many people complain saying there are better ways to host instances but no one is willing to practice what they preach and actually do it. If you want to see change in the fediverse then you should step up and do it.
New users have a choice when joining, you should make a new instance and convince the new users why they should join. I would support a toggle on join-lemmy which lets them see what servers are geographically close, but that would be irrelevant before you set up an instance to pave the way.
If you “can’t be bothered” then obviously you aren’t as passionate about it as you claim to be.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 4 weeks ago:
Again, the proposed solution stands. Set up your own instance and prove us all wrong, show us how to make this local place where people talk to each other in their physical community.
There, that better? Show us how to do it, if it’s popular more will do it.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 4 weeks ago:
And I believe this logical fallacy is Moral Equivalence.
We’re not comparing here, I’m not biting on the rage bait. Again, the proposed solution stands. Set up your own instance and prove us all wrong, show us how to make this utopia you promise.
