From what I’ve been hearing that hasn’t been working anymore.

They gonna start sinking random US boats in the gulf, now?

47 cruise missiles

Biden ⁠said he got a call from left-wing social media commentator Andrew ​Callaghan, who told him that he was organizing the match.

They just went the other way with it. Not sure I’d call him that, either.

I’m finding it hard to be happy about any of the positives coming from the US government these days. A couple of bright spots don’t really outshine the depressing everything else.

You write like an Axios reporter.

“The more light that you get during the daytime, the less impact the light in the evening has,” Zeitzer says. The pre-pandemic world exposed people to a lot more light than they realised. There’s the Sun during a commute, the piercing fluorescent bulbs of an office, a walk to lunch. Now, so many of us roll out of bed and sit under the same lighting conditions until we go to sleep. Our bodies can’t tell the difference between day and night.

RTO propaganda! /s

Hasn’t this actually happened a few times in LA? The hellcats outrunning the helicopters, I mean.

Shit, that experience might be worth the jail time.

And do taxes, too

Hoagies and grinders!

Your turn next!

Watching this was weird for my American brain. It’s multi-lingual and the Dutch host using slang like “OGs.”

Gotta see these non-English versions of TM though. Wonder if the humor comes through with subtitles.

Gotta feel cool to have your software support the people doing the “real” work.

Imagine never learning through trying things. Also, you’re on Lemmy arguing against self-hosting.

Why do you need a self hosted instance open to the World?

Because I can and I want to?

Well, at least it doesn’t seem targeted, then. Did you do anything to remedy the situation?

I got nothing useful from that linked discussion.

[…] crazy bot traffic trying everything from MySQL connections, ssh, Wordpress sniffing, xss attacks, you name it.

oh yeah, I see that on everything. I’m not so worried about those vuln scanners than this overwhelming nonsense traffic that I’m seeing now. This is different, and seemingly pointless.

Possibly AI company crawlers. When they came up there was a lot of bad publicity and reports of actively malicious and toxic crawling behavior, including ban evasion.

That was kind of what I was thinking, but if that’s true, they’re wasting so much bandwidth and compute. Going through every combination of issue label combinations does not get them any useful code to hoover up. They could’ve just cloned my repos and be done with it.

You can think about locking some url paths behind valid login sessions, or use a proof of work proxy guard.

Anubis is the popular tool for that. I’ve seen maybe three alternatives, one of which from Cloudflare.

Really don’t want to Cloudflare, but Anubis is interesting. If I can’t shake these bots, maybe I’ll consider this. Thanks.

Having a private instance isn’t exactly indicative to open source software, so I don’t think that’s the way I want to take it. I’d probably move to Codeberg or even GitHub before hosting the entire thing on a private net.

I also don’t think monitoring and blocking are going to help here. This traffic came from so many different IPs that it would be almost impossible to detect and block them all without blocking legitimate traffic. I also really don’t want to hook up a Cloudflare-like centralized challenge system to deal with this if I can avoid it.