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.

Yes, apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Partnership_Program

Though this wiki article is kind of bad.

I’ve only had a handful of bandit encounters so far so it’s hard to say. They can spot you from very far away even if you’re partially hidden. But I did have an amusing chase around a house where they seemed to take dynamic pathing during a fight.

Just played about an hour of it. It’s definitely a bit clunky still in UI and inventory management. Definitely early access, definitely some bugs.

First time out of the shelter, I couldn’t load my starting shotgun, walked up to an NPC and got blasted. Bled out and was confused. But after about an hour I’ve got some loot in my cabin, some guns, and I don’t immediately die upon contact with a bandit.

Haven’t gotten done any quests. Not exactly sure how that works yet.

deep swallowing sounds

The war-planning group had been kept so tight that the two key officials who would need to manage the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, were excluded, as was Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence.

Not including the DNI in war planning is insane. And not a single one of the sycophant advisors offered any real opinion.

Somehow I keep being surprised at the incompetence.

She should probably have a science officer uniform

Same. One of these days some texting kid in a $70k truck is going to smear my body on the pavement.