Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
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- https://capsul.org/
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
@Tak Yeah in the config, there's a bunch of rules that allow certain things thru, git clients being one of them.
hard to argue with those 3 words : Welcome to nginx!
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Hello, world! We are Bunk Computer Cooperative -- a worker-owned technology #coop in Western North Carolina. We're building local computing infrastructure that's of and for Western #northcarolina
We're still getting off the ground, but we've been hard at work the last eight months and we're ready to introduce ourselves. We wrote an #introduction blog post that you can read at the link in our bio, and we'd be thrilled if you did! Boosts Appreciated!
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Right now, I think that these bot deterrents are mostly just functioning similar to a "security thru obscurity" javascript blob.
I don't think the difficulty actually matters at all, you might as well set it to one because if scrapers ever try to solve the proof of work in the future, I think sha256 is categorically not going to work anymore since it's so easy to accelerate and so many accelerators for it already exist (bitcoin).
I actually created a proof of work bot deterrent before the LLM hype even existed. Back then I chose Scrypt as a memory-hard hash function because I wanted it to be as easy as possible for normal website visitors to solve, but as painful as possible for scrapers, even after they perceive it and react to it.
I don't have mine triggering on browser user agents. I just have it trigger all the time by default except for some tools that I allow list like git, npm, go, etc. I also explicitly allow home pages and repository home pages so that search indexers can still find things and display them.
You can see a demo of it here as well as the source code:
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@gitea lol jesus christ, people's deployments of their forges are being ddosed constantly by llms nicking their shit, and you're leaning into ai?? read the room
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today I set all the git repositories on my personal forgejo server to private because llm crawlers were thrashing my server
when you ask chatgpt a silly question to see the silly answer, or prompt midjourney or whatever for a funny image, or use copilot or claude to vibe code, you are complicit in this
@Tak I run gitea/forgejo aswell and I made my own, it works pretty well. The config isn't perfect yet but on the off chance you are using docker I do have a docker compose config example on there.
https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/pow-bot-deterrent-rp
Yeah its very cringe how the LLM scraper bots will try to download both zip and tarball of the repo at every single commit.
@dumpsterqueer I think this is what happened to cyberia's old server when it crashed hard, except it was all / most processes. I never really understood it at the time. I believe ZFS was involved, and it was running out of memory.
so the kernel is refusing to kill these nodeular processes because they made a syscall (probably io...?) that never returned? Or something? TIL
First QueerCoded workshop April 19nth !!! We decided on Saturday afternoon.
I've heard of a lot of different ones of these. Some of them are more black hat than others. But yeah, there's definitely a market for it. It's pretty big.
@notplants This is basically just a list of things that need to be replaced because they have 80s era UIs
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me & forest did a big capsul update yesterday - i think it's lookin pretty flippin cute
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In Minnesota, most cities’ zoning rules require new homes to be large and to sit on large lots — even in cities like Duluth, which are known for their older, smaller homes on small lots (built before these rules were made).
These rules were originally created to keep lower-income and non-white people out of communities.
They’ve done their job far too well, and it’s time to change them.
📣📣 Tell your legislators that you support the MN Starter Home Act, HF1987/SF2229. 📣📣
@feliks might just be old, idk
@feliks is this fake ?
For Twin Cities folks:
QueerCoded "Learn to Code" workshop!!
everyone welcome, donations accepted.
We (cyberia / layer zero) are doing a framadate (doodle clone) poll to find a time that works best. this will be in person at Queermunity (uptown mpls) twice a month
https://framadate.org/iQzB3zB2DxSrlwfa
Here is a quick web site I threw up for it https://queercoded.xyz/
If you know someone who might be interested, please get the word out! 🔁
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org/
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
