Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

there needs to be a person doorbell so someone can tell cloudflare that im a person and let me in to any website

If you’re helping resist in ANY way, do it quietly and leave your phone at home.

Organize offline. Use Signal if you absolutely have to have digital communications.

Social media has taught us to forgo discretion in an effort to get clicks and likes.

Discretion could save your life right now.

@joepie91 It's probably fine that every business is adding the ability to spend money you don't have, try not to think too deeply about what this implies about the general situation.

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One insight I've gained from many years of being involved in governance discussions...

If someone responds to governance advice with some variation on "prove to me that it works", rather than an interest to non-judgmentally understand its mechanics or effects in depth... then they are exceedingly unlikely to ever take your advice no matter how much proof you provide. It's probably not worth having the conversation at all.

When people are genuinely interested in your advice, they do not demand proof - they ask to learn from you. They open a space in their heart or mind where the new ideas can go.

If someone demands proof, chances are good that they're just trying to strike down your idea without making it look like they are to others - in a way that lets them claim that they've considered the idea, when they really never had any genuine intention of doing so and were just looking for the nearest way to make you 'wrong'. They're setting you an impossible-to-meet challenge.

Hey, so, in light of Microsoft killing off Windows 10 in October (https://digipres.club/@misty/114190352645015060)...

If you want more people to use Linux, now would probably be a good time to start talking to your friends and relatives about how Linux will still work and get updates and, most importantly, *offer to help them setting it up and keeping it working*.

And ideally, take notes of what problems they run into, because those notes are going to give you a pretty good idea of what needs changing for Linux to become more widely usable to people. Maybe you could even contribute some of the fixes yourself!

Apparently Doordash is adding the ability to finance your takeout order with Klarna, and if the next financial crisis is caused by too many people defaulting on their burger loans instead of their mortgages I'll be going to live in the mountains

That's a problem for future me. I'm sure future me will be angry at past me about it - but thankfully I am current me, and neither past nor future me, so therefore *I* will never have to deal with the consequences

the fediverse is so full of communists that instead of having many spammers we have one spammer and we all have to share her

The polylibrary story by @foone lives in this one's memory banks rent free

CW: kink, tattoos, body mods, various kinks are mentioned
https://foone.tumblr.com/tagged/Polylibrary

HEY FEDI! How might you make some DIY trading cards?

I want something sturdy enough to stand up to a few decades of kicking around in a junk drawer. Ideally, I want custom wax packs to wrap them in, but I'd settle for printed foil.

I'm in favor of either a fully DIY option or a service I can hire.

Any ideas? Brainstorm with me!

random thought: I don't think Wikipedia will downfall in the coming decades but I think it might transform into one of those "infrastructure thingy a lot of stuff depends on but most people don't know about". For the foreseeable future it will be a popular household brand name

canonical mode

https://wizardzines.com/comics/canonical-mode/

NEW by @rrix: Blocking Aggressive Scrapers at the Edge

In Limiting expensive to render nginx endpoints , I describe how to use a few nginx limit_req module to substantially limit the amount of aggressive scraping traffic to my Gitea instance without impacting "normal" "human" behavior.

There's three layered rate-limiters in here that are applied to only certain URIs:

One does a per-IP limit excluding my Tailscale network and some ASNs I connect from. Each IP can make one costly request per minute, otherwise receive a 503.
One tries to map certain cloud providers in to a single rate-limit key and gives each of these providers 1 RPM on these endpoints. Each group of cloud IPs can make one request per minute, otherwise receive a 503.
One puts a limit to 1 RPS of all traffic on each "site feature" in Gitea.

So now if you try to browse my Gitea instance http://code.rix.si or make a git clone over HTTP that will work just fine, but a handful of expensive endpoints will be aggressively rate-limited. If you want to look at the git blame for every file in my personal checkout of nixpkgs, you can do that on your own time on your own machine now.

So far installing this on my "edge" server seems to work really well, cutting the load of the small SSL terminator instance in half. Let's see if this is Good Enough.

https://cce.whatthefuck.computer/updates#20250320T130459.421338