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Lol we just had it circulating as is. The video was all over the fedi.

Laravel.

Thanks for all the work you do!

Depending on the instance/software on the fediverse, there are scripts that get rid of old content or do not go over a certain amount of data.

Its both security and practicality. Most of us are on tiny instances all over the place. Peoples houses, in small containers in the cloud, that sort of thing. We have limited space that is (probably) not be monetized in any way. This is all a labor of love. Im not saying its all like this or even specific to lemmy, but we are much smaller than the big wigs on the internet.

Everything is Ephemeral. We just help it along a bit and make it work for us.

I have a tiny php library for a somewhat popular framework. It was made so a company could protect a very old database and certain tables. It started as a one off 9 years ago. It was one php file of less than 50 lines.

As of this month it has been downloaded 2 million times. I still can’t believe its been used this much. And I’m the only maintainer. If I wanted to I could ruin a lot of peoples days. But I won’t.

In a couple of decades, we are going to have large swaths of code that will outlive its creators being used on essential infrastructure.

Woops yes!

Nice! Thats another way to do it. 😀

I know others use Arabis(?) I think thats what it called. The anime girl one that does a calc on top. Ive never had good luck with it. I think bot are using something to get around and it messes with my requests. Might also be my own fiddling.

I have something similar with fail2ban + hidden buttons. If the requester goes and clicks on the hidden buttons on the main site, it gets into a rabbit hole. After 3 requests, it gets banned for a bit. Usually stops the worst offenders. OpenAI and some of the scrapers are the worst.

Google/bing, I do actually see them hit robots.txt then jump off, which is what they should be going.

They have an upper limit. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/

A couple of my products went WAAAY above that and you essentially have to get a quick standard plan. If you have this problem, congrats, you are probably doing something really well or really bad!

They are not as bad as say AWS / Azures offerings when it comes to billing. Arguably, theres a reason they are still around when there are other tools that do similar things. Used to be, it was the most solid part of the infa. Nowadays…its for some reason going down quite often. And not just the world-wide issues taht everyone else is seeing. We have a product that CANNOT go down and cloudflare has been responsible for a couple of big issues, which is really unfortunate. Its still the best “work” service for what they do, but I dont have any of my personal infa connected.

Hell yeah, love your stuff!

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I always felt on R that if you commented, most of the time, it goes down a black hole. You come into something “late” and no one sees your comment. No up/down votes at all. Which can feel very bad if you spent a lot of time on your response.

I like that “Bambi principle”. Thats a good way of putting it.

Glad thats gone. It was very strange!

Its nice to recognize say Blase (with his super sonic profile) where he is hanging around in.

WTF! New rabbit hole?

Oh no.

It really does.

Ah yes, devil Linux.

Ill see myself out.

At some point im going to have to give it a try. I like playing around with alternative OSes for fun (like 9front, UXN, LFS, etc…).

Most communities only have one user so this checks out /s

What kind of communities are you talking about?

We had a comp at work back in 2011 that had 10 yrs uptime, serving a couple of file shares.