@movq@www.uninformativ.de sorry dude I think we’re getting our language confused. I think I actually meant private Internet connections.

Something I caught myself saying earlier in the day:

As a human species we need to stop doing stupid shit™.

–James Mills

T-shirt coming soon™

Tired to re-enable the Ege route to git.mills.io today (after finishing work) and this is what I found 🤯 Tehse asshole/cunts are still at it !!! 🤬 – So let’s instead see if this works:

$ host git.mills.io 1.1.1.1
Using domain server:
Name: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Aliases:

git.mills.io is an alias for fuckoff.mills.io.
fuckoff.mills.io has address 127.0.0.1

PS: Would anyone be interested if I started a massive global class action suit against companies that do this kind of abusive web crawling behavior, violate/disregards robots.txt and whatever else standards that are set in stone by the W3C? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Maybe so. But running Mastodon or GotoSocial is actually not as easy as you’d think 😂

@movq@www.uninformativ.de If by that you mean ISP(s)? No. so far most are hosting providers by the looks? 🧐

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ahh that would be awesome!!! I’d also somehow need read access to logs so i can figure shit out on my own 🧐

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Haha! 😂 Welcome back 🙌

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Tell me more? How does this work?

Oh fuck me! I had basically turned off the route to git.mills.io last night and went ot bed at ~2AM after unsuccessfully trying to control the attacks (bad bots) that were behaving like a DDoS attack. Tried to re-enable the route this monring and *BOOM, they’re back! As-if they never stopped?! what da actual fuq?! Anyone have any clever ideas of what I can do here to allows normal users, like you nice folk and block ths obnoxious traffic?!

Fark me again with the bots. This time DDoS-style crawling from hundreds of IPs and dozens of ASN(s) wtf?!
I’ve had to disale the Ingress to my Git instance for the time being, i need to sleep and I can’t fight this :/

@bender@twtxt.net Just a donations thiny I knew about from years ago that I never setup properly. Now an acceptable form of donation on my prologic.dev site 👌 (if anyone ever does that is!)

Bye bye PayPal 👋 Hello LibrePay 👋

When I try to login to PayPal I now see:

Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker

Here’s the thing. PayPal takes fees from transactions and payments received and sent.

I have very right not have ads shoved in my face for something that isn’t actually free in the first place and costs money to use. If PayPal would like to continue to piss off folks me like, then I’ll happily close my PayPal account and go somewhere else that doesn’t shove ads in my face and consume 30-40% of my Internet bandwidth on useless garbage/crap.

#PayPal #Ads

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Haha 🤣 Nice typo there!

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe I’m mostly against it because it forces Javascript™ on the client(s) at a blanket level. Doing “Proof-of-Work” explicitly IMO is fine™, but not at an Ingress/Edge level IMO – Which is why I haven’t adopted it myself.

My day (yesterday), stand up at 09:30AM (AEDT), P2 Incident at 10:20AM. End of my day 04:30AM (AEST) the next day! Oh my 🤣 🔥 🤦‍♂️

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net I’ll also start spamming from my upcoming Vietnam holiday (flying out this Friday) for a couple of soliday weeks 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Seems fine to me! Plenty of time to get our shit™ in order! 🙌

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Welcome back! 🤟 You have been missed! 😅

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Welcome back 🤟

Obviously yarnd 🙋‍♂️

This is what this looked like visually 😳

At this point I’m considering starting a class action lawsuit for all the self-hostess and little-web folks that want to host a small thing or two and sue these fucking inconsiderate fucking corporate giants, hopefully win, and make them respect others on the web.

Fark me 🤦‍♂️ I woke up quite late today (after a long night helping/assisting with a Mainframe migration last night fork work) to abusive traffic and my alerts going off. The impact? My pod (twtxt.net) was being hammered by something at a request rate of 30 req/s (there are global rate limits in place, but still…). The culprit? Turned out to be a particular IP 43.134.51.191 and after looking into who own s that IP I discovered it was yet-another-bad-customer-or-whatever from Tencent, so that entire network (ASN) is now blocked from my Edge:

+# Who: Tentcent
+# Why: Bad Bots
+132203

Total damage?

$ caddy-log-formatter twtxt.net.log | cut -f 1 -d  ' ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n -k 1 | head -n 5
  61371 43.134.51.191
    402 159.196.9.199
    121 45.77.238.240
      8 106.200.1.116
      6 104.250.53.138

61k reqs over an hour or so (before I noticed), bunch of CPU time burned, and useless waste of my fucking time.

@bender@twtxt.net Don’t even think that was on the cards I’m afraid 😳 But yes I’ve said that in a message to the recruiter.

@kiwu@twtxt.net I’m glad you’re liking the updates haha 😆

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @bender@twtxt.net Pfft, they want folks to relocate to Sydney. Fuck that 🤣 Sydney is a bit like San Francisco, I’m not actually sure which is worse. Fuck’n expensive as hell, the only palce you’d be able to afford to buy or rent is at least ~2hrs out of the city by public transport (i.e: train) and by that time you’ve just pissed your life down the toilet, because you’d be expected ot work a 9-10hr day + 2-3hrs of travel each way, buy the time you factor in having to wake up super early to get ready to travel in to work, you basically have zero time for anything else, let alone your ufamily,

Fuck that.

Hmmm

Hello @therealprologic@bridge.twtxt.net 👋

@bender@twtxt.net Haha 🤣 Spoken like someone that’s done this before 😅

What do you do, when a recruiter throws you a PD or two and says the total compensation is ~2-3x what you’re on now?! 🤔

@arne@uplegger.eu @lukas@lukasthiel.de In fact, Yarn.social’s yarnd client implementation actually uses (or did, still kinda does today) PicoCSS 🤟 It was/is a good CSS library! 👍

@thecanine@twtxt.net Comgrats! 🙌

Boi am I glad I made the decision to get off of Clownflare back in Jan of this yaer 🤣

Hmmm 🧐

Hello Mastocon? 🤔

Testing 1 2 3

@kiwu@twtxt.net Oh! you like? 👍 Haha 😆

Testing 1 2 3

Hey @ocdtrekkie@bridge.twtxt.net 👋

ap-verify: 8f259adfc4ef06ac1472

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org LOL 😂

@bender@twtxt.net LOL 😂

@bender@twtxt.net The “t” 🤣

@quark@ferengi.one It’s very nice mate 😅 I didn’t know you were this good at CSS 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net That’s actually kind of what I was going for, just with a stylized “t” and some blue/purple/red shades 🤣

It is very nice look’n 🤟

What I wanna know at this point @bender@twtxt.net is this; What is this “Notes” thing. Is it just a uugo static site you maintain or something else? 🤔 Did you write all the CSS yourself? 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @bender@twtxt.net that’s also what Yarn.social’s logo is, and just happens to be the yarnd default. Hmmm figured times for a change? 🤔

ap-verify: f1fb71f88d8a644dbd84

You no Mikey like? 🧐

@bender@twtxt.net I don’t think so ? 🧐😂🤦‍♂️

Sorry better verison

New beginnings, new horizons. New pod logo 🤟

LOL 😂 I think mastodon.social is broken 😞

Test

@therealprologic@bridge.twtxt.net It works! 🤣 Now I’m quite sure we haven’t got threads working yet 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de unison seems pretty fast for me, and quite nice looking on my macOS desktop. It’s bsed on GLFW, but it seems to work quite well 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Haha 😆

GtS is easier than running Yarn, by the way. Word

This is total bullshit 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net It’s good enough ti iron out any bugs 🐛 Can I haz an account? 🙏

This is crazy 🤪

LOL it works 🤣

Hey @mastodon@bridge.twtxt.net 👋

@bender@twtxt.net Not even a GotoSocial server? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net You don’t run one anymore do you? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Bit big of a server no? 🤔

Someone, on the Bridge, this is meant to have sent @manton@bridge.twtxt.net a “Follow Request” via Activity Pub hmmm 🧐

Test (_did I fix this shit™-)?

Hey @manton@bridge.twtxt.net 👋 Why yes I believe I did!

Anyone run a Mastodon serve rI can have an account on to help test the Twtxt <-> Activity Pub bridge? 🙏

@bender@twtxt.net I need another side that I can unblame 🤣

I think because it still inserted the wrong alias in my following list:

# follow = manton@bridge.twtxt.net https://bridge.twtxt.net/twtxt/remote/d428c49928a4a0d1.txt

I’m not currently sure why this is tab-completing incorrectly hmmm 🧐

Testing 1 2 3 @manton@twtxt.net

ap-verify: a67864d4229ae22f5f60

Wow :O That didn’t work!

Test @-mentioning@twtxt.net an AP actor via the Bridge. Hey @manton@twtxt.net 👋

verify: 3074975949c3b0d27df4

I need some test Activity Pub / Mastodon users to test with 🤔

And this isn’t even me, it’s the other end 🤣

WOW LOL

fetch https://weaknotes.com/users/david: status 500 Internal Server Error

First real test failed trying to lookup / follow @david@weaknotes.com

Haha 🤣 I wonder what the reliability of executing a sleep in a 200 billion year loop cycle is? 🤔

For those curious, the new Twtxt <-> ActivityPub bridge I’m building (bidirectional) simply requires three things:

1. You register your Twtxt feed to the bridge: https://bridge.twtxt.net
   
2. You verify that you in fact own/control the feed by putting the verification code somewhere on/in your feed (doesn’t matter where or how)
   
3. You proxy/forward requests for /.well-known/webfinger to the Bridge bridge.twtxt.net.
   

I’m still testing through and ironing out bugs 🐛 Please be patient! 🙏

technically I can put the Bridge verificaiton code in my feed’s metadata so no-one really ever sees or notices it 🤔 Maybe I’ll add a first-class button/field thingy in yarnd so users can “register their feed” straight from their pod? 🤔

verify: be6b4443c96a602b1947

@bender@twtxt.net Twtxt <-> ActivityPub (2nd time’s the charm? 🤣)

Testing new design, architecture and implementation of a Twtxt bridge I’m working on…

verification-token: ee9bc4da3356f4990671

Please ignore.

Reacher out to Mike on BlueSky.

whoo fix a long stnading bug with identicons for feeds with no avatar in their metadata

Hint:

# nick = ...
# avatar = ...

@bender@twtxt.net Just wrote better code with tests 🤣

Fixed

Hmmm all these tilde.club feeds have no # nick and is messing with yarnd’s behavior 😅

I spent a few mins on teh tilde website, and for the life of me I can’t find a way to contact anyone responsible/accountable for this wonderful little service 🤣

Is it worth me reaching out to the operator and helping build some solution for their userbase to detect followers? 🧐

I have now permitted the following media types:

image/*
audio/*
video/*
text/*

Done ✅ Will be available on this pod as soon as the publish workflow finished successfully.

@bender@twtxt.net yeah it wasn’t so much of a browser thing, more of a security/abuse thing. If you upload large media, we downsize/downscale it, etc.

@bender@twtxt.net The only problem with uploading is the procesing. Do you expect any server-side processing of the WebP or just store and host?

@bender@twtxt.net That we can do easily. Just supporting tendering .webp inline eight? 🧐

This ☝️

Thank you for the encouragement and love and kind words, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net @doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt and others along the way I’m not sure of their feed uris 💕 I’ll keep at it, but for the time being I will keep my distance, mostly off IRC, because I don’t have the energy to spare in that kind of engagement (what//if the worst happens, it’s so draining). I need to remember what I ever did any of this for, it was back in ~2020 and I wanted really to build small interconnected communities that any non “tech savvy” person (more or less) could also benefit from ane enjoy. Even if there are aspects of the specs we’ve built/extended over time that aren’t “perfect”™, they’re “good enough”™ that they’ve last 5+ years (I believe this is 6 years running now). I want to spend a bit of time going back to why I did any of this in the the first place, and get a little micro-SaaS offering going (barely covering running costs) so encourage more folks to run pods, and thus twtxt feeds and grow the community ever so slightly. Other than that, I plan to get the specs “in order” to a point (with @movq@www.uninformativ.de and @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s help) where I hope they’ll stand the test of time – like SMTP.

Thank you all ! 🙏