@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, it is only Manton (with which I don’t see eye to eye) for now. I am simply anticipating the issue, rather than experiencing it fully right now. If efforts continue on this direction, you see what I am writing about, right?

@kiwu@twtxt.net I see. I have no experience on the matter, sadly. :-( I am sure you can find plenty of recommendations online. Beware of anything below $100 (you will find plenty of cheap, but they are, indeed, cheap in the whole sense of the word). I’d say, a decent one will start around $250-$300, and up.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Gemini agrees. :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net Judging by the BRG and BIDV buildings, I conclude this is Hồ Hoàn Kiếm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho%C3%A0n_Ki%E1%BA%BFm_Lake

this is apparently a famous lake in Hanoi city in Vietnam. Don’t know what it’s called though.

@kiwu@twtxt.net I’ve no idea about regulations in your area, but over here there are different taxation rules for video and photo cameras. Hence, manufacturers limit the video recording time of photo cameras typically to half an hour, so that they don’t classify as video cameras with their higher taxes.

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Worked out perfectly for me, too! :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net Tada! There you once hope for your flight and ride to be delayed and then of course they are right on time! :-D You gotta wait either way. ;-) Looks like you got some good drinks, though.

We have arrived at our first hotel. but check-in isn’t till 2PM 🤣 We arrived at 12:45PM 😆

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe That’s the one 😆

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Very nice! 👌

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ahh i see!

It’s only been really @manton@bridge.twtxt.net that’s new on yhe disxover cure? 🧐 And only because i’m following him (only person whose Fediverse handle i could remember 🤣)

@prologic@twtxt.net Very rarely. And if I/we do, then it’s by train or by car. 😅

@bender@twtxt.net a mobile phone camera doesn’t cut it because it cant take long videos. I would say like the cheapest possible tbh! it doesn’t have to be an amazing grade a camera, just something that will record in decent quality for long periods of time! I mostly want it to make vlogs :p

@movq@www.uninformativ.de You don’t go on holidays anywhere? 🧐

@prologic@twtxt.net Really? That’s nice. 😅 (God, I haven’t been on a plane in 25 years, I think.)

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Too true!

One of the advantages of being vegetarian. you get served your in-flight meal first. before everyone else 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net What’s happened for you here? 🧐

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha, I would feel the same. :-)

@kiwu@twtxt.net It also greatly depends on what kind of videos you plan to record. When you go, let’s say, diving, the specs need to be probably more suited to that type of environment. What about zoom, macro shots, wide landscapes, and so on? When typically mounted on a tripod, I’d say builtin image stabilization is not required, but for more action shots, this is fairly important to not get sea sick. :-)

I’ve got a Nikon Coolpix S9300. I typically only take photos, but it also works for the occasional video. Free hand moves are quite difficult, but when mounted to a tripod, this is not too shabby. There’s absolutely no way around a (makeshift) tridpod when zooming in, though. The audio is definitely not the best, especially wind destroys everything. If I recorded more video, I would certainly want to have an external microphone.

Canine: HotTopic, sparkledog, Christmas tree looking edition

@movq@www.uninformativ.de All good! 👌 Likely bug on my end (bridge)

fark’n hell! why are there so many actors on the bridge?! 🤯 (shadow twtxt feeds)

@prologic@twtxt.net Hmm. 🤔 Well, I don’t run that server myself, so I can’t peek into the logs to see what’s going wrong … 🥴

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Yea or as a comment in your feed somewhere

Seems i can’t add you to the bridge hmmm

@movq@www.uninformativ.de So that’s movq@tilde.zone ? I’ll first have to put it into the bridge…

@prologic@twtxt.net do I just have to actually post the token into the twtxt timeline for the bridge?

(as in, for registration)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh yeah, there’s lots of them here. Even in winter when it’s freezing outside. I’m always baffled to see parrots in the snow … feels like a paradox. 🥴

@prologic@twtxt.net How do I test? You can try to mention my Mastodon account https://tilde.zone/@movq, if that helps. 🤔

Hey @ocdtrekkie@bridge.twtxt.net 👋 Is this thing on? 🧐

@therealprologic@bridge.twtxt.net Sweet! Mentions are fixed! 👌 Now just have to fix threading!

Hey @prologic@twtxt.net 👋

@therealprologic@bridge.twtxt.net Okay so the mention translation is. busted and umm the threading is busted. But other than that, so far so good 😊

@c350a5e5fb9d9457@bridge.twtxt.net Does this mean we’res starting to work, this whole Twtxt <-> ActivityPub bridge thingy? 🤔

Oh my god! 🤣 It works! 🥳 My first Twt into the Fediverse (stil some improvements to be made of course), but still 😳 Wow! 🤩

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Thanks for the account! I figured out one thing at least so far, my WAF was blocking some of the AP requests. Fixed that. Anyway, holiday time 🤣 Back in ~2 weeks.

Good to see so many folks starting to come back to our little non-social social ecosystem 👌 Good to also see twtxt.net starting to peer with 7 other pods in the greater network too! 🥳

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe I don’t even know how to fix that 🤣 Do you? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Your gitea thinks the LICENSE file in the yarn repository is SSPL-1.0 instead of GNU AGPL 3.0,
and I can’t help but giggle at that

@kiwu@twtxt.net at what price range are you looking to keep your expenses? A mobile phone camera doesn’t cut it?

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe HAHAHAHAHAH! Hell yeah!!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de How sweet! :-) I find it super interesting that they’re kinda common around your area: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandersittich#Verbreitung We don’t have them here.

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe there you go! What I am trying to say is, if @prologic@twtxt.net truly wants to be able to diagnose something as difficult to diagnose as ActivityPub, he ought to run his own. There is no workaround.

@prologic@twtxt.net I am telling you that is extremely easy: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/advanced/host-account-domain/. Now, if you are putting into account your rather… unique setup, then that’s another story.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com It’s definately been a long and fast year that’s for sure 👍 Don’t worry!

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, I’ve had even requested access to it in order to give it a try and report whatever I can but, Sorry I never got to do any of it. 2025 slam dunked a massive pile of 💩 over my life (hence the disappearance, trying to avoid talking about any of it) and I’m just starting to recover (or at least trying to).

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I think I’ll just end up using the Official CrowdSec Go library 🤔

Speaking of WAF(s) / Web Applicaiton Firewalls – I actually had forgotten that not only have I designed a new WAF from scratch, but I’ve actually implemented it already, and done some local testing. I just haven’t put it into production yet… What od you think @aelaraji@aelaraji.com ? 🤔 https://git.mills.io/prologic/caddy-waf

@prologic@twtxt.net The periodic blacklists updates will be done automatically in the background, as for the different processing mechanisms (rules, collections of rules, remediation …etc) you just install/add the pre-made ones from the hub and call it a day, they’ll get periodic updates when needed. But you could easily create and add your own in case you want to block or white-list a specific behavior

Sometimes, (just sometimes) my ability to pattern match and remember how to play perfect games of chess is awesome 😎

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Good luck! 🤞

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe If you’re after a list of bad ASN(s) I have such a list handy here 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net @aelaraji@aelaraji.com https://http.cat/status/402

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ahhh! That would be even funnier and even more brilliant! 🤣 If you can find this, I would happily employ this tactic next time and make ‘em pay 💰 Bahahahaha 🤣

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe You would have to pull main and build from source 🤣 I promise I’ll make a new major release soon™ – Only been promising that for a while now, but it will happen this year 🤣

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yeah and I think I can basically pull the crowssec rules every N interval right and use this to make blocking decisions? – I’ve actually considered this part of a completely new WAF design that I just haven’t built yet (just designing it).

@prologic@twtxt.net I remember reading a blog-post where someone has been throwing redirects to some +100GB files (usually used for speed testing purposes) at a swarm of bots that has been abusing his server in order to criple them, but I can’t find it anymore. I’m pretty sure I’ve had it bookmarked somewhere.

@prologic@twtxt.net 😂HAHA, thanks!

@prologic@twtxt.net The main thing that I tought of is that whomever is abusing your services must be a well known actor (by range/set of IPs) that got reported by other Crowdsec users. So to my simpleton’s understanding, your reverse-proxy/web server passes the requests by crowdsec for processing, they get banned for $N hours if the source has already been blacklisted by the community or violates any of a set of behavior base rules (and even more hours for repeat offenders); otherwise the requests/responses go as per usual. Not sure if I got things right but this might help paint a better picture of the process.

Anyone on my pod (twtxt.net) finding the new Filter(s) useful at all? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net That’s not the problem. The problem is the complex DNS setup and delegation. I’ve gotten it working once before, but it’s not that easy if you don’t intend to run it on the APEX Domain.

@prologic@twtxt.net I will share later my GoToSocial 10 lines (or less) config.yaml, and 4 lines Caddyfile, and you will see how easy it is.

@prologic@twtxt.net How so? even I (the caveman) am running one 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net I’ll create one manually and send you the creds so you can change them as soon as you log in (my instance isn’t set up to send emails). Not sure how you could get access to logs, not even my admin account has that on the admin panel. I just snoop trough the /var/log/* when needed.

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Yes 👍

Up Next:

Twtxt feed support for Kosuzu
A simpler theme for Yarn, perhaps?

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

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I meant ISPs. Hm, okay. 🤔

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 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net it would have been so much easy to run your own. I guess we all like to suffer every once and then, and this time is your turn. 😅

@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?

@prologic@twtxt.net I’d say give crowdsec a try but I know for sure you prefer your own WAF … 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net Let me know if you still need an account for testing. My tin-can bandwidth is slow AF but usable if you don’t mind the speed.

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?!

@zvava@twtxt.net I am waiting for that v1, so that I can start using it. 🙏🏻

@iolfree@tilde.club @movq@www.uninformativ.de So true! Good read, thanks for recommending. :-)

@iolfree@tilde.club They’re not wrong, are they? 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I just skip all those merchants who only accept PayPal or credit card.

@prologic@twtxt.net Do these IPs belong to hosting providers or to providers of private internet connections? The latter is what I’m seeing on my server …

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 :/

@prologic@twtxt.net We have a bit of a vendor lock-in here in Germany: PayPal is sometimes the only non-shady option to pay for something. ☹️

@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!)

@prologic@twtxt.net what’s that?

@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.

@yarn_police@twtxt.net good thing we got law and order around here. And I mean, literally! 😅

@arne@uplegger.eu Das klingt interessant. Aber wer definiert, welche Projekte darunter fallen? Keine Ahnung wie das sonst so mit dem Ehrenamt ist, aber das müssen ja dann auch gemeinnützige Vereine oder etwas Vergleichbares sein, oder? :-?

Wenn ich in der Petition schon wieder KI les, wird mir gleich anders.

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh shit, that’s not healthy! :-(

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net That’s fine with me. It could be even the 1st January 2026, as simple as the change really is.

But it would be also alright to just stick with July, so that I don’t have to update the tests. :-P

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Dang it. :-(

@prologic@twtxt.net oh man, I envy you. I want an Asian vacation (Japan 😍) so badly!

@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! 🙌