Jade

Jade

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Maintains https://continuwuity.org, among other things. Mostly posting fluff, because it's nicer. Occasionally tech stuff. Meow Some rants and pictures are […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://tech.lgbt/@JadedBlueEyes, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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I haven't really posted about it, but the bots have been getting worse recently. In the past couple of months they've started bypassing protections that were effective for more than a year previously and hitting peaks of 160 requests per second against my forge […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

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RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117281588026719610 That one time I went viral for calling out a multi-billion dollar company and all I got was 200 mastodon followers, a journalist in my DMs and the slight annoyance of people who have large amounts of money

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After my comment on "Concerned AI bros" I got a message that basically went: "Congrats, your article got some traction. We both know that you are just saying those things cause you are a contrarian and want to make money." And I hear that not often but sometimes so a quick reality check. - you […]

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I haven't really posted about it, but the bots have been getting worse recently. In the past couple of months they've started bypassing protections that were effective for more than a year previously and hitting peaks of 160 requests per second against my forge […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

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Other places I talk with are having it far worse - with the equivalent of multiple full dedicated servers JUST serving bot requests despite their protections being aggressive enough to constantly catch real users in the crossfire with IP blocking (something I'm not willing to do right now).

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I don't know how the web, collectively, is going to recover from this. The baseline requirements to exist as anything more complex than a static site have shot up so massively, with this "internet background radiation" happily swallowing up everything it can get its jaws around

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I haven't really posted about it, but the bots have been getting worse recently. In the past couple of months they've started bypassing protections that were effective for more than a year previously and hitting peaks of 160 requests per second against my forge […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

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At this point my server was under other load, but they kept hammering it till it fell over and then hammered it some more. Which was annoying, because real people were trying to use it at the time.

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All of this is with a go-away config running various checks and rules, POW on certain endpoints, header rules to catch fake Chrome instances and so on that worked in the past. I'm told that they're running full-fat headless Chrome instances now, and there's no way to block them without blocking […]

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OK I had a look at the steam frame and this seems like it could actually be crazy for FPV content recording? With the dual 5k60 HDR cameras plus the fact that it's running a full Linux system that you could probably hook digital viewfinders for other cameras up to as well

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What do all my KZ Bluetooth modules for my IEMs all die the same way! 😭 Yet again, the stiff connector cable section has broken even though the actual electronics are fine. I can... pause my music and accept calls with it? But not actually listen to anything!! I'm gonna have to try a different […]

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It's so so important as software developers we don't forget that we aren't working on a production line - what we do is creative work, is art, and artists are our siblings in persuit.