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Stopping a badly behaved bot the wrong way.

I host a few small low-traffic websites for local interests. I do this for free - and some of them are for a friend who died last year but didn’t want all his work to vanish. They don’t get so many views, so I was surprised when I happened to glance at munin and saw my bandwidth usage had gone up a lot....

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I was kinda hoping for another story about some clever compression bomb or similar to slow up the bot - after all, if it’s hammering this little site it’s surely doing the same to others, even if they haven’t noticed yet. After the robots.txt was ignored I was sure, but I guess this mature, restrained response is probably the correct one discontentedly kicks can down sepia street

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I feel a company that big would write a more competent bot, but I also wouldn’t be too astonished.

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I went in with the wrong kind of mocking in mind.

Leave Britney alone meme but saying Stop mocking fetch

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An absolute gift to headline writers.

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Agreed - I think part of the humour in a meme is fitting new situations into the format and when this is ignored (or done poorly) it misses the mark, kinda like as if you’d attempted a limerick but got the meter all wrong.

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That Jordan (who shot down some of the missiles) agrees that Iran gave warning, I think it’s clear that Iran wanted to retaliate without escalating. Israel saying we’ll reply when we’re ready feels like they’re happy to draw a line under it for now.

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I had to check the community when I saw the headline, although the article is a bit heavy-handed.

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Weirdly, the largest versions I found have the labels underneath instead of top:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240414234116if_/https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/8e/27/ca8e276749a658aa4e538dec119060e1.jpg

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I had this! It happened in maybe 2010 and there wasn’t much information available online, but enough for me to figure that it was the pine nuts. It lasted for about five days and never happened again.

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If I hadn’t had found others saying it was the pine nuts then I’d be worried it was a brain tumour or something.

It was reported it could last weeks or months, so I was happy enough with only five days.

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This is a great story, no downsides apart from maybe that the parrotfish have to find something else to eat.

what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion

I want to reset my server soon and I’m toying with the idea of using a different operating system. I am currently using Ubuntu Server LTS. However, I have been toying with the idea of using Fedora Server (I use Fedora on my laptop and made good experiences with it) or even Fedora CoreOS. I also recently installed NixOS on my...

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I went with Fedora on my VPS because I was also planning to use rootless Podman. Quadlets and running everything through systemd with SELinux enabled is working pretty well for me.

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tl;dw: Slay the Spire 2 will be built with Godot, rather than Unity which Mega Crit previously used.

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Some frequently cited statistics—that cases of wrongly assigned paternity make up between ten and thirty per cent of all births—are misleading, since they are often based on data from tests requested by people who already have doubts about paternity. When the data are based on studies done for other reasons (for example, to look at inherited predispositions to conditions like cystic fibrosis), the rates of misattributed paternity come in at between one and 3.7 per cent.

That answered my question, quoted in case it answers others’, too.

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First thing I did was check the date, but if it’s a joke, it’s nine days late.

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I can almost believe that Australians do get their April Fools Day stuff that late.

EU passes asylum and migration pact after eight years of deadlock (www.theguardian.com)

Roberta Metsola, the European parliament president, wrote on X: “History made. We have delivered a robust legislative framework on how to deal with migration and asylum in the EU. It has been more than 10 years in the making. But we kept our word. A balance between solidarity and responsibility. This is the European way.”

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Champions of the laws, who had been campaigning to get the legislation passed in the face of a rise in popularity of the far right before the European parliament elections in June, seized on the move as a great victory.

Unfortunately, this might help those far-right populists by giving them something topical to rant about.

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Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a non-profit corporation founded to act as a fiscal sponsor for organizations that develop open source software and hardware.

[SPI] handles several projects of similar type and size (e.g., Arch and Debian).

Seems a good thing, and hopefully now that US donations are tax-deductible there’ll be more of them.

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This is throwing the baby out with the bath water. The problems aren’t with mobile computing, but with social media and free-to-play games abusing the science of addiction to create psychological dependencies in users (and children are especially vulnerable to this). Even the timing of your notifications can and are used to manipulate you.

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That the execs are thinking it doesn’t have commercial appeal is almost a guarantee that it’ll be received as great - these are the same execs that think all the public wants are sequels, prequels, and lazy 80s IP nostalgia cash-ins.

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You’re wasting energy then, and you also need to have some controller on each one to communicate with the grid. No country has a smart grid yet.

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They do shut off (“curtail”) renewable energy because it is a problem - excess power can destabilise the grid, causing brownouts and blackouts and also physically damage grid equipment like transformers and transmission lines over time.

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Interesting seeing how receiving money generated its own problems and work. They seem to be handling it well, though.

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Was this fixed for you? I’m on 10.0.0.0 (12654) after installing on a new Android phone, syncing with Navidrome. Sync seems fine to me (although I have spotted a bug in Navidrome when using capitals in usernames).

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