chris

vicgrinberg, 7 minutes ago to random

🥺 Definitely too much light pollution in Leiden city to see the Aurora - and I'm too chicken to cycle out into the polders/fields on my own at night.

mcc, 2 days ago to random

Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

vicgrinberg, 3 days ago to random

I am trying to re-create an old talk from ~4 years ago I found in my archives and I simultaneously love past-me (she did such a great job developing a talk structure, much better than the one I had in mind when asked to give a talk on this topic a month ago!) and hate her (she somehow managed to deleted the keynote of the talk so that I am now stuck with a PDF and trying to find all figures & re-type the text ...).

dugartogo, 3 days ago to random German

Ich habe schlecht geschlafen, nachdem ich diese Äußerung von #Merz gelesen habe.
Ich rege mich nicht in erster Linie auf über die andere Sichtweise und die beknackten Unterstellungen, sondern ich bin in tiefer Sorge, wie mit so einer Partei in der Regierung irgendwas in Richtung #Klimaanpassung und #Klimaschutz erreicht werden soll.

Die Prinzipien der #Verantwortungsdiffusion und Individualisierung struktureller Probleme, die hier propagiert werden, werden keine Probleme lösen.

vicgrinberg, 4 days ago to random

Natürlich musste ich in Köln bei Bittner vorbei - ich habe wirklich versucht, diesmal weniger Bücher zu kaufen. 9 ist weniger als 10, oder? Also: Erfolg!

#bookstodon #buch

chris, 4 days ago to random

I‘m wondering if there were still people in Germany in 1933 who loudly abstained from voting because “the choice between NSDAP and everything else is like the choice between pest and cholera” and “voting does not really change anything”.
And did they feel some smug justification that “the political class” failed?
#Trump #Biden

hope_n_beauty, 13 days ago to random German

Lindner 2019 zu #FFF: "Klimaschutz sei eine Sache der Profis"

Über #Lindner, was man den #Profis besser NICHT überlassen sollte, und den Mythos der angeblich so segensreichen Kräfte des #Marktes.🙄
Spoiler: Dieser Mann hätte niemals #Finanzminister werden dürfen!

#fdp #EEG

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/christian-lindner-und-die-wundersame-welt-der-profis-a-1257764.html

liztai, 14 days ago to TikTok

I don't use #TikTok. Don't even have an account. Can't stand the app. But this thing with TikTok in the US is grossing me out. It's one thing to ban the thing but quite another to force the co to sell the platform to a US company. That's like a land grab, even if money is exchanged. This is going to put a chill on business relations not just with China but with companies globally, because they'll be wondering, "will I be the next Bytedance? Will they try to grab my company too?"

chris, 16 days ago to linguistics

I desparately need an emergency #Linguistics service to challenge my new-to-me-and-maybe-stupid idea that #pierogi (the most delicious food) and #pierogue (the boat) are relatives.
It‘s just too plausible, they are little ships!

I can live with being one of today‘s lucky 10‘000, just tell me it‘s true!

fluepke, 17 days ago to random German

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/studie-jugend-100.html

Diese „Jugendstudie“ hat der Studienleiter, der nebenbei auch noch Unternehmensberater, Speaker und „Futurist“ ist, nicht in einem wissenschaftlichen Journal, sondern in seinem eigenen Verlag veröffentlicht. Die Studie stellt er auf seiner eigenen Webseite zu Verkauf und wirbt mit einem „Proven Expert“ Gütesiegel 😂

Die von ihm genutzte Vertriebsplatform sei „For the Advanced Marketer“.

Kann es - vielleicht - eventuell sein, dass diese „Studie“ unwissenschaftlich ist? 🤨

ai6yr, 20 days ago to macos

I wonder how long I have been carting this around without the associated computer. #MacOS

reginasbread, 22 days ago to random

sometimes, I hit "bookmark" instead of "star" when I want to like a toot, and then I try to figure out why certain posts are in my bookmarks. I mean, they're all bangers, but why did I bookmark a post about wanting to be stuck in a cabin with a bunch of hunks?

chris, 23 days ago to random

So #Covid vaccines are dangerous because #mRNA is dangerous.
#Amatoxin stops mRNA synthesis in the human body very effectively, it is absolutely natural, organic and available for free in wild mushrooms.
#bigPharma is hiding this fact from us and even managed to give the most common of these mushrooms a bad name.
“#FreedomCap not #DeathCap” may be a good campaign slogan!

matt, 23 days ago to random

When in doubt, you can always tell which iPad cost more money by how little color it has.

These are both "pink" iPads, but one costs $150 more than the other…more color is not one of the things you're paying for 😂😭

piefedadmin, 23 days ago to random

Fediverse traffic is pretty bursty and sometimes there will be a large backlog of Activities to send to your server, each of which involves a POST. This can hammer your instance and overwhelm the backend’s ability to keep up. Nginx provides a rate-limiting function which can accept POSTs at full speed and proxy them slowly through to your backend at whatever rate you specify.

For example, PieFed has a backend which listens on port 5000. Nginx listens on port 443 for POSTs from outside and sends them through to port 5000:

upstream app_server {   server 127.0.0.1:5000 fail_timeout=0;}

server {   listen 443 ssl;   listen [::]:443 ssl;   server_name piefed.social www.piefed.social;   root /var/www/whatever;   location / {       # Proxy all requests to Gunicorn       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;       proxy_set_header Host $http_host;       proxy_redirect off;       proxy_http_version 1.1;       proxy_set_header Connection "";       proxy_pass http://app_server;       ssi off;   }

To this basic config we need to add rate limiting, using the ‘limit_req_zone’ directive. Google that for further details.

limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=one:100m rate=10r/s;

This will use up to 100 MB of RAM as a buffer and limit POSTs to 10 per second, per IP address. Adjust as needed. If the sender is using multiple IP addresses the rate limit will not be as effective. Put this directive outside your server {} block.

Then after our first location / {} block, add a second one that is a copy of the first except with one additional line (and change it to apply to location /inbox or whatever the inbox URL is for your instance):

location /inbox {       <strong>limit_req zone=one burst=300;</strong>#       limit_req_dry_run on;       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;       proxy_set_header Host $http_host;       proxy_redirect off;       proxy_http_version 1.1;       proxy_set_header Connection "";       proxy_pass http://app_server;       ssi off;  }

300 is the maximum number of POSTs it will have in the queue. You can use limit_req_dry_run to test the rate limiting without actually doing any limiting – watch the nginx logs for messages while doing a dry run.

It’s been a while since I set this up so please let me know if I mixed anything crucial out or said something misleading.

https://join.piefed.social/2024/04/17/handling-large-bursts-of-post-requests-to-your-activitypub-inbox-using-a-buffer-in-nginx/

#nginx #webPerformance

Fischblog, 1 month ago to random German

Die Sonne scheint, die Kirschen blühen, die Vögel sitzen in den Bäumen und singen "Fickenfickenficken". Es ist sehr idyllisch.

uastronomer, 1 month ago to random

So here's a question: Scammers are always trying to get people to buy gift cards and then read them the code, so that they can get their money launderer to redeem them online or something?

And there's be some sort of hash function or whatever used to generate the voucher codes to stop people just trying to guess them sequentially?

Sort of like activation codes on software? So why has nobody written apple_gift_card_keygen.exe?

atomicpoet, 1 month ago to fediversenews

The Fedipact table showing which servers are blocking Threads is not accurate!

For example, it says that atomicpoet.org is blocking Threads when, in fact, this is not correct. So view this entire site with skepticism.

https://fedipact.veganism.social/

@fediversenews