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@ michael @piefed.chrisco.me

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  • Ageless Linux - Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age

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  • First time Ive heard about Milk-V Duo S. Interesting. Looks very cheap!

  • Peertube Chain of Trust and Follower Index

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  • will do! Thanks again!

  • Peertube Chain of Trust and Follower Index

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  • Piped.chrisco.me

    I removed a couple. Mostly porn. I dont really need that for the family. But that was 2 servers out of hundreds.

  • Peertube Chain of Trust and Follower Index

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  • So!! I went from 60 instances to over 900 in the span of less than 24 hours! Also most of the content is pretty good. So thats nice.

  • Peertube Chain of Trust and Follower Index

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  • no rush! thanks.

  • Peertube Chain of Trust and Follower Index

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  • Peertube Chain of Trust and Follower Index

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  • So im not seeing the option for "Automatically follow platforms of a public index" after federation.

    I believe(?) I found it under Settings->Configuration->Basic:

    Automatically follow instances of a public index⚠️ This functionality requires a lot of attention and extra moderation.See the documentation for more information about the expected URL

    Im going to replace the main https://instances.joinpeertube.org/ with your index and see what happens.

  • Peertube Chain of Trust and Follower Index

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  • Ill give it a shot and let you know how it goes!

  • What are things that bring you joy?

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  • Looking forward to the new book! DCC 😁

  • This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.

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  • nice!

  • Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt

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  • Im not sure. I agree with you.

    All I can tell you is that my server was hammered by a couple of IP addresses. When I did a lookup they were ALL openai and they just would not stop. Until I added protection that is. Then they got bogged down and eventually stopped.

    Ive heard talk that their engineers said they dont need to abide by robots.txt since they are not an indexer like google. Which is BS.

  • Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt

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  • The bigger companies are looking at robots.txt to see if they can scan your stuff for AI scraping purposes. I get a couple from google, bing and others. Im not sure about facebook, but I do see the bigger ones usually abide by robots.txt and stop there. It doesn't stop them from hammering your robots.txt though.

    If you get fail2ban and/or block the ip range from one actor, it usually goes away.

    The worst offenders is openai which does NOT hit robots.txt and just scrapes/DDOS my small site. Until I put in a couple of infinite loop/nefarious solutions on the server. Then you have fail2ban see what ip addresses try and go deep and block them.

  • Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?

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  • I just downvote and move on.

    Can we get some examples? I just took a look and i dont see any ai posts here?

  • A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 4: backups

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  • It sure makes things easy to host!

  • Chicken Fried Rice

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  • He later goes and talks to the lady who did the segment. It makes me smile because even she says its the BBC recipe thats the issue haha.

  • Chicken Fried Rice

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  • Looks delish!

  • Chicken Fried Rice

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  • Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers

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  • Oh interesting! Ive done something similar but not didnt put as much effort.

    For me, I just made an unending webpage that would create a link to another page...that would say bullshit. Then it would have another link with more bullshit....etc...etc...And it gets slower as time goes on.

    Also made a fail2ban banning IPs that reached a certain number of links down. It worked really well, traffic is down 95% and it does not affect any real human users. Its great :)

    I have a robots.txt that should tell them not to look at the sites. But if they dont want to read it, I dont want to be nice.

  • Is it just me has there been a lot of Spam and abuse on Lemmy lately?

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  • Same. Its been pretty great!

  • Linux @programming.dev
    Mike @piefed.chrisco.me

    Good command line ebook reader?

  • Linux @programming.dev
    Mike @piefed.chrisco.me

    There is something mildy infuriating about Discord putting Tux behind a paywall.

  • Programming @programming.dev
    Mike @piefed.chrisco.me

    Terminal-Based Web Browsing With Modern Conveniences

    hackaday.com /2026/01/01/terminal-based-web-browsing-with-modern-conveniences/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Mike @piefed.chrisco.me

    A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 2: installation & setup - Elena Rossini

    blog.elenarossini.com /a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-2-installation-setup/