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Rimu

@ rimu @piefed.social

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Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

  • fail2ban behind reverse proxy (nom)

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  • I used fail2ban as an anti-scraper strategy for a few months. It helped with the really basic scrapers that only use one or a few IP addresses.

    But then they adapted and started using hundreds or thousands of different IP addresses, each one only making a couple of requests. fail2ban became counter-productive as it slowed my server down - the log files it was monitoring became massive under high load and it needs to scan the log files often to check if an IP has been seen before.

    I'm not saying don't try it, I'm saying it's only effective in some situations.

  • I don't enjoy the Internet any more

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  • Also you are using piefed.social which aggressively filters out AI content, the topic of the article.

  • What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server.

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  • It's always dns at least half the time

  • What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server.

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  • haha looks like you're aaalmost at the point where water cooling is compulsory.

    Is it a Threadripper? I built a couple of those for architectural rendering, such absolute beasts.

  • What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server.

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  • Nice chonky heatsink, goddam

  • Someone didn't like me posting such "awful" fried rice last week. So I'm reflecting on what they said and...

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  • There's always more ways to criticise than there are ways to agree so the comments create a negative atmosphere. Upvotes don't balance them out because comments carry more emotional weight. Votes are nearly empty, emotionally, so it takes hundreds of upvotes to counter a single negative comment.

    This is built into the structure of the threadiverse and it skews things towards the negative. I'm pondering ways to counter that but I'm not optimistic about finding a solution.

  • Baked potatos

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  • Yes it's pretty fun. It's impossible to pretend that multiculturalism has been perfect and always great but I think it's turning out better here than in most places. This shows up in the food and in other areas.

  • Baked potatos

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  • The indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand have their own style of cooking in an earth oven which is also used throughout the Pacific Islands. It produces very smokey meat which some people love. Not me. These days it's only used on special occasions when many people come together.

    All the immigrants who arrived since the 19th century (about 90% of the current population) eat a melting pot from all over the world. Lots of European influence (emphasis on UK and Italy), lots of Asian influence. Turkish, Mexican, the usual.

  • Baked potatos

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  • salivating emoji

  • What have you completely stopped buying because the price has gotten ridiculus?

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  • Milk, cheese and butter.

    My country produces 10x more dairy products than we need. But they're sold to the highest bidder globally and that ain't me.

  • AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?

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  • It's possible to win lots of battles but still lose the war. You can ask Trump about that :)

  • I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot?

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  • check this out!

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    I measured the idle RAM of 19 self-hosted apps on identical hardware so you can size a VPS without guessing

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  • Completely useless...

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    I measured the idle RAM of 19 self-hosted apps on identical hardware so you can size a VPS without guessing

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  • Yes

  • [AskLemmy Meta]: Should bot posts be banned in AskLemmy.world?

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  • You shouldn't need to - your instance admins should ban them.

    Upvote for YES, Downvote for NO.

  • How to get non technical friends in the fediverse?

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  • Is Python really that useless?

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  • This is your second post about this and you got the same response last time.

    Try a third post, maybe it'll go differently next time.

  • How to get non technical friends in the fediverse?

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  • They should switch BECAUSE they're addicted to the algorithm :D

    Maybe start a discussion about how being addicted to Instagram isn't a great use of time and recommend Pixelfed as a less addictive alternative.

  • How to get non technical friends in the fediverse?

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  • Keep it really simple. Don't talk about federation or how it works under the hood. Just say something like "hey I see you like Instagram - try Pixelfed I think you'll like it. It's in the app store".

    Don't get them to try to find the perfect pixelfed instance, just use the default main one. They can move later if it clicks for them.

  • Recommendations for opensource Jetbrains equivalents?

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  • I don't know of any other IDE maker that has the depth and quality of language support that JetBrains offers.

    Honestly, throwing your toys over a modal commit dialog seems a bit misguided when switching to any other IDE is going to involve coping with much bigger changes.

    You have the option of using an old version if the newer ones aren't to your style. I'm still on the 2023 version of PyCharm, for instance. And the 2020 version of PhpStorm, haha

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Rimu @piefed.social

    AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants

    www.bbc.com /worklife/article/20240214-ai-recruiting-hiring-software-bias-discrimination
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Rimu @piefed.social

    OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion

    decrypt.co /216731/openai-considers-7-trillion-round-thinks-it-can-double-revenue-by-2025-reports
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Rimu @piefed.social

    FediForum, an online unconference for discussing the future of the Fediverse, 19-20 March

    fediforum.org