@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I think I’ll just end up using the Official CrowdSec Go library 🤔
Speaking of WAF(s) / Web Applicaiton Firewalls – I actually had forgotten that not only have I designed a new WAF from scratch, but I’ve actually implemented it already, and done some local testing. I just haven’t put it into production yet… What od you think @aelaraji@aelaraji.com ? 🤔 https://git.mills.io/prologic/caddy-waf
Better Technology, Worse Motivation: GenAI’s Mediocrity Trap
While generative AI (GenAI) promises productive efficiency, it can paradoxically lead to lower-quality work. We conducted an experiment with professional illustrators and found that AI assistance flattens the quality curve—it accelerates initial gains but sharply diminishes the returns on sustained effort. Faced with this, a significant number of professionals made a strategic choice: they sacrificed the final quality to save time.
From http://www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/4/5/114595093/ai_and_motivation.pdf
I haven’t read this and can’t vouch for it; seems vaguely AI-boostery. Still, the conclusions are interesting. This seems to be the picture that is emerging about generative AI generally: most people don’t like it and find that degrades the quality of work. Coders seem to like it and think that it helps them, but in fact it makes the slower, less productive, and more bug prone.
By all measures it’s a bad technology. We should just be honest about it. There is no need to make excuses for multi-trillion-dollar corporations.
Sometimes, (just sometimes) my ability to pattern match and remember how to play perfect games of chess is awesome 😎
5xxs on my end, I'm not dead 😂 (well, unless I am). Well be changing ISPs and hopefully get the new line up and running before the old provider cuts us off.
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Good luck! 🤞
I was having a stroll and heard this weird crackling noise. Took me a moment to realize that it’s coming from the tree above me. I looked up and didn’t see anything at first, because of the bad light. And then I saw it: About 10 parrots (alexandrine parakeets or rose-ringed parakeets) were sitting up there, heaving a feast. 😅
https://movq.de/v/3527326471/parrots.mp4
(Video isn’t great, because this is my smartphone and the light was bad.)
@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe If you’re after a list of bad ASN(s) I have such a list handy here 😂
PSA: Just in case you start getting 5xxs on my end, I’m not dead 😂 (well, unless I am). Well be changing ISPs and hopefully get the new line up and running before the old provider cuts us off.
git.mills.io today (after finishing work) and this is what I found 🤯 Tehse asshole/cunts are still at it !!! 🤬 -- So let's instead see if this works:
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ahhh! That would be even funnier and even more brilliant! 🤣 If you can find this, I would happily employ this tactic next time and make ‘em pay 💰 Bahahahaha 🤣
@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe You would have to pull main and build from source 🤣 I promise I’ll make a new major release soon™ – Only been promising that for a while now, but it will happen this year 🤣
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yeah and I think I can basically pull the crowssec rules every N interval right and use this to make blocking decisions? – I’ve actually considered this part of a completely new WAF design that I just haven’t built yet (just designing it).
Anyone on my pod (twtxt.net) finding the new Filter(s) useful at all? 🤔
config.yaml, and 4 lines Caddyfile, and you will see how easy it is.
@bender@twtxt.net That’s not the problem. The problem is the complex DNS setup and delegation. I’ve gotten it working once before, but it’s not that easy if you don’t intend to run it on the APEX Domain.
So blackholing my Gitea instance’s DNS for the day seemed to have worked 🤣 (if only I had a real target I could have made their fucking crawlers DDoS themselves 😂) – Let’s also see if enabling DDoS proection on the Edge via Vultr’s DDoS capability also helps? 🤔
@prologic@twtxt.net I will share later my GoToSocial 10 lines (or less) config.yaml, and 4 lines Caddyfile, and you will see how easy it is.
Shin’ya M. > doas npfctl table fail2ban list | wc -l
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Up Next:
Twtxt feed support for Kosuzu
A simpler theme for Yarn, perhaps?
@movq@www.uninformativ.de sorry dude I think we’re getting our language confused. I think I actually meant private Internet connections.
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I meant ISPs. Hm, okay. 🤔
Something I caught myself saying earlier in the day:
As a human species we need to stop doing stupid shit™.
–James Mills
T-shirt coming soon™
Tired to re-enable the Ege route to git.mills.io today (after finishing work) and this is what I found 🤯 Tehse asshole/cunts are still at it !!! 🤬 – So let’s instead see if this works:
$ host git.mills.io 1.1.1.1
Using domain server:
Name: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Aliases:
git.mills.io is an alias for fuckoff.mills.io.
fuckoff.mills.io has address 127.0.0.1
PS: Would anyone be interested if I started a massive global class action suit against companies that do this kind of abusive web crawling behavior, violate/disregards robots.txt and whatever else standards that are set in stone by the W3C? 🤔
@bender@twtxt.net Maybe so. But running Mastodon or GotoSocial is actually not as easy as you’d think 😂
@prologic@twtxt.net it would have been so much easy to run your own. I guess we all like to suffer every once and then, and this time is your turn. 😅
@movq@www.uninformativ.de If by that you mean ISP(s)? No. so far most are hosting providers by the looks? 🧐
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ahh that would be awesome!!! I’d also somehow need read access to logs so i can figure shit out on my own 🧐
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Haha! 😂 Welcome back 🙌
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Tell me more? How does this work?
git.mills.io last night and went ot bed at ~2AM after unsuccessfully trying to control the attacks (bad bots) that were behaving like a DDoS attack. Tried to re-enable the route this monring and *BOOM, they're back! As-if they never stopped?! what da actual fuq?! Media Anyone have any clever ideas of what I can do here to allows normal users, like you nice folk and block ths obnoxious traffic?!
@prologic@twtxt.net I’d say give crowdsec a try but I know for sure you prefer your own WAF … 😅
This caveman is getting too old for the Internet… 😅 It took me 1 hrs and 50 mins to catch up with what’s been going on my feed.
Oh fuck me! I had basically turned off the route to git.mills.io last night and went ot bed at ~2AM after unsuccessfully trying to control the attacks (bad bots) that were behaving like a DDoS attack. Tried to re-enable the route this monring and *BOOM, they’re back! As-if they never stopped?! what da actual fuq?!
Anyone have any clever ideas of what I can do here to allows normal users, like you nice folk and block ths obnoxious traffic?!
@zvava@twtxt.net I am waiting for that v1, so that I can start using it. 🙏🏻
@prologic@twtxt.net AI is slot machines for coders:
The same intermittent reward operant conditioning that gets people addicted to gambling and thinking that if they follow certain rituals they’ll win “next time” drives people’s beliefs that AI tools are making them more productive when they’re making them less productive. I’m going to guess that a side effect of this is that people think they’re typing less when in the longer term they’re typing the same amount or more when you factor in the productivity loss (as far as I’ve read the studies don’t measure this so I’m only guessing).
People are also being rapidly de-skilled by this technology: the more they use it, the more their actual skills atrophy. “Continuous exposure to AI might reduce the ADR (adesoma detection rate) of standard non-AI assisted colonoscopy, suggesting a negative effect on endoscopist behaviour.” (science speak for saying that radiologists get worse at seeing tumors in scans once they’ve used AI): https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract
Nobody who cares about the future should be using this stuff for anything.
since there are quite literally no note taking apps that work for me, i’ve began writing my own! to get started real quick i adapted the core part of bbycll’s backend and it works so nicely — which speaks volumes to the quality of the code! should really break it out into a custom framework. i’m also realizing how easy it would be to get bbycll v1 ready…but this is probably more important since it’ll allow me to get my life in order ^^’
@iolfree@tilde.club @movq@www.uninformativ.de So true! Good read, thanks for recommending. :-)
@iolfree@tilde.club They’re not wrong, are they? 😅
funny article gopher://sdf.org/0/users/ictia/phlog/2025-11-23-i-am-done-with-the-web.txt
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I just skip all those merchants who only accept PayPal or credit card.
@prologic@twtxt.net Do these IPs belong to hosting providers or to providers of private internet connections? The latter is what I’m seeing on my server …
Fark me again with the bots. This time DDoS-style crawling from hundreds of IPs and dozens of ASN(s) wtf?!
I’ve had to disale the Ingress to my Git instance for the time being,
i need to sleep and I can’t fight this :/
@prologic@twtxt.net We have a bit of a vendor lock-in here in Germany: PayPal is sometimes the only non-shady option to pay for something. ☹️
https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html
AI systems being egregiously resource intensive is not a side effect — it’s the point.
And someone commented on that with:
I’m fascinated by the take about the resource usage being an advantage to the AI bros.
They’ve created software that cannot (practically) be replicated as open source software / free software, because there is no community of people with sufficient hardware / data sets. It will inherently always be a centralized technology.
Fascinating and scary.
@bender@twtxt.net Just a donations thiny I knew about from years ago that I never setup properly. Now an acceptable form of donation on my prologic.dev site 👌 (if anyone ever does that is!)
@prologic@twtxt.net what’s that?
Bye bye PayPal 👋 Hello LibrePay 👋
When I try to login to PayPal I now see:
Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker
Here’s the thing. PayPal takes fees from transactions and payments received and sent.
I have very right not have ads shoved in my face for something that isn’t actually free in the first place and costs money to use. If PayPal would like to continue to piss off folks me like, then I’ll happily close my PayPal account and go somewhere else that doesn’t shove ads in my face and consume 30-40% of my Internet bandwidth on useless garbage/crap.
@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Haha 🤣 Nice typo there!
@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe I’m mostly against it because it forces Javascript™ on the client(s) at a blanket level. Doing “Proof-of-Work” explicitly IMO is fine™, but not at an Ingress/Edge level IMO – Which is why I haven’t adopted it myself.
One day I’ll like to elaborate why I’m against the usage of Anubis (and its derivatives) for the rampant crawlers
@yarn_police@twtxt.net good thing we got law and order around here. And I mean, literally! 😅