Yes daddy!

Yeah, I really have put too much time into replying to all these based solely on a hypothetical. But I did learn something from all these comments (technical something, not me being an idiot), so it’s all good.

Cool. My mesh doesn’t have that though (I think?). But admittedly that’s a tangent. If IPv4 ever depreciates, I’ll have to toss my mesh anyway.

Happy birthday! 🥳🎂🍥

… Can’t believe this thing is literally older than me…

No. But if this is true (which I do doubt completely, Linus can’t be this dumb to singlehandedly cripple his OS), this should also affect every intranet address.

The current description of IPv6 intranet is just ridiculously dumb anyway. Should I want to ssh into a local device, I’ll have to type in for example fd9e:9aa0:c00f:1::a, with only the fd part being the same for all intranets rather than 192.168.1.10 with 192.168 generally always being the same.

Edit: wait… Are you telling me to set DNS redirects on all my local devices? Yeah, that’ll work, but why the even…

Well I’m not going to switch away my perfectly functional mesh routers that uses IPv4 as using IPv6 on a local net that I may sometimes need to type in manually is rather stupid. And that would also bin my routers, so I’m not doing that either.

Oh well, I guess it’s been fun guys, no more Linux for me due to potential future security issues.

Hey, if you need any assistance, I happen to be a DevOps engineer. Not sure how much help I could give, and my own $job comes first too as well of course, but I’m sure there’s a bit of overlap somewhere where my skills may be of assistance if you need me for something specific and small to be implemented, and I’m quick at the pickup at least.

I’m also familiar with Docker. Though granted, in CICD (create/build/destroy) scenarios, not in persistent hosting.

Leave me alone. I have enough drama from my job already, I don’t need more outside work hours.

sudo bash -c 'yes | rm -r'

Ouch, that’s just so annoying. Maybe some sort of human challenge for anyone that’s not authenticated whenever the server load is high could help?..

Edit: unless the scraping is coming from the ActivityPub protocol as a bunch of instances trying to federate (or something? I’m still not familiar with how it all works, besides the payloads looking like a bunch of .json), in which case, my suggestion probably wouldn’t apply all that well.

Looks like Reddthat is back. The upgrade was a success I hope?

If it’s tax, you could pull the “you might be doing tax fraud (or some other kind of fraud if it doesn’t work that way) by keeping the tax dollars only” card. I’ve done that before for a restaurant charging tax on the discounted part of their menu. I could readily believe that it was just some bug in the POS, it only added up to about less than $2 in total, and it certainly wasn’t worth the trouble for myself to be bring it up. But those ~$2 per bill really would add up in hurting a lot of people unfairly in a very tiny way. That and that the restaurant would likely (probably?) get a very unpleasant surprise visit from revenue if they had kept it up.

Not sure how it works in Australia, but surely they could put that in as some sort of sales tax reversal or something and not need to pay for services not rendered.

Feels really nice to see my contribution at work improving a community that is so accepting. You’re very quick on that too!

It’s nice to see a small and pleasant community grow. We really do need much more of these these days, maybe not all in one place or we may unintentionally emulate the social media giants in result if not in ideal despite our best intentions, but much more of it, in every corner of the internet.

Edit: I’m not talking about Reddthat in any way, by the way. I’m just mildly (very mildly for now) concerned when looking at Lemmy.world. It’s not what their doing, or how their doing it. It’s the size of that instance and the number of large communities that spring up there. I’m happy for them for reaching the size they have, but federation and decentralization are very powerful stuff that would prevent any one ideal from a very small few people from dominating. We’ll all benefit from a diverse set of opinions, even if I would disagree harshly with some of them. And having them all in one place would necessarily prevent that from happening while leaving little room for alternatives.

[email protected] (a game I had fond memories of) was a community in Lemmy.world. There are traces of it’s existence and once some decent activity from the outside (src), but I don’t know what happened to it at all. It’s just gone… Maybe it’s been put into private visibility, which would be the best case scenario, but I can’t help but worry that something else might have happened to it. It’s a really wholesome community elsewhere on Reddit and YouTube, and it would be a shame if it no longer exists in Lemmy when it once did.

We really do need that decentralization and “replication” of similar communities across different instances run by different people to not have that happen as much. Even if just to protect from a server going down completely like Lemm.ee, as well as the seeming ending of a community by other means.

Um, sorry for the long post. I just had some stuff on my mind, I didn’t intend to make it this long when I did the edit.

I could have sworn rounding up would’ve been just enough to cover it. But after fees, I’ve appeared to have fallen just short.

But that should be okay, this should help relieve you of that donation stress for the year ahead I hope.

So, seeing as how it is now at $19.63/week, and assuming you’re not getting any donations from anywhere else…

You’re short about just under A$38/month.

It wouldn’t be fair for you to both maintain the server on your own time and pay for it out of your own pocket…

Ah, why not. Here’s a year’s worth of $38/month (A$456) to tide you over.