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@_elena@mastodon.social I received the exact same response, word for word, which is understandable I do wish they didn't downplay it so much

Hilarious #ByteDance #BytePlus

@cassolotl @freakboy3742 honestly it's surprising from disney, shilling merch is like their thing... It's a huge missed opportunity for riordan and has led to some scam site pretending to be official PJ merch https://www.reddit.com/r/camphalfblood/comments/1g9t7y1/is_this_official_and_legit_percy_jackson_merch/

@redstrate@mastoart.social @jsstaedtler@mastodon.art Many crawlers ignore this in my experience, especially the AI ones

#Luanti ContentDB is currently receiving the same crawler pattern but looks like the mitigations I've made have resulted in all the requests being blocked rather than overloading the web app. I should block the byteplus ISP completely

@oblomov@sociale.network @redstrate@mastoart.social @jsstaedtler@mastodon.art Yeah. Crawlers also use a sensible user agent whereas scrapers pretend to be actual users

@jsstaedtler@mastodon.art To block the abusive subnets, I used this tool to look up the IP ranges from example IP addresses. You can see all the IP ranges for a particular host: https://www.whatismyip.com/asn/AS150436/ I then blocked using ipset/iptables but other options exist depending on your setup

@redstrate@mastoart.social @jsstaedtler@mastodon.art Ah yes, worth doing as it also improves your SEO by not having thousands of similar pages

@jsstaedtler@mastodon.art The exact thing has happened to me recently with the tags. I now require users to log in to filter by multiple tags and I've blocked the subnets of the bots If I wanted to allow guest users to search by multiple tags, I'd probably try the following options - (1) changing it to a POST request (2) requiring JavaScript (3) using Anubis (4) looking into ip masked rate limiting, so a rate limit for like multiple ip addresses in the same block I wrote a blog post about my situation here https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2026/04/16/contentdb-ddos/

@Luanti Cat pics pls

@Edent @openbenches Reminds me of this article, where someone used some old phones to do OCR because it was cheaper than any other option: https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-iphone-racks-building-an-internet-scale-meme-search-engine-Qzrz7V6T.html

@jsstaedtler@mastodon.art For your particular case, you should return a 404 if the URL contains both 2025 and 2026. This would stop them getting into invalid combinations. You can make it so the UI never links to these combinations by *replacing* rather than appending years if one already exists

@lazza@mastodon.social @dottorblaster@fosstodon.org @Luanti@floss.social It's a free conference so it's understandable but a shame

@uint8_t I'm forever resisting the urge to make yet another train game

@foone@digipres.club Steam Controller (2026). I've wanted a controller like the steam deck for a while, happy with it :)

@zak@infosec.exchange I have unattended updates on at the server level. Specific server software is on docker and so requires me to manually go upgrade, helps to avoid breakage

@kenney@mastodon.gamedev.place I've spent enough time playing Factorio, please brain don't be nerd sniped into making it too