Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

So @Codeberg suffered from high traffic [1], bringing the site almost down. They managed to fix it by blocking access to one repo that attracted all this traffic for reasons (as of now) unknown to us.

What worries me are the comments under their post pointing at various proprietary, commercial services like Cloudflare, Amazon as the obvious way to mitigate. If we really are at the stage where the internet is so broken that you … (1/2)

[1] https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/113570009001800356

You've heard of the bus factor of an organization, but the prison factor seems much more relevant and likely.

What happens to your project if a core team member goes to prison?

https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/26/corejs_maintainer_jailed_code_release/

There are Syrians following the news right now in the hope that a disappeared loved one is among those being released.

The scale of the suffering caused by Bashar al-Assad is incalculable. #Syria

We were not able to identify the actor who is causing the high load on our systems. We have made the hard decision to temporarily shut off access to a certain project to keep Codeberg available for everyone else.

As soon as we allow web access to a certain project, our system resources are used up within seconds.

Honestly, we are currently out of ideas on how to restore access to Codeberg.org.

We are fighting with extreme traffic and high load for several hours now, we have done the typical procedure to identify and block misbehaving AI crawlers.

However, we are currently having a hard time figuring out details about the ongoing high traffic situation.

I've been reading a lot about Australia's social media ban, and I'm conflicted in many ways.

But then I remember that this is the country that tried to ban Disco Elysium, a fucking masterwork rife with poignant and beautiful themes re: the horrific effects of alcohol and drugs on a person's life, health, and relationships, because some goddamn morons that never looked at it thought it was too pro-drug. Then I feel less conflicted.

look, this internet thing is cool and all, but when do we get color radio?

San Francisco recs please?! My adult kid, who just graduated from college, is touring the US and just got to the SF Bay Area. Would anyone care to suggest destinations or artist collectives for them? Are there any current and innovative art exhibitions? Music concerts- maybe, they like post-punk? Also, wildlife: best birdwatching or short hikes to viewpoints? I remember an urban hike around the twin peaks that I enjoyed.

I have a nasty feeling that the fascists are going to do everything in their power to drive all the good content off of streaming.

I wonder what's available on DVDs at this point? There are some series I love that are possibly in danger due to their queer content -- everything from _Sense8_ to _She-Ra_…

Framasoft the company behind Peertube which is a free and open source YouTube alternative is looking for donations to reach their budget for 2025.

Please donate if you can!

https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

#tech #technology #OpenSource #DonateNow #Peertube #degoogle #framasoft

EFF supporters helped us crowdfund a legal challenge to stop the "podcasting patent." Now the U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would ban EFF and other non-profits from ever filing such a petition. Let's stop it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/prevail-act-would-wreck-us-patent-review-system

Please don’t cross the picket line.

Amazons workers across 20 countries, including the United States, are striking against what the organizing labor union calls anti-worker and anti-democratic practices.

https://www.wfxrtv.com/homepage-video/amazon-worker-strike-expected/

#UnionStrong #BlackFriday

The European Federation of Journalists, #EFJ, says starting January 20, it will discontinue posting content on the #ElonMusk-owned #SocialMedia platform #X.

In a statement on its website, EFJ says it can no longer ethically participate in a social network whose owner peddles #disinformation and #propaganda.

#EuropeanFederationOfJournalists
#Journalism #Europe

https://europeanjournalists.org/blog/2024/11/26/x-odus-efjeurope-account-will-be-frozen-from-20-january-2025/

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Did you know we are building a wiki of tutorials and resources inspired by our sessions?

Our goal is to create hands-on modules on topics like game development, cybersecurity, web development, and more — anything our rangatahi are interested in. While it’s still in its infancy, we’re excited to grow it over the next few years.

Everything is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 or AGPLv3+, with contributions from rangatahi, kaiako and industry.

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#resources #opensource

After some time of trying mastodon, I quite like it here and will probably stay so it's maybe time for an introduction:
I'm a student in physical #oceanography in northern germany and mainly here for finding interesting research related content. Second interest is just general #opensource stuff & programming and third is politics.
For the research part I'm mostly a fan of #hydrothermalvents , #oceans , #climate , the #arctic , #antarctic , #glaciers , #seaice but also #ships and more.

@iris_meredith I love how obnoxious people are on LinkedIn, holy moly. It's incredible that these people like, manage to navigate society

@stephen 'Enterprise Software' = software so overpriced & inept that it's like a digital 'Big Lie' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie) and big, slow, stupid, legacy ('enterprise-class') businesses buy into it because they can't imagine anything that brash and costly could be a fraud. I marvel every day that the 'enterprise' is still a thing, given how inefficient, ineffectual, and unappealing nearly all the self-proclaimed examples I've encountered are...

"Enterprise" has always included a rolling of the eyes and negative connotations when I use that, and I do explain that to people when I'm giving them a tour and say, "and this is our *Enterprise* ___" which fortunately only applies to one system I touch.

Unfortunately, those with purchasing power have positive connotations attached to "Enterprise". Nobody ever got fired for buying Big Blue? Nobody learned the lessons from Mythical Man Month!

@lightweight @stephen