me, cat, citrus trees, house, car, all soaking up the sun before 6 inches of snow dump on us tomorrow

eff is constitutionally incapable of making this statement

https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/113794742431836312

Mind, this is not a kneejerk reaction for me. I've been keeping track for about a decade of the extent that the EFF criticized governments vs the extent they criticized major corporations. I can take the libertarian leanings as long as good things are being accomplished. At the same time, I saw how much that tendency was leaving on the table.

But once I associate you with corporate lickspittle to the extent I now do, how do you ever come back from that?

eff eff

getting a pallet load of solar ground mounts delivered on Monday and with the snow forecast, maybe I will be able to drag them half a mile up the driveway as a sled train, rather than wheelbarrowing them. lol

up to 775000 unique ips crawling my gitweb

starting consulting on "leveraging blockchain to supercharge AI training"

$$$

... I'll just be teaching their scrapers how to tell they're crawling gitweb, and do a git clone

solar fence rules on a snow day, making plenty of power without needing any cleaning

Did some further investigation and I was wrong about the causalty here -- there was an ongoing crawl distributed amoung thousands of IP addresses before the fast crawl that I blocked.

Both crawls did start at close enough to the same time that they might be linked somehow, but blocking one didn't trigger the other one.

imagine using a botnet of 600 thousand unique ip addresses for days and all you get is a few git repositories you could have cloned in seconds

running at 200 new unique IPs per minute now, no problem, keep em coming

thing is, 80k hits is a tiny amount of hits when you're not running expensive perl scripts.. gitweb is a pig though and its load average checks are a joke when there are 500 of them all running before they are able to check load

70 thousand unique ips now

I have enough (non-ip-blocking) amelorations in place that things are working again now.

40 thousand unique IPs and still climbing

DDOS seems to be from all chinese IPs although the initial scraper was running on google cloud

the person I got thru to didn't even treat this chicken and egg problem as a problem, it was just "ok, I'll get you that information"

And I'm down with that, didn't press the issue. Let's keep Blue Cross's onboarding procedure a mess, it's a useful signal I'm sure.

blocked 2 IP addresses that were crawling gitweb with scrapy and causing a server load of > 500, and a minute later was hit by a full DDOS attack from hundreds of IP addresses all trying to access gitweb

I have disabled gitweb access unfortunately, it's too tempting a target for these asshats

37 minute estimated hold wait lol

changed health insurance to Blue Cross, and got an email saying "your membership card is digital, log into website or use app to get it"

Tried to log into the website, and to register for an account they require information from your ID card.

srsly?

My offgrid EV charge control code has gotten a bit more tuned. Yesterday it was mostly cloudy and snowy, still once the house battery charged up enough, it decided to charge the car for about an hour and a half on and off, and the day ended with the house battery at 100%, so I had plenty of power in the evening to bake some banana bread.

it's snowing and I'm thinking about a week in June

Just because every git-annex issue I've dealt with today came from that week, when I was too busy to keep up.

So many other summer weeks to catch up on this winter..

no #unicode symbol for EV charging, guess I'll go with ⚇ as close enough

what is the nethack symbol for a credit score anyway?

new level of dsytopia just dropped