Incessant tinkerer since the 70’s. Staunch privacy advocate. SelfHoster. Musician of mediocre talent. https://soundcloud.com/hood-poet-608190196

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  • I have blocked much of the Digital Ocean IP space

    Over the years, I have blocked the entire probably Digital Ocean spectrum, a ton of Linode, clients.your-server.de, a long string of them. It used to make me paranoid I was setting up something wrong. I’d fire up a brand new, untouched server, and boom! Here they’d come. Then I thought, maybe it was a few Docker containers pushing analytics to a collector. Upon blocking them tho, nothing seemed to malfunction. So instead of trying mitigate each and every offending IP, I switched to a deny all until something complains posture, and block by ip ranges. I can still see them trying to gain access, but as long as I can keep them out on the edge, everything is golden.

    Some ISPs basically advertise to criminals about their ability to evade take down orders and unwillingness to work with law enforcement.

    There are Russian ISPs that advertise VPS services and such by the hour. I’m sure there are other ISPs in other countries that do the same. Nothing good could be coming out of that. When you consider that the internet gobbles through 14,000,000+/- petabytes per 24 hours, and 40%+/- is bot traffic, the picture gets a bit clearer, because that’s a shit load of bots, and they are sophisticated bots at that.


  • How about a clarification to what Rule 1 actually means. If we are going to abide by the downvote system, and if we are to be cival, supportive, and not be insulting, and if we are all indeed adults, then rule 1should kick in somewhere I would assume.

    • OP: Here’s my superduper fantasmgorical app. It’s so good it’ll make your dick hard.
    • Potential User: Is it opensource? Is it vibe coded? is it a paid for product?
    • OP: Yeah or no or explanation
    • Potential User: Ok, that’s not my bag really, Thanks anyways.

    Then exit the thread, and downvote if you must, but do it like a civil adult. What good does it do to denigrate and outright trounce another user if you just so happen to not agree with their product or how they do something? Hive mind leads to gatekeeping, and gatekeeping leads to reddit.

    If it’s AI, it’s 2026 and AI isn’t going away. It is a safe assumption that at some point in the production chain, AI was used in some form or fashion. But it doesn’t give me clearance to rail on the OP and be downright insulting. Just exit the thread and hit the button. No need for the hatred and anger. Let the mod be the mod if need be. How much more civil and adult can that get? There have been a few outright adverts for paid for services. But again, those should fall under the downvote system and not the bullying system.

    Does it read like a post from a person?

    I think sometimes we forget that others do not natively speak the English language and use AI to help them communicate coherently much like Americans think that there is only America. Gosh I know I would would if I were addressing say a Korean forum.

    How old is the account?

    If you want to go that route then say so in the sidebar. Something to the effect of new users must participate in threads before unveiling their project. I’ve been to many forum that had that encoded into the forum itself where you had to participate in x number of posts before you could start your own post.

    It’s not really that hard to be nice.


  • (Yes i’m new to the community lol)

    That’s totally cool man.

    So in a nutshell, the reason for my network is rather multi-faceted. I dig on privacy, anonymity, and security so I run my network. It’s also a learning platform, as I do indeed love to learn new things that I didn’t know. I also just totally love technology, so selfhosting clicks with me. I also like dabbling in automation, minor programing. Additionally, I use things like Readeck because I’m always ‘clipping articles’ to read later, things that catch my fancy. I am a prolific reader. I selfhost my on Navidrome instance so I can listen to my own personal collection of music wherever I am. It’s really just a huge playground for an old soul.