EllieIt sure would be nice if one of these 3 busses was to actually drive the route, instead of lollygaggin at the station together. 20 minutes late on a 15 minute headway route and counting. Now the schedule says a pile of em are going to arrive within 4 minutes of each other. Assuming they actually get underway.
BrianThe trend of having a "virtual assistant" chat pop up the instant a web page is loaded needs to end. It adds insult to injury when you make me confirm that I want to close the chat I didn't open in the first place. The web is already unusable enough. You don't need to make it worse.
So wonderful when well-meaning people slap Cloudflare in front of their artifact store, so CI fails to retrieve assets.
I assure you, tools in the GitHub actions runner cannot identify the fire hydrants. A http/403 & blob of html imploring them to enable cookies & javascript just isn't a valid manifest list.
This is crap.
saint or viscera#complaining but today has been so infuriating.
1. discord glicthed and canceled my nitro after i just got it gifted. do i know if anything can be done? no.
2. i dont know who, but someone keeps sending the RAs to my dorm. its like im constantly being monitored in fear of be killing myself or something, i mean im sure its out of care, but it gets annoying. this has happened 4 times, twice this week including his morning. these RAs today werent even a part of (+)
tabithaQuick Lunchtime Hack: Reducing AI Bots
So yeah, one of my little pet servers (instead of like an hugely well resourced work box) decided to unleash the OOM-killer and whack my long running tmux connection just before I went and made some lunch, which was rude.
Doing a bit of digging it seems like a bunch of AI crawlers was responsible, and being as I was hosting a bunch of little domains and sites for people on this machine I wanted to put something in place to try and reduce the quantity of traffic from these sources
I poked around and found a nice list of known scummy user agents over on the ai.robots.txt project, so I downloaded a copy, then whipped up a quick little something to turn its robots.txt file into a little snippet of Apache config (because I’m not hiding said websites behind haproxy or Caddy or anything, see above, little pet server)
#!/usr/bin/bash
input_file="$1"
if [[ ! -f "$input_file" ]]; then
echo "No input_file '$input_file'"
exit 1
fi
ua_regexp=$( grep "^User-agent:" "$input_file" | cut -d: -f 2 | tr -d ' ' | tr -c -d 'a-zA-Z0-9/\._\-\n' | tr '\n' '|' | sed -e 's/|$//' )
if [[ -n "$ua_regexp" ]]; then
cat <<EOF
BrowserMatchNoCase ".*(${ua_regexp}).*" is_an_ai
<LocationMatch ".*">
<RequireAll>
Require all granted
Require not env is_an_ai
</RequireAll>
</LocationMatch>
EOF
fiThen I can just IncludeOptional the file I generate from that into my vhosting macro and its a one liner that blocks at least quite a lot of AI scrapers.
Nice :) Now just to see if it helps reduce the OOMing or if something else is contributing.
#code #complaining #internet
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseArs Technica: Inside the DHS forum where ICE agents trash talk one another. “Every day, people log into an online forum for current and former Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers to share their thoughts on the news of the day and complain about their colleagues in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/ars-technica-inside-the-dhs-forum-where-ice-agents-trash-talk-one-another/
PareI finished 'The Regicide Report', the last book in the main Laundry series by Charles Stross. (Charlie, if you're reading this, there was a warning!) It reminded me why I don't usually read horror, though. It wasn't unreadable but I was just disappointed.
The series of course is over twenty years old. I started reading it when it first came out.
1/n
SemitonesI am too tired #complaining
jubiloMXLong day... still dealing with work.. at least at home I can watch the #Olympics while working...
#NotBragging, actually #Complaining
LinebylineWriters/typesetters, I beg you, stop using pull quotes.
THE SAME THING YOU'RE ABOUT TO READ IN A BIGGER FONT WITH WORDS MISSING
They look pretty, but at best they're a waste of space. Mostly they're the same thing you just read or are about to read, but in a bigger font, and maybe with some words missing.
At worst, they're actively confusing: Didn't I just read this sentence? Am I lost?
Even in print, please use something else to break up your walls of text.