Mastodawn

...“now I know Jennifer Aniston can stress-test infrastructure."

Website backup crippled by 1.6MB Friends GIF that was replicated 246,173 times, breaking Linux's EXT4 filesystem limit | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/web-hosting/friends-gif-cripples-website-discussion-platform-backup-with-377-gigabytes-of-rachels-happy-dance-1-6mb-animation-was-replicated-246-173-times-breaking-filesystem-limit

Website backup crippled by 1.6MB Friends GIF that was replicated 246,173 times, breaking Linux's EXT4 filesystem limit — Jennifer Aniston's 'happy dance' animation ate up 377 gigabytes of data due to security policy

Admins were not happy. Initial attempts to resolve the issue by replacing files with hardlinks also failed due to ext4’s 65,000 hardlink limit.

Tom's Hardware

Violet@Ice:~$💜

Apr 7

Anyone familiar with #lamp stack admin/setup? I was interested in testing this #nova thing by anodyne, but getting that shit to work in a qemu VM was proving an absolute bitch with #apache2 and I know even less about #nginx . Planning on throwing it on one of the bsd distros listed on starlight's list ideally, or even in a docker container if I can.
#askfedi
#webadmin

Krishean Draconis Mar 27

started getting a bunch of rapid hits on the site with python user agents, that were only after pdf documents (pretty much guaranteed to be bots.) i check the ip addresses and they all trace back to cloud[.]ru (AS208677)

i just blocked the entire AS because i don't need any of that on the site

#WebAdmin #bots

Negative PID SL Mar 23

How to regain access to your website with WP-CLI

https://negativepid.blog/how-to-regain-access-to-your-website-with-wp-cli/

#webAdmin #WPCLI #wordpress #websites #websiteAdministration #accessRecovery #commandLine #Cybersecurity #cyberattacks #cyberThreats #onlineSecurity #negativepid

Regain access to your website with WP-CLI - Negative PID

Have you ever lost access to your WordPress website? Instead of wasting hours with your hosting provider trying to explain why you need their help and

Negative PID

Negative PID SL Mar 8

How to regain access to your website with WP-CLI

https://negativepid.blog/how-to-regain-access-to-your-website-with-wp-cli/

#webAdmin #WPCLI #wordpress #websites #websiteAdministration #accessRecovery #commandLine #Cybersecurity #cyberattacks #cyberThreats #onlineSecurity #negativepid

Regain access to your website with WP-CLI - Negative PID

Have you ever lost access to your WordPress website? Instead of wasting hours with your hosting provider trying to explain why you need their help and

Negative PID

europlus

Mar 8

EDIT: sorted...at least for now.

Gah! Any nginx gurus online 01:00-11:00UTC willing to help me with regex-based redirect rules?!

Teleconference might work best.

Familiarity with DokuWiki and farms a bonus.

Please boost!

#selfhosting #webadmin #nginx #nginxhelp

Baa 🐑Feb 18

Chat, please be sure to serve the Full Chain of TLS certificates or your site will fail TLS verification in some enterprise environments

(and you are technically off-spec).

You can check your configuration using SSL Labs: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
Or locally with the script testssl, with Linux or WSL: https://github.com/testssl/testssl.sh
#TLS #SSL #webadmin

SSL Server Test (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs)

A comprehensive free SSL test for your public web servers.

techUpdate.io Feb 8

reCAPTCHA wird zum braven Auftragsverarbeiter: Google gibt die Datenhoheit ab

https://techupdate.io/google/recaptcha-wird-zum-braven-auftragsverarbeiter-google-gibt-die-datenhoheit-ab/50944/

#technews #datenschutz #dsgvo #googlecloud #recaptcha #webadmin

reCAPTCHA wird zum braven Auftragsverarbeiter: Google gibt die Datenhoheit ab

Google stellt reCAPTCHA zum 2. April 2026 auf Auftragsverarbeitung um. Webseitenbetreiber werden Data Controller - ein wichtiger Schritt für die DSGVO-Konformität.

techUpdate.io

Dan Stowell Jan 27

@freebliss I wouldn't be surprised if there's a bad feedback loop in which "trying it with multiple browsers" automatically looks suspicious, i.e. looking like multiple different agents from one IP. #ddos #webadmin

N-gated Hacker News Jan 21

Ah, the digital era's literary masterpiece: a "403 Forbidden" error, now with a side of #nginx. 📚🚫 Didion's existential musings have clearly transcended into the realm of server permissions, where the only thing slouching is the web admin's competence. 🤦‍♂️🔒
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/didion/ #403Forbidden #digitalliterature #webadmin #servererrors #HackerNews #ngated

Slouching Towards Bethlehem | The Saturday Evening Post

In her transformative essay from 1967, Joan Didion takes a closer look at the dark side of the Haight-Ashbury counterculture during the Summer of Love.

The Saturday Evening Post