Mastodawn

My entire website is 44MB in size. Most of this are images of course.

Yesterday 1,2GB of data was transferred from my webserver, including EVERY image several dozen times.

Either a lot of people discovered my blog last week and spent the whole day reading ALL of my posts, or there's some AI scraping going on again.

I'd hate to do it, but I'm seriously considering putting some Anubis or Cloudflare protection in front of it. Stuff like this really pisses me off...

#blogging #blog #linkdump

New blog post:

I can't tell reality and satire apart anymore
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/06/i-can-t-tell-reality-and-satire-apart-anymore/

#blogging #blog

I can't tell reality and satire apart anymore - 82MHz

Andreas (82mhz)Jun 20

New blog post:

Linkdump No 60
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/06/linkdump-no-60/

Linkdump No 60 - 82MHz

I found my sister's old phone today. The battery was dead, but when I plugged it in it acutally started up. It initializes to 1/1/2009.

Look at this thing! It's adorable! Why don't phones look like this anymore? Can we have this back?

mhd Jun 19

@82mhz The original Palm Pre remains the canonical standard for smartphone looks and ergonomics to me.

@mhd Fully agree. I had one of those for a little while, and I wish they'd have continued making them. Thanks HP 🙄

Anita Lewis Jun 19

@82mhz

That looks a bit like my flip phone without the keyboard. I love the size and shape and am glad I have it. I'm hoping they don't go away like that one did.

@ajlewis2
I wish they brought some of the old form factors back, like flip phones or ones with a sliding screen and a physical keyboard. And SMALL ones! Everything is so huge these days...

IrgndSonDepp Jun 19

@82mhz I had an HTC Desire Z, might have been my first Android phone.
I miss it a lot. The hardware keyboard would have been a game-changer for Termux. 😅

Dom 🦻Jun 19

@irgndsondepp @82mhz My wife had this phone, too! She loved, loved, loved that phone and still compared each phone to it.

@irgndsondepp
I'm still mad that they stopped making phones with physical keyboards. I never liked on screen keyboards, I only put up with them because I have to.

Dom 🦻Jun 19

@82mhz I would totally carry one. Swap SIMs and just use on the weekends.

@cinimodev
It would make for a great digital detox-device, because you can't do anything other than make phone calls with it nowadays 😄
If they made this thing with modern connectivity and a bit more oomph (the UI is pretty sluggish), I'd absolutely buy one.

Pikario

Jun 21

@82mhz oh I have one similar! I remember using the builtin RSS reader 🤓

@pikario
This can do RSS? I think I have to get one now 😄

Pikario

Jun 21

@82mhz yes! It may depend on the model but mine was a Samsung Player Star.
But maybe it may not work today because of the change of root ssl certificates, to be tested

@pikario
It probably won't work, you're right. Not just because of the root certificates but also connectivity... I'm pretty sure this device has at most 3G connectivity, and the 3G network is turned off here in Germany. Don't know if it has WiFi, but even if it does, it will be limited to WEP and maybe WPA1 encryption, which isn't secure anymore.