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selfNov 15

instance changelog: iocaine, metrics, and the treat

https://awful.systems/post/6285778

instance changelog: iocaine, metrics, and the treat - awful.systems

3 days ago on the 12th I pushed a new version of the awful.systems infrastructure flake [https://codeberg.org/awful-systems/awful-systems] and our production ruggedized Lemmy fork [https://codeberg.org/awful-systems/philthy] to try and fix the problem where AI scrapers would come in and push over the instance, resulting in a bunch of 503s and general slowness. I’m happy to announce we’re now running with iocaine [https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/], which seems to have fixed things nicely – though as always, let me know if anything seems off and ping me on Mastodon if the instance goes down. in addition to iocaine, I’ve added a suite of live metrics available to instance admins and moderators. if I haven’t sent you credentials for this yet and you think you should have them, shoot me a message. I apologize that these changes took me so long to get working, but I’m very happy they seem to be effective. I’ve also got some notes on running iocaine in production I can share with any interested parties, and I’ll be reaching out to iocaine’s developer with some suggestions around making it a little bit easier to work with, since at this point it’s a crucial part of running an independent web site. ## the treat is still in the oven

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ignore that hiccup that was me
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it’s up! this time it went smoothly enough that it’s been up for a bit as I’ve finished a few last bits and pieces. so far it looks like everything’s holding steady enough, but I’m keeping an eye on things for now. the treat I mentioned is in the oven.
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test 2
selfNov 11

scheduled downtime: November 12 at 8 AM GMT [iocaine, better metrics, and eventually a treat]

https://awful.systems/post/6247946

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things are happening

I’m still kicking the tires but if this works then there might be a bit of downtime soon to make sure scrapers see more of this

test iocaine - a.s dev

testttttt

selfNov 10

test iocaine

https://awful.systems/post/6227941

test iocaine - awful.systems

testttttt

selfNov 10

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

https://awful.systems/post/6227037

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025 - awful.systems

Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no. If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high. > The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be) > > Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

Show threadselfOct 4
I accidentally omitted the receipt for suckless so check that out in the answer key if you didn’t see it in there before
selfOct 4

now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

https://awful.systems/post/5833209

now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1 - awful.systems

(adapted from a series of mastodon posts [https://mas.to/@zzt/115272477801664683] that somewhat blew up, so the format’s going to be weird) why not embrace fashtech! they’ve got: - terrible Fisher-Price CSS - the most toxic part of the Wayland ecosystem, and that’s saying something - the worst part of the X11 ecosystem, and that’s saying something - suckless tools and they all fucking suck - corporate control over the packages you wrote, for your own protection - distributed functional programming that doesn’t function or distribute - a non-working web browser moving to a proprietary language that only supports macs, which appears to exist purely to divert funding away from Servo (for anyone posting to tell me Swift technically isn’t proprietary, here’s how that’s going [https://mas.to/@zzt/115299116586423052]) - a working chromium fork whose only business purpose is to push slop extruders and a scam cryptocurrency - a web browser which runs single-process so that if a single website freezes or crashes then the entire session freezes or crashes (credit: 2something [https://transfem.social/notes/ad7lla3cb30y0gc0]) - “diverse sponsorship” but it’s all MilTech companies; you’re surrounded by a rich market! of drone and other murder manufacturers (credit: @froztbyte@awful.systems [/u/froztbyte@awful.systems] [https://awful.systems/u/froztbyte]) - slop extruders - cryptocurrencies if you’re puzzled by the above vaguepost, I’ve written a little answer key: ::: spoiler answer key and further discussion, in order of urgency the package repositories currently being taken over are RubyGems and NixOS’ nixpkgs. it’s quite well known that DHH, a Shopify board member, is behind the corporate takeover of RubyGems. he’s also coordinating openly on Twitter with the defense contractor Anduril and other actors to ensure that nixpkgs meets an even worse fate. this is the culmination of a long project to make Nix fascist. DHH and the fascists taking over Nix being in league might seem too convenient to be true, so here’s some links. these are just analysis, but if you click through to Twitter you’re going to get hit in the face with bare bigotry so fair warning: https://fedi.slightly.tech/@joepie91/statuses/01K6AHA0BNBBX616JGDJHYET36 [https://fedi.slightly.tech/@joepie91/statuses/01K6AHA0BNBBX616JGDJHYET36] https://fedi.slightly.tech/@joepie91/statuses/01K6E3G2Z19M82BWRB3SPADHP9 [https://fedi.slightly.tech/@joepie91/statuses/01K6E3G2Z19M82BWRB3SPADHP9] https://mstdn.games/@KFears/115286316219357517 [https://mstdn.games/@KFears/115286316219357517] the tactics the fascists used to take over nixpkgs and RubyGems are old, and they worked. now that they know their tactics work, they’ll be coming for other projects. also publicly coordinating with DHH on Twitter are the guy who started Tailwind (terrible Fisher-Price CSS) Adam Wathan and the leader of the Ladybird web browser Andreas Kling; both are actively brainstorming with DHH ways to make their projects more hostile to non-fascists. while the Tailwind guy turning fash might be surprising, Andreas has a bunch of fash shit on his Twitter and a history. now’s maybe the time to stop advocating for that unserious non-working web browser the fash papertrail for Ladybird really shouldn’t have to go much farther than them receiving money from fascists in a group that included other fascists but here’s more anyway: https://possum.city/notes/a504c0e7vwdj000h [https://possum.city/notes/a504c0e7vwdj000h] I legitimately do not know how this shitty browser got so popular on fedi, but Andreas controls it so tightly he pretty much single-handedly switched all future development to Swift over his own community’s objections anyway, hyprland is the most toxic part of Wayland. no I won’t dig up links, type “hyprland toxic” into a search engine of your choice. other parts of Wayland fucking suck too. but speaking of fucking sucking, XLibre is a fash X server that also barely works, because the point of fash tech isn’t that it works, the point is that it’s metaphorically and sometimes literally a weapon. see also the defense contractor currently taking over Nix, but see also the OG fash language, Urbit, the worst functional programming language I’ve ever known Urbit is fractally wrong; every part of it that claims to be original isn’t, every time it claims to be distributed it’s a lie, and when it claims to work it’s almost definitely broken, though you wouldn’t know cause it was written by an asshole trying to convert Hacker News types to neoreaction and it worked ask me about Urbit, I have so many notes the Chromium fork is Brave, a browser by an asshole that claims to be privacy-focused but which is there to push LLMs and cryptocurrencies the single-process browser is PaleMoon, whose developers seem like real pieces of work [https://transfem.social/notes/adbloc077xyg05bl] please “enjoy” the suckless developers doing a torchlight hike in coordination with the nazi Unite the Right rally. one of their core devs says this was just a coincidence! two of the links are that same guy ranting about fucking cultural marxism! https://tilde.team/~ben/suckmore/ [https://tilde.team/%7Eben/suckmore/] there’s more but if you don’t see it from this, you don’t give a fuck about fascism, you’re here to do evangelism deep breath LLMs are slop extruders made by fascists that further fascist goals [citation not needed] if you scratch a guy who’s really into cryptocurrencies, you find a guy who’s really into turning the world into a Bitcoin Citadel, a neoreactionary form where anyone who isn’t cryptowealthy is a slave: https://decrypt.co/84125/the-bizarre-rise-of-the-bitcoin-citadel [https://decrypt.co/84125/the-bizarre-rise-of-the-bitcoin-citadel] ::: got a favorite I didn’t list? comment with your receipts!