Copy and paste it into an AI detector. Especially the bit about the abstraction tower.

That is not the only sign in that blog post, just the most obvious one.

Notice the heavy use of the em-dash throughout that post?

Good to know ☺️

We’ve made a fix for this and I expect the piefed.zip admins will deploy it very soon.

Cloudflare seems to live in a world where AI scrapers are ethical and lawful.

Is there any way to know this is legit?

OpenWRT is basically Linux for routers and can be installed on a variety of devices - https://openwrt.org/

There is also https://www.gargoyle-router.com/

Yes, do the S3 integration before moving, for sure.

Oh right, yeah, Wordpress does tend to use up an awful lot of storage - every image gets copied 5 or 6 times, in different sizes just incase you need that size. It’s nuts.

You don’t need to store those images in your server though, they can be uploaded to S3 (object storage) where it is 10x cheaper to store them and then you can have a cheaper VPS. This way the VPS only needs to have enough storage for your MySQL database.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/

There are many providers of S3-compatible storage, you don’t need to use AWS. Cloudflare R2 is super cheap - https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/developer-platform/products/r2/ or Hetzner - https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/

The inaccuracy is a feature - if you want to really terrorise a population, add a bit of randomness to your violence.

This is good advise, listen to dan. WP Super Cache is amazing although getting it working just right can take some tweaking.

The Redis Object Cache plugin is worth a try. It’ll only take a minute to set up.

Is it 200k users or 200k page loads? Those are really different as each user will load multiple pages in a month. If it’s 200k page loads then that server is way way too powerful (and expensive). Don’t let a crappy developer hide their lack of optimization skills by throwing your money at the problem.

It exists and I’ve tried it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davfs2

Thing is, when an app thinks a directory is on a local disk, it does things which do not scale well over a network. e.g. reading every file in the directory to make thumbnails.

When I do a curl request to the feddit.online API endpoint I can log in fine. If I use an invalid password I get the expected error message.

rimu@rimu-mate2 ~ $ curl --request POST \
  --url https://feddit.online/api/alpha/user/login \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "username": "rimu",
  "password": "valid password"
}'
{"jwt":"some gibberish"}
rimu@rimu-mate2 ~ $ curl --request POST   --url https://feddit.online/api/alpha/user/login   --header 'Content-Type: application/json'   --data '{
  "username": "rimu",
  "password": "invalid password"
}'
{"code":400,"message":"incorrect_login","status":"Bad Request"}

Do you have any nginx rules which block scrapers by inspecting the user agent string? Perhaps that’s catching Voyager.

No advantage, in fact a massive disadvantage.

Fascists lie.

A handful of people - https://mastodon.social/tags/noltosocial

Check out this one I came across earlier - https://github.com/Jtensetti/fediverse-career-nexus/blob/main/README.md

It’s a federated LinkedIn. ofc it’s vibe coded.

Laptop CPUs are crippled garbage compared to desktop CPUs of the same generation. So there’s that.

Is it touching cloth more like when you really really need to go and have been holding it for a long time?