Hereās the thing. PayPal takes fees from transactions and payments received and sent.
I have very right not have ads shoved in my face for something that isnāt actually free in the first place and costs money to use. If PayPal would like to continue to piss off folks me like, then Iāll happily close my PayPal account and go somewhere else that doesnāt shove ads in my face and consume 30-40% of my Internet bandwidth on useless garbage/crap.
(#kzoqkdq) @shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Iām mostly against it because it forces Javascriptā¢ on the client(s) at a blanket level. Doing āProof-of-Workā explicitly IMO is fineā¢, but not at an Ingress/Edge level IMO ā Which is why I havenāt adopted it myself.
(#u3q2tea) @arne@uplegger.eu Das klingt interessant. Aber wer definiert, welche Projekte darunter fallen? Keine Ahnung wie das sonst so mit dem Ehrenamt ist, aber das mĆ¼ssen ja dann auch gemeinnĆ¼tzige Vereine oder etwas Vergleichbares sein, oder? :-?
Wenn ich in der Petition schon wieder KI les, wird mir gleich anders.
(#qjlgy4q) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Probably wouldnāt help, since almost every request comes from a different IP address. These are the hits on those weird /projects URLs since Sunday:
1 IP has 5 hits
1 IP has 4 hits
13 IPs have 3 hits
280 IPs have 2 hits
25543 IPs have 1 hit
The total number of hits has decreased now. Maybe the botnet has moved on ā¦
(#usa342a) @movq@www.uninformativ.de In my current project Iām typically far away from this pile of shit. Letās see how the project will be in this regard.
Not a day goes by at work, where Iām not either infuriated or frustrated by this wave of AI garbage. In my private life, I can avoid it. But not at work. And theyāre pushing hard for it.
(#xyy4hrq) that is to say, chaotic.ninja still exists (although I donāt directly control it anymore as of last year), the rest is classified information ;P
(#jryh2ba) @prologic@twtxt.net Time to make a new internet. Maybe one that intentionally doesnāt āscaleā and remains slow (on both ends) so itās harder to overload in this manner, harder to abuse for tracking your every move, ā¦ Got any of those 56k modems left?
(Iām half-joking. āMake The Internet Expensive Againā like it was in the 1990ies and some of these problems might go away. Disclaimer: I didnāt have my coffee yet. š )
(#jryh2ba) At this point Iām considering starting a class action lawsuit for all the self-hostess and little-web folks that want to host a small thing or two and sue these fucking inconsiderate fucking corporate giants, hopefully win, and make them respect others on the web.
Fark me š¤¦āāļø I woke up quite late today (after a long night helping/assisting with a Mainframe migration last night fork work) to abusive traffic and my alerts going off. The impact? My pod (twtxt.net) was being hammered by something at a request rate of 30 req/s (there are global rate limits in place, but stillā¦). The culprit? Turned out to be a particular IP 43.134.51.191 and after looking into who own s that IP I discovered it was yet-another-bad-customer-or-whatever from Tencent, so that entire network (ASN) is now blocked from my Edge:
All my newly added test cases failed, that movq thankfully provided in https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/pulls/28#issuecomment-20801 for the draft of the twt hash v2 extension. The first error was easy to see in the diff. The hashes were way too long. Youāve already guessed it, I had cut the hash from the twelfth character towards the end instead of taking the first twelve characters: hash[12:] instead of hash[:12].
After fixing this rookie mistake, the tests still all failed. Hmmm. Did I still cut the wrong twelve characters? :-? I even checked the Go reference implementation in the document itself. But it read basically the same as mine. Strange, what the heck is going on here?
Turns out that my vim replacements to transform the Python code into Go code butchered all the URLs. ;-) The order of operations matters. I first replaced the equals with colons for the subtest struct fields and then wanted to transform the RFC 3339 timestamp strings to time.Date(ā¦) calls. So, I replaced the colons in the time with commas and spaces. Hence, my URLs then also all read https, //example.com/twtxt.txt.
(#kyfenpq) And regarding those broken URLs: I once speculated that these bots operate on an old dataset, because I thought that my redirect rules actually were broken once and produced loops. But a) I cannot reproduce this today, and b) I cannot find anything related to that in my Git history, either. But itās hard to tell, because I switched operating systems and webservers since then ā¦
But the thing is that Iām seeing new URLs constructed in this pattern. So this canāt just be an old crawling dataset.
I am now wondering if those broken URLs are bot bugs as well.
When you request that URL, you get redirected to /git/:
$ curl -sI https://www.uninformativ.de/projects/slinp/zalgo/scksums/bevelbar/
HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 06:13:51 GMT
Server: OpenBSD httpd
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 510
Location: /git/
And on /git/, there are links to my repos. So if a broken client requests https://www.uninformativ.de/projects/slinp/zalgo/scksums/bevelbar/, then sees a bunch of links and simply appends them, youāll end up with an infinite loop.
Is that whatās going on here or are my redirects actually still broken ā¦ ?
Some IP (from Brazil) requests some (non-existing, completely broken) URL from my webserver. But they use the hostname uninformativ.de, so they get redirected to www.uninformativ.de.
In the next step, just a second later, some other IP (from Nepal) issues an HTTP proxy request for the same URL.
Clearly, someone has no idea how HTTP redirects work. And clearly, theyāre running their broken code on some kind of botnet all over the world.
(#wmobsaa) @bender@twtxt.net Thanks. That pulley is just to hang back up the telephone wire (on the ground in 16) for that farm and restaurant in 04 once they finish logging. Hahahahahaaahaaaa, I didnāt see the nails on top of the pole. :-D
(#g3u6i2q) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org@bender@twtxt.net Pfft, they want folks to relocate to Sydney. Fuck that š¤£ Sydney is a bit like San Francisco, Iām not actually sure which is worse. Fuckān expensive as hell, the only palce youād be able to afford to buy or rent is at least ~2hrs out of the city by public transport (i.e: train) and by that time youāve just pissed your life down the toilet, because youād be expected ot work a 9-10hr day + 2-3hrs of travel each way, buy the time you factor in having to wake up super early to get ready to travel in to work, you basically have zero time for anything else, let alone your ufamily,