@prologic@twtxt.net if done right, zs derivatives can even generate twtxt feeds alongside RSS for blogs as well

@prologic@twtxt.net bookmarked (apparently I can do that)

@prologic@twtxt.net incidentally I’ve found modSecurity

@prologic@twtxt.net running Mastodon? I’d pick anything else

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m down for it

@movq@www.uninformativ.de sorry dude I think we’re getting our language confused. I think I actually meant private Internet connections.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I meant ISPs. Hm, okay. 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Maybe so. But running Mastodon or GotoSocial is actually not as easy as you’d think 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net it would have been so much easy to run your own. I guess we all like to suffer every once and then, and this time is your turn. 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de If by that you mean ISP(s)? No. so far most are hosting providers by the looks? 🧐

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ahh that would be awesome!!! I’d also somehow need read access to logs so i can figure shit out on my own 🧐

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Haha! 😂 Welcome back 🙌

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Tell me more? How does this work?

@prologic@twtxt.net I’d say give crowdsec a try but I know for sure you prefer your own WAF … 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net Let me know if you still need an account for testing. My tin-can bandwidth is slow AF but usable if you don’t mind the speed.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I personally use twtAgent over here on Thunix (Also managed by deepend I believe) and then from time to time run wk -F ' ' '/\.txt/ {print $NF" "$(NF-1)}' $HOME/public_html/twtAgent.log | sed -e 's/\((\|)\|+\|;\|@\)//g' | sed '/^$/d'| sort -u to check for who’s pulling this feed (Too lazy to alias it :‘] ) .

Leaving this here just in case it might help a fellow Townie, Cheers!

@zvava@twtxt.net I am waiting for that v1, so that I can start using it. 🙏🏻

@prologic@twtxt.net AI is slot machines for coders:

• “Before starting tasks, developers forecast that allowing AI will reduce completion time by 24%. After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%–AI tooling slowed developers down.” https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
  
• “Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code”: https://venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overflow-data-reveals-the-hidden-productivity-tax-of-almost-right-ai-code
  

The same intermittent reward operant conditioning that gets people addicted to gambling and thinking that if they follow certain rituals they’ll win “next time” drives people’s beliefs that AI tools are making them more productive when they’re making them less productive. I’m going to guess that a side effect of this is that people think they’re typing less when in the longer term they’re typing the same amount or more when you factor in the productivity loss (as far as I’ve read the studies don’t measure this so I’m only guessing).

People are also being rapidly de-skilled by this technology: the more they use it, the more their actual skills atrophy. “Continuous exposure to AI might reduce the ADR (adesoma detection rate) of standard non-AI assisted colonoscopy, suggesting a negative effect on endoscopist behaviour.” (science speak for saying that radiologists get worse at seeing tumors in scans once they’ve used AI): https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract

Nobody who cares about the future should be using this stuff for anything.

@iolfree@tilde.club @movq@www.uninformativ.de So true! Good read, thanks for recommending. :-)

@iolfree@tilde.club They’re not wrong, are they? 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I just skip all those merchants who only accept PayPal or credit card.

@prologic@twtxt.net Do these IPs belong to hosting providers or to providers of private internet connections? The latter is what I’m seeing on my server …

@prologic@twtxt.net We have a bit of a vendor lock-in here in Germany: PayPal is sometimes the only non-shady option to pay for something. ☹️

@prologic@twtxt.net I realized, was too sleepy to notice then… At least I got “Site Reliability” right

@prologic@twtxt.net LiberaPay?

@prologic@twtxt.net as per #kzirx3a I managed to avoid having to use it (there’s also a thing or two wrong about its creator as well, which is more on a personal level than technical here)

@bender@twtxt.net Just a donations thiny I knew about from years ago that I never setup properly. Now an acceptable form of donation on my prologic.dev site 👌 (if anyone ever does that is!)

@prologic@twtxt.net what’s that?

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Haha 🤣 Nice typo there!

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe I’m mostly against it because it forces Javascript™ on the client(s) at a blanket level. Doing “Proof-of-Work” explicitly IMO is fine™, but not at an Ingress/Edge level IMO – Which is why I haven’t adopted it myself.

@prologic@twtxt.net the life of a lead SRA

@yarn_police@twtxt.net good thing we got law and order around here. And I mean, literally! 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net 7/7 burglars like that.

@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 müssen ja dann auch gemeinnützige Vereine oder etwas Vergleichbares sein, oder? :-?

Wenn ich in der Petition schon wieder KI les, wird mir gleich anders.

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh shit, that’s not healthy! :-(

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net That’s fine with me. It could be even the 1st January 2026, as simple as the change really is.

But it would be also alright to just stick with July, so that I don’t have to update the tests. :-P

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Dang it. :-(

@prologic@twtxt.net oh man, I envy you. I want an Asian vacation (Japan 😍) so badly!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net I’ll also start spamming from my upcoming Vietnam holiday (flying out this Friday) for a couple of soliday weeks 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Seems fine to me! Plenty of time to get our shit™ in order! 🙌

@bender@twtxt.net Once Advent of Code starts, I’ll start spamming, don’t worry. 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de looks good to me! 🎉

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Probably wouldn’t 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 …

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org ugh, well, there goes my thought.

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Welcome back! 🤟 You have been missed! 😅

@shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Welcome back 🤟

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Fail2ban to the rescue? :-?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de In my current project I’m typically far away from this pile of shit. Let’s see how the project will be in this regard.

@bender@twtxt.net Unfortunately, this also breaks the browser search.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m raising my hand for tt.