@prologic@twtxt.net I have returned

@movq@www.uninformativ.de pinging @zvava@twtxt.net, on your behalf. And @falsifian@www.falsifian.org.

Which actively maintained Yarn/twtxt clients are there at the moment? Client authors raise your hands! 🙋

This is what this looked like visually 😳

@prologic@twtxt.net Time to make a new internet. Maybe one that intentionally doesn’t “scale” and remains slow (on both ends) so it’s harder to overload in this manner, harder to abuse for tracking your every move, … Got any of those 56k modems left?

(I’m half-joking. “Make The Internet Expensive Again” like it was in the 1990ies and some of these problems might go away. Disclaimer: I didn’t have my coffee yet. 😅)

Fark me 🤦‍♂️ 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 still…). 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:

+# Who: Tentcent
+# Why: Bad Bots
+132203

Total damage?

$ caddy-log-formatter twtxt.net.log | cut -f 1 -d  ' ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n -k 1 | head -n 5
  61371 43.134.51.191
    402 159.196.9.199
    121 45.77.238.240
      8 106.200.1.116
      6 104.250.53.138

61k reqs over an hour or so (before I noticed), bunch of CPU time burned, and useless waste of my fucking time.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s what tests are for. To fix them. :-D

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oops. 😅 But yay, it’s working. 🥳

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. You’ve 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(…) 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.

But that was it. All test green. \o/

@thecanine@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Unfortunately, yes.

@thecanine@twtxt.net That image is correct.

@xuu@txt.sour.is when it is extremely important to be the very best at everything, nothing can be left behind. Not even a piss drinking contest!

@bender@twtxt.net thank you! <3

@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 didn’t see the nails on top of the pole. :-D

Yup, these ice crystals are just lovely. :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net Who’s got a life besides work, huh? Yeah, no, thanks, mate! Scratch that.

@bender@twtxt.net Don’t even think that was on the cards I’m afraid 😳 But yes I’ve said that in a message to the recruiter.

@prologic@twtxt.net counter that you would only work remote.

@kiwu@twtxt.net I’m glad you’re liking the updates haha 😆

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @bender@twtxt.net Pfft, they want folks to relocate to Sydney. Fuck that 🤣 Sydney is a bit like San Francisco, I’m not actually sure which is worse. Fuck’n expensive as hell, the only palce you’d 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 you’ve just pissed your life down the toilet, because you’d 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,

Fuck that.

Hello @therealprologic@bridge.twtxt.net 👋

@kiwu@twtxt.net there, there. Hoping it gets better or… less rough!

@prologic@twtxt.net yes, loving all the updates!

@thecanine@twtxt.net Cool! Let’s hope they truly keep their word.

@prologic@twtxt.net I couldn’t have phrased it any better than @bender@twtxt.net. :-)

Twice or three times the money as before sounds a bit suspicious to me. Of course, I could be wrong, but I always was under the impression, that your last jobs weren’t all that badly salaried. If the new offer is really paid this highly, it might be a shit job. For me, money isn’t everything, I’d rather opt for a lower income where the job is fun than hating to go to work every day. But if the new job ticks all boxes, go for it. :-)

Also: Consult your pillow, don’t rush it.

@bender@twtxt.net Haha 🤣 Spoken like someone that’s done this before 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net you take a look at it, see if it is a good fit, ask the headhunter more details about it, and the company they represent for this hire, bring the results clearly, simply stated, but without missing any information to your CFO (AKA wife), and then arrive at a decision as a family.

Don’t let the temptation of more compensation be the driving factor.

@thecanine@twtxt.net Not bad. 🥳 Fingers crossed that they actually do it. 🤞

@arne@uplegger.eu @lukas@lukasthiel.de In fact, Yarn.social’s yarnd client implementation actually uses (or did, still kinda does today) PicoCSS 🤟 It was/is a good CSS library! 👍

@thecanine@twtxt.net Comgrats! 🙌

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, all eggs in one basket has never been a sensible approach. Sadly, even without that, this outage is affecting many due to the interconnected nature of services these days.

@prologic@twtxt.net Mastocoooooooon!

@kiwu@twtxt.net Oh! you like? 👍 Haha 😆

the new logo is cute

Hey @ocdtrekkie@bridge.twtxt.net 👋

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org LOL 😂

@bender@twtxt.net LOL 😂

@bender@twtxt.net Glad you like them! :-) Those colorful roof shingles are absolutely stunning. The golden building has quite a few folds in the facade skin, from the other sides a bit more. Check out this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Rems_in_Schw%C3%A4bisch_Gm%C3%BCnd.jpg Luckily, there weren’t this many people around today. :-)

Don’t think this is the norm, though, most stuff here is also much more modern. There are not a whole lot of historic buildings left. And if there are, they’re not necessarily kept in good shape. But some are. So, don’t be fooled by my biased preselection of typically photographing the nicer ones.

The people photos are not for the internet. ;-) But I get your point, the reason why I ended up in that town is irrelevant and misleading, I should have introduced it differently. :-D

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org wow, 31 is truly a telling! Interesting facade on that building on 10! And that roof on 51, oh my! The golden Jesus and tower on 7 are something else too.

I miss Europe like hell, mate! A lot of things around here are younger than me. I don’t feel history, I am history. 😅

On “family day”, I was expecting to see more pictures with people in it. All lovely, nevertheless. Thanks, as always, for the mini-vacation! 🙈

@bender@twtxt.net I knew it was supposed to be a lowercase “t”, but it reminded me of a tiny umbrella.

@prologic@twtxt.net honestly, I though it was a nail at first. Like this, but bent. LOL.

@bender@twtxt.net The “t” 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net this one? https://twtxt.dev/assets/img/twtxt-logo.svg Other than being “circlish” I don’t see any relationship. 😅

@quark@ferengi.one It’s very nice mate 😅 I didn’t know you were this good at CSS 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net That’s actually kind of what I was going for, just with a stylized “t” and some blue/purple/red shades 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net I prefer something like the logo on https://twtxt.dev, for example, instead. But hey, it is your pod, have fun!

@prologic@twtxt.net is it Hugo driven, yes. The Frankenstein’s monster CSS is mostly all mine, as evidenced by its shoddiness. 😅

What I wanna know at this point @bender@twtxt.net is this; What is this “Notes” thing. Is it just a uugo static site you maintain or something else? 🤔 Did you write all the CSS yourself? 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @bender@twtxt.net that’s also what Yarn.social’s logo is, and just happens to be the yarnd default. Hmmm figured times for a change? 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That is brilliant! 🤣