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Reddit might be forced to hand out IPs of users frequenting piracy subreddits: how does programming.dev compare? (programming.dev)
submitted 10 months ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
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Do you keep access logs? How long do you keep them?

I imagine that if you ever got a request, you'd understandably just give in and hand out the data. Have you thought of a canary?

Thanks for all your work!

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[โ€“] snowe@programming.dev 78 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I'm not in the business of collecting user data and don't really want to be. In regards to logs, we restart our containers every 6 hours and the logs are wiped at that time, so the furthest back logs I can actually find in our system are from an hour ago.

And nah, I wouldn't give in. There's no real reason to request that information, as accessing a url means absolutely nothing. I did so just now to verify things and the same could be argued by any real user (oh, I clicked on the link and didn't know what it was going to). I very much doubt the past 6 hours of logs would be useful anyway, as by the time I got the request the logs wouldn't matter anymore.

But, I'm still going to see if I can turn off logging for requests. I do not think we need them at all, and if we do, we can simply turn it on for a few minutes to get the info we need.

[โ€“] onlinepersona@programming.dev 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the clear answer and thank you for maintaining this instance ๐Ÿ’–

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[โ€“] snowe@programming.dev 12 points 10 months ago

Thank you for the good post. And at this point, most of the work is being done by Ategon and the other admins. I am mostly here for infrastructure support and general direction of the instance.

[โ€“] aport@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

Based Lemmy admin

[โ€“] Die4Ever@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

as accessing a url means absolutely nothing.

Hmmm yes I see Google's search indexer has accessed this URL, they should get sued!