Distro watch rankings are just which page gets the most hits. Get a bunch of different IPs to load LemmyLinux and it'll be number one (and then actual people will click on it to see what it is and why it's number one).
Deebster
joined 2 years ago
In other news, you have a little cake on Voyager - you've been on Lemmy for one year today.
How can I test if my phone uses hardware decoding for AV1?
Perhaps everything after the low hanging fruit feels too politically painful.
Thinking there must be another way, I switched to Haproxy.
Hang on, weren't you on Haproxy already? Or do you mean you switched your attention to Haproxy? (If not, what were you in before?)
As others have said, blocking incoming stuff as high up as possible is definitely the right way, and Cloudflare is the right place for you. It's interesting that this bot wasn't caught by Cloudflare, I wonder who runs it.
I feel a company that big would write a more competent bot, but I also wouldn't be too astonished.
I was kinda hoping for another story about some clever compression bomb or similar to slow up the bot - after all, if it's hammering this little site it's surely doing the same to others, even if they haven't noticed yet. After the robots.txt was ignored I was sure, but I guess this mature, restrained response is probably the correct one *discontentedly kicks can down sepia street*
If I hadn't had found others saying it was the pine nuts then I'd be worried it was a brain tumour or something.
It was reported it could last weeks or months, so I was happy enough with only five days.
I had this! It happened in maybe 2010 and there wasn't much information available online, but enough for me to figure that it was the pine nuts. It lasted for about five days and never happened again.
I went with Fedora on my VPS because I was also planning to use rootless Podman. Quadlets and running everything through systemd with SELinux enabled is working pretty well for me.
This is a great story, no downsides apart from maybe that the parrotfish have to find something else to eat.
As far as I know I made it up, but I stand ready to be surprised!