Laravel.

I have a tiny php library for a somewhat popular framework. It was made so a company could protect a very old database and certain tables. It started as a one off 9 years ago. It was one php file of less than 50 lines.

As of this month it has been downloaded 2 million times. I still can’t believe its been used this much. And I’m the only maintainer. If I wanted to I could ruin a lot of peoples days. But I won’t.

In a couple of decades, we are going to have large swaths of code that will outlive its creators being used on essential infrastructure.

Woops yes!

Nice! Thats another way to do it. 😀

I know others use Arabis(?) I think thats what it called. The anime girl one that does a calc on top. Ive never had good luck with it. I think bot are using something to get around and it messes with my requests. Might also be my own fiddling.

I have something similar with fail2ban + hidden buttons. If the requester goes and clicks on the hidden buttons on the main site, it gets into a rabbit hole. After 3 requests, it gets banned for a bit. Usually stops the worst offenders. OpenAI and some of the scrapers are the worst.

Google/bing, I do actually see them hit robots.txt then jump off, which is what they should be going.

They have an upper limit. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/

A couple of my products went WAAAY above that and you essentially have to get a quick standard plan. If you have this problem, congrats, you are probably doing something really well or really bad!

They are not as bad as say AWS / Azures offerings when it comes to billing. Arguably, theres a reason they are still around when there are other tools that do similar things. Used to be, it was the most solid part of the infa. Nowadays…its for some reason going down quite often. And not just the world-wide issues taht everyone else is seeing. We have a product that CANNOT go down and cloudflare has been responsible for a couple of big issues, which is really unfortunate. Its still the best “work” service for what they do, but I dont have any of my personal infa connected.

Port master is a Fantastic project!!!

All the time. There’s a lot of cves in old premade docker containers.

This is the second creator that has talked about HN recently. Its strange!

good.

Getting repairable tech will be even more important now than ever. Making your current devices last is important, but even more important in a couple of years (in my opinion).

I just dont see the price going down.

My theory is its easier to produce a product for a small number of big investors in AI than millions of consumers looking to build hobby computers. Plus the AI companies are flush with cash, MUCH more than the average consumer. So they are getting the cash now and worrying about the fallout later, just like everyone else.

So far we are seeing significant price increases/low availability in:

• RAM
• SSDs/hard drives
• some microcontrollers
• phones
• and now GPUs
  I think we are nearing a bit of a technological winter for the consumer market.

Its this the truth. Although the one off scripts are getting better/easier as time goes on.

Very fun game

Its been a long time since ive seen Guile. Interesting. I never knew! Ill have to give it a shot in docker or something just to try it out.

Oh neat. What is guix? What makes it different than the other pkg managers out there?

No idea.

We recently had to get rid of a vendor at work because the private company was bought out by a foreign power. Can’t say more than that. Kinda sucks as now we have to replace some of the infa.

Nice! I have a couple too. There’s a community if your interested:

!meshtastic@mander.xyz