@astropelican oops, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQhch8f_tO0 is now looping in my mind

I shared a link from NPR Tiny Desk but there was no image preview or video embed. After investigating this I learned that when you do that, each instance picks up the link and individually retrieves the link preview nearly simultaneously. For gargantuan sites like YT or Reddit, this is a trivial amount of traffic and not a problem, but for smaller sites like NPR this results in a sort of botnet DDOS attack on the site’s servers. More here. Another example here . For that reason, NPR has blocked Fediverse servers like Mastodon.

I have experienced this on my personal server as well (DDOS), but at the time didn’t know why, exactly.

This isn’t the end of the world, but certainly is not great and hurts engagement with the content. Is there a solution for this? Perhaps using some sort of webtorrent service like PeerTube where they just fetch the information from another fediverse server instead of the source server? Maybe fetching embeds client-side? At least that would stagger the requests.

@forestine @weirdofhermiston
We have 4.
("Pity me." -- Queen)

opendesktop.org allows themes created by "ai" apparently?

every recent icon theme i took a peak at is just claude slop :(

@tante dunno if you'll find his name on the commits, but this design is so scott and he's claiming the credit, so

The 'I worked a few decades in tech' to #Fediverse pipeline ...

The initials for User Interface -- UI -- when spoken as a word is pronounced 'Yewie'

which is also the colloquial name for a U turn.

#Rules

#OtD 20 Oct 1926 US socialist and labour leader Eugene V. Debs died. He helped found both the American Railway Union and the Industrial Workers of the World union, and was jailed in 1919 for his opposition to World War I. Learn more about the @iww: workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww

it's so cool when two people who I know to not be shitheads talk to each other

@amsomniac

@xy and I updated a handful of SIPB's servers, including this Mastodon

see the problem with socialized healthcare is u have to wait for months to see a specialist. not like here in the US with privatized healthcare where u have to wait for months to see a specialist

@Samsai Hey I didn't know about rust extension. Thanks for the tip

@woozle probably not useful for a whole web browser, which is practically guaranteed to be loading page elements in parallel, but for apps that need to occasionally download a single file, it could work

@jalefkowit

Yous before GPUs!

@Capheind That’s exactly what it is!

Like, bro, this ain’t legally binding!

Shut up!

LOL!