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.

#MastoHelp Si tu es à la recherche d’un administrateur système avec 4 années d’expérience ou d’un technicien informatique N1/N2 de proximité, je suis actuellement à la recherche d’un emploi dans la métropole de #Nantes.

Ma disponibilité est immédiate et je serais ravi d’échanger avec vous !

Le retoot fait disparaitre le foutu voyant moteur ❤️

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/117475527442943924

Was just looking for a way to MITM my TV YouTube app to block shorts. Thanks

looks so silly when people post verbatim llm prompt text but don't tell you exactly what model they used (or *cough* what original data went into the model)

@jalefkowit @aeva shiiiiiiiiiiii

@waldi AIUI, the HSM business is still in their own hands, and the Awful Interception part was sold:
https://utimaco.com/news/press-releases/invision-and-pinova-acquire-utimacos-lawful-interception-business

@molly0xfff It would have been my fifth guess in base 2.

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👉 https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8616883

It's a new day, and seeds have been changed! Todays lucky animals are: Hare Hare Ferret Chamois Goldfish

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

http://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/the-internet-goes-on-high-alert-after-discovery-of-8-compromised-tls-certs/

#eMudhra