AI bots absolutely rip through your sites like something rabid.

SemrushBot being the most rabid from my experience. Just will not take “fuck off” as an answer.

That looks pretty much like how I’m doing it, also as an include for each virtual host. The only difference is I don’t even bother with a 403. I just use Nginx’s 444 “response” to immediately close the connection.

Are you doing the IP blocks also in Nginx or lower at the firewall level? Currently I’m doing it at firewall level since many of those will also attempt SSH brute forces (good luck since I only use keys, but still…)

Yeah, I have no idea what the rated wattage for this is. Manual / manufacturer specs are useless. Just says like 740 KWh/yr and “115V/10A”.

I’ve been watching it for the last ~3 hours. Fridge was already cold, but I did open the door for a minute or two so the compressor would kick in.

When the compressor’s running, the draw is about 150W average (swings between 120W and about 160). I can hear it running. Haven’t caught the startup wattage, but the UPS had no issues with it (would have beeped otherwise). I’m not sure if it runs harder or just longer if it needs to cool a warm fridge down (not an expert here lol).

A bit later, the compressor is not running (no hum even with my ear to it). UPS says 400W now, almost on the dot ( +/- 3 watts or so). I’m assuming this is some kind of defrost/de-ice cycle and there’s a heater running or something.

After about 15 minutes, it dropped back down to almost nothing until the compressor kicked on again.

So I guess it really is that energy-efficient. lol. I guess the only remaining question is if there’s anything to watch out for if I want to keep running it on a UPS.

You can probably already order them or at least have them custom made.

I’m guessing we won’t see those much, if at all, because the people who would want to use them typically aren’t jerks who would deface public and private property with stickers.

With novelty-sized breasts.

Seriously. Someone, or probably a team of someones, built that and are proud of it.

I’ve never bothered to weight the difference, but AFAIK, these are sold by number of patties. I did, however, compare the thickness of each in this bonus bag, and all seemed the same/normal. I don’t have a scale to check if the weight matches the packaging, but since this bonus patty made my day, I’d rather not look a gift horse in the mouth lol.

It’s like their entire product line can be named with a script seeded with random buzzwords:

function generateProductName() {
  const baseName = 'Dell'
  const buzzwords = ['Base', 'Plus', 'Premium', 'Pro', 'Max']
  let modelName = ''

  for (let i = 0; i < 1+ Math.ceil(Math.random() * buzzwords.length); i++) {
    modelName +=  ` ${buzzwords[Math.floor(Math.random() * buzzwords.length)]}`
  }
  return baseName + modelName
}

for (let i=0; i<6; i++) {
    console.log(generateProductName())
}

Dell Premium Pro Plus Pro Max
Dell Base
Dell Max Plus
Dell Pro Pro Pro
Dell Plus
Dell Base Plus

Doing lower power for longer has far more impact on even heating

This! It took me forever to suppress my impatience enough to learn that, but it’s been life changing.

True, but even then each state isn’t even a mono-culture. I’m as guilty as any when it comes to stereotyping states (particularly Florida via “Florida Man”) but I’m trying to get out of that mindset myself lol.

Nah. I just chow down on Firefox 3-4 times a week lol

Same. I’ve only had fast food once since 2020, and the experience was like yours: gross and expensive.

Before I went WFH, I ate FF pretty regularly. Mostly because it was, well, fast and offered a variety (there’s at least 8 or 9 places within walking distance of my office).

My job only gives a half hour for lunch. I used to pack a lunch, but that gets tedious after a while and takes extra time out of my morning to prepare. Then if I want to heat it up, there’s always a line to use the microwaves or to get to the refrigerator in the break room. By the time my packed lunch is prepared, I’ve got just enough time to wolf it down and head back to my desk.

Going out for FF at least let me take a walk, get some fresh air, and gave me a variety over the handful of things (or leftovers) I would pack from home.

If I ever have to RTO, that’s the aspect I’d be most upset about.

The US is not a mono-culture and most of us (unfortunately not all of them voted) are against most of the things we as a country are ridiculed over.

I swear, replace “US” or “Americans” in some of the stuff Europeans are posting/commenting with any other country, and those would sound xenophobic AF. But somehow, because 'Murica, it gets a pass.

Someone posted a ASL SLAM poetry video yesterday, and it might give some hints. This isn’t an authoritative answer, just something off-the-cuff.

• Video: https://youtu.be/dmsqXwnqIw4
• Post: https://lemmy.zip/post/29267045

When ASL is translated into English for poetry, 95% of the time it’s lost in translation. That’s why I ask the interpreters not to translate the poems. You have rhyme in the English poetry and patterns of verbal repetition. ASL is more about the movement, a visual rhyme versus an auditory rhyme.

Granted, that’s referring to ASL-native poetry versus English poetry translated to ASL. But, from that, it would seem that no, rhymes don’t make a lot of sense in the same way they do for spoken poetry assuming the person has no auditory reference for the sound of words.

Steve Buscemi was a firefighter in NYC and assisted on 9/11.

That still happens to me.

I’ve had dreams where I did a full day at the office: small talk with coworkers, annoying problems, meetings, the works. Alarm goes off, I wake up as if I hadn’t slept, and it’s time for real work. That whole day feels like a double shift.

I can’t see those, specifically, but a similar pattern of mass community bans after even remotely criticizing an authoritarian regime is completely on brand for Dessalines.

I don’t have record of the comment that triggered these, but when it’s something like civility, it’s usually just a comment removal and maybe a single community ban.

I’m not sure if there’s a solution here, but I’d like to urge people to avoid lemmy.ml hosted communities in favor of communities on more reasonable instances.

Did that months ago; defederated completely when they turned into Lemmygrad-lite. At first I missed some more active FOSS communities, but since then, others on different instances have become more active. programming.dev has a lot of communities that overlap with some of the bigger FOSS ones on .ml so maybe check out what they’ve got.

If there’s a community that only exists there, be the change you want to see: create it somewhere else, nurture it, and give it time to grow. You’re not the only one making this complaint about .ml, and you probably won’t be the last.

Related: I genuinely feel that ml being the official or at least de-facto flagship instance is turning people away.

Edit: Oh yeah. Didn’t recognize your username at first, but I was looking at the modlog the other day from my LW account, and saw a bunch of individual community bans from Dessalines and wondered what was up. Figured it was something exactly like this, and it was. Thanks for sharing.