What a week, huh? 😅
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What a nerd. 😍🎻
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q62HtrVlC8c
I just love linear() 😍 #CSS #animation
Wrote about it here, in case you’re interested:
More background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-eeJP0J7c
@webrocker Badumms! 😁👏
12 days of Soundtoys.
6 free plug-ins.
just setting up my srvr
“Why don’t you put your site behind Cloudflare to deal with those LLM bots?”
Okay, they’re back – that was quick this time… 😁
If you’re into #audio #plugins: Universal Audio is giving away a free plugin right now – options include many classics like the LA-2A, 1176, Pultec EQ, Galaxy Tape Echo, the (great-sounding!) PolyMAX Synth, and more. 🎛️✨
https://www.uaudio.com/products/pick-one-free-plug-in
My son was just trying to find the right tempo for a song he’s playing on the violin. So I started to clap in time.
I’m his dadronome.
It feels really wrong – and also a bit naive and crude – that I am now forced to block individual IPs and even countries like CN, RU, or UA (💙💛) to mitigate the current LLM bot “DDoS attack” on my site. This shouldn't be something I have to do manually in my .htaccess IMHO—that’s firewall territory.
In my current shared web hosting setup, I am not “owning” my web enough to be able to change server settings, access more detailed monitoring tools, or try tools like Anubis (https://anubis.techaro.lol/). So I’ll probably tackle a move of my website to a managed server very soon. 😅
Alright – my site seems to be working again for now. After I added a few filter rules to my .htaccess that block a few countries with high bot and spam traffic (like CN, RU, BY, KP, IR) as well as quite a few IPs of LLM bots and crawlers, the all-inkl.com support team removed their filter again! So I'm happy to report that my site should be accessible from countries like Canada, the Netherlands, Czechia, and Costa Rica again. 😊
Somehow, I'm still seeing an error for Coventry, UK when checking with https://check-host.net/. But I’m writing this from a London (VPN) IP address and just opened my site, holding a teacup. So I hope my friends in the UK can access the site again as well? Or is the site returning “🫖”? 🧐
Anyway, glad everything seems to be working for now. Although it feels weird to have to mitigate and manage this stuff myself in the .htaccess…
Good night, everyone! And thanks for all the kind replies and the suggestions! 🤗💚
@hdv is right: it’s the LMM bots that are bombarding my site with traffic. I mean, look at November 19th – what a day! 🤯 (look at the number of lines on the left)
That’s great news! I can just write an invoice to Sam and friends. ☺️ My son suggested “how about one cent per LLM bot request”…
Their support team replied:
“Your website matthiasott.com is being accessed continuously and massively.”
That’s … great!! 🎉🥳
“It is likely a DDoS attack. We have installed a filter that only allows access from certain countries to protect the server from overload.”
That’s … not so great. 🤔😂
Because people are asking: my current provider is all-inkl.com – I’ve been a customer for about 17 years and it has always worked well in general, although their control panel never got an update in all those years… 😅
But this is now the second time I’m having issues and their support is somewhat resistant to take me seriously – the first one was that, out of nowhere, KeyCDN stopped working. I’m still convinced it was a server / firewall issue back then, too. 😁
Sorry to everyone having trouble connecting to my little website and RSS feed right now! It looks like my web hosting provider is (once again) having a hard time getting their server/load balancer configuration right. I wrote them again, hope the issue will be resolved soon. Thanks for your patience! 💚🙏
After long-winded discussions in which I had to prove to them – using nghttp via VPN – that I am not “in one boat with malicious actors using VPN and TOR” but that instead their server immediately closes the connection after the SSL handshake, they had already reset the config for my domain recently. It worked well for a few days.
But now, it seems to be offline again for whole regions/countries like Canada, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Turkey, and many more. 😕
So I’m thinking of moving my site to another provider. It might be time for my own VPS/managed server anyway…
Any suggestions (🇩🇪/🇪🇺)?
… and after one month, we now have a rotten zombie pumpkin in our garden. 🎃🧟♂️😂
❄️ It’s freezing cold outside here in Germany, and this is an interesting explainer of why that is: a warming event in the polar region is leading to an early collapse of the polar vortex, so Europe and North America are flooded with cold air, while the North Pole is unusually warm. #weather #climate https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/stratospheric-warming-watch-polar-vortex-collapse-cold-snow-impacts-coming-for-united-states-canada-europe-fa/
“You tried to get me fired in September – it didn’t work, Mr. President! […] How about this: I’ll go when you, okay? Let’s ride off into the sunset like Butch Cassidy and the sun-tanned kid. And until then, if I may borrow a phrase from you … quiet, piggy!“
Jimmy Kimmel is invincible now🔥😂👏
@svgeesus Congrats!! 🎉 🏴 Will be fun to watch the Tartan Army take over the US next year. 😁
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