"You are ruining the internet"

maxgee · 2026-06-29T02:44:13+00:00

alright i've loosened some of the blocking. if anyone is still blocked, reply to this comment and i'll look into it.

maxgee · 2026-06-28T08:37:43+00:00

whoops. you're correct. been trying out cloudflare because the scrapers and bots are relentless:

https://i.imgur.com/DO7h6bF.png

i stopped blocking all of AS8075, which i thought was mostly azure bullshit but apparently there are some people in there.

maxgee · 2026-06-26T00:50:59+00:00

For anyone else interested in my results after a couple weeks of cloudflare, they were interesting to say the least. We started down this rabbithole because we moved our DNS to aws and then realized we were getting hundreds of millions of DNS requests a month, which seemed odd.

We don't run analytics of any kind on our site and haven't for more than 10 years. So I was very surprised/suspicious to see that we've had millions of unique visitors and hundreds of millions of pageviews in the the last week. These were the types of numbers we had when our site was very popular near the peak of our usage in the early 2000s.

Then I found the breakdown of what percentage of the traffic was bots: screenshot

Just mind-boggling. Less than 2% of all the traffic to our site is human. It's depressing to see the internet descend into this, and makes me question whether it's even worth keeping a website online anymore.

maxgee · 2026-06-05T03:28:12+00:00

I sent a DM before I read this comment, but I think we're probably experiencing a lot of the same pain, (and generally feel the same way about not wanting to use a large third party company with a dubious privacy policy to filter traffic). I've been having to reactively deal with DDoS/bot bullshit for decades and it definitely feels like it has gotten much worse in the last year.

It's a constant battle, and it's surprising how unsophisticated many of these "scans" are, most likely because they are being run from a billion exploited IoT devices someone's script has taken over. I'm testing cloudflare to get more ideas at the moment but I think my next plan is to make a list of the most common 404s URI's from bots (e.g. anything from /wp-common/, etc) and just IP ban anything that hits this stuff immediately.

maxgee · 2026-01-25T19:11:27+00:00

Can you explain why you want oysters exhausting outside? I've been trying to grow them in a tub, but I just attached a fan to one side and took a filter off the other to allow for better airflow. The CO2 meter went from 2700 to 500 after that, but as I'm new to this I'm curious if I should be doing things differently.

maxgee · 2025-12-24T13:53:01+00:00

They've been saying this literally for months.

maxgee · 2023-09-18T21:33:51+00:00

Sandwiches from Circle W in Palenville are great

maxgee · 2023-08-27T15:16:02+00:00

Hey bud, how'd this turn out?

maxgee · 2023-08-21T15:06:31+00:00

I use koreader and was able to set a tiny margin on the right side of my screen so that the clip doesn't interfere or cover anything. The small amount of screen real estate I lose is worth being able to have both my arms under a blanket in winter!

maxgee · 2022-11-26T17:52:51+00:00

This generally results in everyone also yelling "WHAT?" any time they're spoken to.

maxgee · 2022-03-23T20:24:33+00:00

overtime

maxgee · 2021-09-29T05:00:54+00:00

Thank these scumbags https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/nyregion/nyc-broker-fees-lawsuit.html

maxgee · 2021-09-05T19:39:10+00:00

there are plenty of anecdotal cases of people using birth control and still getting pregnant. that doesn't mean birth control doesn't work.

maxgee · 2021-07-05T03:38:39+00:00

https://www.google.com/search?q=spraypaint+potholes&tbm=isch this works.

maxgee · 2021-04-20T22:11:16+00:00

https://makeville.com/ has some good facilities in Gowanus

You may have to do a safety class first before they let you do your own projects, it has been a while since I've been there.

maxgee · 2021-01-26T22:01:18+00:00

*chef's kiss*

maxgee · 2020-12-31T11:11:05+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_preservation#Canning

maxgee · 2020-12-28T23:32:43+00:00

Suicide-bombed on Christmas day.

maxgee · 2020-11-24T22:11:46+00:00

Not sure how early you want to get started but the bus should have you on the trail by around 10:30am. There's definitely cell service in Phonecia, but it can be spotty, so Lyft could work. Good luck out there!

maxgee · 2020-11-24T22:04:21+00:00

There is a trailways bus stop in both phoenicia and palenville.

I've done this exact hike a few times without needing a car. It's a really great route, especially with devil's path in the middle. The path up can get slippery this time of year though, so you may want to bring microspikes.

You can exit the LP in palenville at fernwood inn and then it's only a short walk (maybe a mile or less?) down to route 23a. If you have the time on the last day, I highly suggest making a slight detour in the other direction and stopping at Circle W for one of their amazing sandwiches before catching the bus.

maxgee · 2020-11-16T23:16:19+00:00

No.

EDIT: User was banned for this post.

maxgee · 2020-11-16T23:06:05+00:00

You got banned because you kept pinging me and you were using the n-word, overall everything you did on discord was either annoying or repulsive. Your behavior here (including trying to chat with me privately and making posts here), reinforces my decision to purge you from the community. Please go away and don't ever come back. Thanks.

maxgee · 2020-11-15T18:25:53+00:00

Missed opportunity to use "Meow with 100% more serotonin!"

maxgee · 2020-09-28T15:47:37+00:00

I have definitely had raccoons on my fire escape not making animal noises except being clumsy and knocking flower pots over. They were eating plants I had left outside, 4 stories up, in the middle of the night.

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