2026-09-18T07:29:35Z https://yabu.me Aaron https://yabu.me/npub1myn2jppmuexzn4zgkn8agw9udz8jfp2aef4yat8gflxkxwpc43zs53vmc3 https://chirp.zadzmo.org/fileserver/01VZA06AXEG26001S97HY39161/attachment/original/01JEKTG1JAQPG9BVAYA3V0A189.png https://chirp.zadzmo.org/fileserver/01VZA06AXEG26001S97HY39161/attachment/original/01JEKTG1JAQPG9BVAYA3V0A189.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyuwfqzfvkpttccu5nra0lsy60xl3423l4n8n8kcmdz3r7dsqn0aczyrvjd2gy80nyc2w5fz6vl4pch35g7fy9th9x5n4vap8u6cec8zky22sx586 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxjlqkl9meh7d9afqv928gjwfxv3d9uf8x0p4w5ra4vnd5qql0p3gnspptp'>nevent1q…pptp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you have a solution that can help people keep their sites online, right now, go for it. If your solution works it should spread rapidly. 2026-08-18T19:03:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsttv98kv9fksusfkzsqa7w4puzalytujvj0zwapwkew5u5lwzrkrqzyrvjd2gy80nyc2w5fz6vl4pch35g7fy9th9x5n4vap8u6cec8zky2eyanfc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgp5a2n5kcp5ljvc807l5mtjz5dpfyue7e8zmrtmr7u89yeqcmrdcperf3z'>nevent1q…rf3z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Telling a professional photographer trying to sell their craft to the general public to &#34;use Bittorrent&#34; to solve the problems of an aggressive scraper isn&#39;t going to work.<br/><br/>For their target audience - non-technical people who want to buy art and/or see examples of services for hire - this would be equal to the photographer saying &#34;I&#39;m not on the internet.&#34;<br/><br/>It&#39;s bad enough not being on Facebook or Instagram. 2026-08-18T18:54:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsre2647z3plklye6pxf4smjt855xuzlw9pqpdsz48nqxlrlguxhygzyrvjd2gy80nyc2w5fz6vl4pch35g7fy9th9x5n4vap8u6cec8zky2hqnvs3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstpczmqk2uclp49w0nwhamumd3fdm3qpd2pv029lz77znst2z89qgr62wfd'>nevent1q…2wfd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I know of photographers displaying their work who were being crushed, financially, by bandwidth overages. Most retreated behind Cloudflare, which is an entirely different discussion of internet scale problems.<br/><br/>Yes, Wordpress isn&#39;t great, but it didn&#39;t cause this problem. Site operators choosing Wordpress, or anything else, didn&#39;t cause this problem. Something with a huge budget and access to vast internet resources is generating this traffic, and causing significant harm to others - and in a way that&#39;s all but impossible to block.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1uu4m3ajwh8ttyvfu52du0nxvxel93q4x2d9w8nh3f60twnkewyksjpuaaf" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing:</span> (<span class="italic">npub1uu4…uaaf</span>)</a></span> 2026-08-18T14:14:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw9frnvc7agk7w7mu7u69ytt8vunegxrnvwh22cqcezeej9k9t03gzyrvjd2gy80nyc2w5fz6vl4pch35g7fy9th9x5n4vap8u6cec8zky2nlak3h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw7q78atqe6m45s5n92r9kgq7yvjzv5qg3yre29sylql9c0vszs5g5qv8ut'>nevent1q…v8ut</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>A lot of sites are resorting to these means because they are being crushed by whatever is causing this traffic. Their alternative to not using these methods is to go offline, possibly permanently.<br/><br/>I&#39;m not convinced it&#39;s scraping for data anymore. Requesting the same URI thousands of times every hour doesn&#39;t make sense, but that&#39;s exactly what is happening. Some extremely well funded attacker is literally DDoS&#39;ing large portions of the internet.<br/><br/>I don&#39;t have an answer, especially not one that takes the very real accessibility concerns you have mentioned into account. It literally keeps me awake at night. 2026-08-18T05:24:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq7rj43lrg0p9ee42k6g6deku3t6dk33p3r7vrdgs2ahtkyte0xkszyrvjd2gy80nyc2w5fz6vl4pch35g7fy9th9x5n4vap8u6cec8zky23gk8xa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs04ynzv67zk5a760y80nr53m5z0ucek77xy6t00k33aqqrlqatvcq6kpnu2'>nevent1q…pnu2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I baffled by how you define &#34;success&#34; in this context - for all of the flaws the US has, those countries sound like significantly worse places to live. Mostly authoritarian regimes with terrible human rights records and/or greatly degraded standards of living.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1xw72jymypjdstdz82h6srlmtdv9u5xg70nn3xaazlkel8dsc7ljqger9m5" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)</span> (<span class="italic">npub1xw7…r9m5</span>)</a></span> 2026-08-05T05:42:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgs47cshq243rcm8mqlj7el7cs0msr2vz4kyxrnp0w47j62zmkl7qzyrvjd2gy80nyc2w5fz6vl4pch35g7fy9th9x5n4vap8u6cec8zky2jwgtgy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx2t04uckadmz5a9lxdr7hdj0kqfc707napp9ngcghkym6usav6pgtmfe3k'>nevent1q…fe3k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Catbird?! I get them in my back yard sometimes!<br/><br/><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_catbird">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_catbird</a><br/><br/>... they really do sound like they&#39;re meowing! 2026-06-28T03:37:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz7pyh5nwzr0ln2nydt8faatj9uj6mle3shum3zq7t9g9umu5wvtszyrvjd2gy80nyc2w5fz6vl4pch35g7fy9th9x5n4vap8u6cec8zky2rnx3gf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp8pvsryqkqyxgk79j9rv4ep6qtsdn6qsuj8gz6g3gn878l383gqsl6k5ml'>nevent1q…k5ml</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>STILL MY FAVORITE - Signed, a huge swing-wing / variable geometry fan 2026-05-03T01:53:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsppuv7p5fppxaq6my9z095t9h6frhjfc47lr3eu3xvwjnnvrwmcuqzyrvjd2gy80nyc2w5fz6vl4pch35g7fy9th9x5n4vap8u6cec8zky23shz73 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxnqya4lz63nhc0dpa6ttk90k9kh3rpgdpjf2rljcmwz3vdnkvfwq8ywdt0'>nevent1q…wdt0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As a counterpoint, I was in a vicious &#34;I have all these plants, I should buy nice planters to put them in&#34; to &#34;I have all these nice planters, I should buy plants to put in them&#34; infinite loop for years. Etsy in particular was quite the enabler.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub139cpf9jkc4swjvx40eqt7dwznkgznpa280nhuhs580h3zzqd4s3qnsw37s" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>aeva</span> (<span class="italic">npub139c…w37s</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1urx3t48an3pv2vh37akfaks6ty5aujgslfccaa2g4egmam4c2czqg3v0z4" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Christine Lemmer-Webber</span> (<span class="italic">npub1urx…v0z4</span>)</a></span> 2026-03-06T01:49:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqhhz2spulx2k3x86jjf7k92v0ux9axmu3hztphr9uy5l7ufkhnhczyrvjd2gy80nyc2w5fz6vl4pch35g7fy9th9x5n4vap8u6cec8zky2s6tfqe In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq0z6l367w05hndmxnjv7y0f3s0kvgavxzd9wcewqsh74y94ssugqaqf3c4'>nevent1q…f3c4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m not a sailor, but a backpacker. Having overnight hiked deep into the wilderness more than once:<br/><br/>Yes, the night sky outside of civilization is magic. To think everywhere on Earth used to be that way 😭 2026-03-05T01:19:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxyq7salzjq6vvnua3skfkcxx8mwpvax3y3a8q3c5w9eveufkzr0gzyrvjd2gy80nyc2w5fz6vl4pch35g7fy9th9x5n4vap8u6cec8zky2z2jscg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsge4ycwtguac45y7ky83sp8szd9acstf89ssz6cgpp6yt0u2ndj2c9fzyls'>nevent1q…zyls</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I tried reading this a few days ago and gave up halfway through, completely overwhelmed with thoughts that I had lost touch with reality.<br/><br/>It&#39;s Timecube levels of unhinged. 2026-01-18T20:20:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdphujc87mgm9q99f605xy9pfuzn7pt0ef8683rkvl3ww7p8wuvmqzyrvjd2gy80nyc2w5fz6vl4pch35g7fy9th9x5n4vap8u6cec8zky2qrw7v2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstm93pq97fvr76x2t6jq0g5apsv0kqvndnd65hgtsssjafsgxrascw02fqj'>nevent1q…2fqj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s feeling very American Airlines 191.<br/><br/>( Not an accusation of improper maintenance, just that... history kinda rhymes. ) 2025-11-05T03:19:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf822l0ad739wpwsfu4avcv5fxxpyryaqew0azqszq4eu84ph3a8szyrvjd2gy80nyc2w5fz6vl4pch35g7fy9th9x5n4vap8u6cec8zky2m8zuzl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsggt32myzd8sm9y0twhqewx9y4ctfkg52l9nka336uvk50uaqjy5syz4geq'>nevent1q…4geq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was really worried about Stooges&#39;s Bar. It&#39;s popular with UPS employees after their shift; fortunately I&#39;m hearing they evacuted everyone without incident.<br/><br/>Honestly this could have been far, far worse. From 17L it would&#39;ve directly impacted the Ford plant, another busy 24x7 operation. Off 35L there&#39;s a lot of hotels; 35R you&#39;re talking one of the busiest highway interchanges in the city. And during rush hour. 2025-11-05T00:43:33Z