I like life sims because I can live out the fantasy of owning property, having an office that isn't my bedroom, and having a cat
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Tried out #TinyLife the other day, it's a cute sims alternative. -
Tried out #TinyLife the other day, it's a cute sims alternative.Tiny Life is also very queer which is cool, lots of character builder options and queer characters in the city
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Tried out #TinyLife the other day, it's a cute sims alternative.EA is awful and has ruined The Sims through so many micro transactions and soullessness. So very much glad to see alternatives whilst I wait for Paralives
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Tried out #TinyLife the other day, it's a cute sims alternative. -
Tried out #TinyLife the other day, it's a cute sims alternative.Tried out #TinyLife the other day, it's a cute sims alternative. It has a lot of potential but is missing a lot. It appears to be made by a single computer science student
Anyway, here's me
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New blogpost:I've had full text feeds for a long time, in both Atom and jsonfeed formats as RSS is fairly obsolete by now. I like feeds, I even made a new tab browser extension with a feed widget
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When it comes to your self-hosted services, what sort of attitude do you have when it comes to installing updates?I have unattended updates on at the server level. Specific server software is on docker and so requires me to manually go upgrade, helps to avoid breakage
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I have an obnoxious problem with crawlers eating bandwidth on my personal web site—not just the fact that crawlers consume so much bandwidth, but rather a behaviour that is absolutely next-level.Ah yes, worth doing as it also improves your SEO by not having thousands of similar pages
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I have an obnoxious problem with crawlers eating bandwidth on my personal web site—not just the fact that crawlers consume so much bandwidth, but rather a behaviour that is absolutely next-level.To block the abusive subnets, I used this tool to look up the IP ranges from example IP addresses. You can see all the IP ranges for a particular host: https://www.whatismyip.com/asn/AS150436/
I then blocked using ipset/iptables but other options exist depending on your setup
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I have an obnoxious problem with crawlers eating bandwidth on my personal web site—not just the fact that crawlers consume so much bandwidth, but rather a behaviour that is absolutely next-level.Many crawlers ignore this in my experience, especially the AI ones
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I have an obnoxious problem with crawlers eating bandwidth on my personal web site—not just the fact that crawlers consume so much bandwidth, but rather a behaviour that is absolutely next-level.For your particular case, you should return a 404 if the URL contains both 2025 and 2026. This would stop them getting into invalid combinations. You can make it so the UI never links to these combinations by *replacing* rather than appending years if one already exists
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I have an obnoxious problem with crawlers eating bandwidth on my personal web site—not just the fact that crawlers consume so much bandwidth, but rather a behaviour that is absolutely next-level.The exact thing has happened to me recently with the tags. I now require users to log in to filter by multiple tags and I've blocked the subnets of the bots
If I wanted to allow guest users to search by multiple tags, I'd probably try the following options - (1) changing it to a POST request (2) requiring JavaScript (3) using Anubis (4) looking into ip masked rate limiting, so a rate limit for like multiple ip addresses in the same block
I wrote a blog post about my situation here https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2026/04/16/contentdb-ddos/