Projects and other updates
A followup to last year s post about DDoSes. In that post, I covered what was, at the time, fairly new and novel (to me) attacks on our wiki, The Cutting Room Floor. In the time since, I ve had to observe and defend against various new and ongoing attacks. Some background Our wiki is hosted on Continue reading "Self-hosting in the era of LLMs and cheap compute"
If the owner or maintainer of a project does not want AI-generated code in their project, people should not submit AI-generated code to it. That people so often do does not mean the project should allow it: it means we have a culture that fails to understand consent. Recently, Fedora adopted an AI-assisted contributions policy . Continue reading "No means no"
Or, in short, it s 2025, man, you really don t gotta allow Pokemon: Racism Version. Update 2 (10-08-2025): RetroAchievements has posted an official announcement with new policies and clarifications around what is and isn't allowed, and it addresses the points I wanted below. My only remaining complaint is that we shouldn't have gotten here in the Continue reading "RetroAchievements and Moderation"
The LLM scraper epidemic is hitting us, too, on top of a persistent DDoS threat
Nothing much to say yet, just making sure the wheels on this site haven t entirely fallen off.
I mentioned in the previous post about my DIY network monitoring that I d put the code up eventually, and that time is (or was) now. It s still not really cleaned up, but if you want to run it, you can do that now. It requires fping, which is a tool you should be able to Continue reading "Ping chart code"
I ve been posting images on Twitter and elsewhere lately that are largely green squares with red dots on them. While I intend to write a longer post on that later, for now, I ll make a quick explanation of them. A sample image from January 4th is below; there is also a webpage with an updated Continue reading "DIY Network Monitoring"
We ve been having a lot of internet issues at the Romhaus, the subject of which will have to be a topic for another post. While we ve been trying to get it fixed, one of the things that was recommended to us by Cox was purchasing a new modem to replace our old (but still otherwise Continue reading "Cable modems are garbage"
Jul s a forum I run. If you ve been around me for a while, you ve probably heard of it. It s a fork of an ancient forum, both in the sense of community (from Acmlm s Board) and software (Acmlmboard). They were created by (surprise) Acmlm back in early 2001, 18 years ago. The community went through a lot Continue reading "Jul, a forum"
One of the goofier projects I ve started recently has been toying with an Adaptive Micro Systems LED sign, specifically the PPD220RED (for personal proximity display , and its color). I ve wanted to own a goofy LED marquee sign for years, and after some searching I managed to snag one on eBay. Among other things, I ve hooked Continue reading "LED Sign stuff"
New year, new thing? I ve talked way too much about how social media sucks and yet it s where I put way too much of my thoughts and my journal isn t really a good place for that, either, being that it s more personal. I ve tried various blogs before too many times, arguably but this Continue reading "First post"