The purpose of a system is what it does.
Award-winning journalist and author Rick Morton recently asked me for my thoughts on the government’s proposed changes to FOI law. As an alleged IT expert, consultant, and professional, people occasionally ask me about this overlap between my field of expertise and a silly hobby I picked up along the way.… Read More The post Thoughts on proposed changes to FOI law appeared first on eigenmagic .
It has now been a couple of weeks since I added new rate-limiting and blocking rules to some of my websites. What affect did it have? The above chart indicates that there has been some substantial affect, though not quite as dramatic as we might have hoped. The new rate… Read More The post AI scraper rate limiting performance appeared first on eigenmagic .
AI scrapers are a scourge and the battle against them is never-ending. Here are some tips for how I m using Nginx to rate-limit overly aggressive scrapers on some of my websites. I m also using fail2ban to take note of the rate-limit results and take further action to ban AI scrapers.… Read More The post Rate limiting AI scrapers with Nginx appeared first on eigenmagic .
I read over the recently released report on consumer attitudes to age assurance that was conducted in late 2024. The research was conducted to inform the government about Australians’ understanding of the issues related to age assurance and the policy options it is looking at. Specifically, Australia’s teen social media… Read More The post TL;JR: Age Assurance Consumer Research Report appeared…
I run a bunch of webservers and have gradually accumulated a few tricks that help manage the deluge of spam and bots that have taken over the modern Internet. Let me show you some. Read More The post Banning Bots with nginx maps appeared first on eigenmagic .
In this post I indulge in a Too Long; Justin Reads #tljr of the judgement in my Freedom of Information (FOI) case, Warren v Chief Executive Officer, Services Australia [2024] FCAFC 73. It was originally a thread on Mastodon, but since that s an ephemeral medium, I ve decided to archive a… Read More The post FOI Win Against the Australian Government appeared first on eigenmagic .
Zotero is a citation manager. It s free, open source, and really great. If you do any significant amount of writing, I highly recommend getting it and starting to use it. The sooner you incorporate it into your research and writing process, the sooner you ll have all your stuff in it… Read More The post In Praise of Zotero appeared first on eigenmagic .
Using systemd unit templates and EnvironmentFile to configure a pool of Sidekiq queue processes and threads. Read More The post Better Mastodon Sidekiq Scaling With Systemd EnvironmentFile appeared first on eigenmagic .
How to use systemd unit templates to scale Mastodon sidekiq processes. Read More The post Scaling Mastodon with systemd template units appeared first on eigenmagic .
Justin discloses the corporate hospitality he received in connection with HashiConf Global 2022. Read More The post Disclosure: HashiConf Global 2022 Edition appeared first on eigenmagic .