Same way you protect anything else valuable in your house - by locking the door and potentially installing (selfhosting) security cameras. I’d completely disagree that a server will be a target for a common thief. What are they gonna do with that? Who is gonna buy that from them? What can they buy with that? It’s useless garbage for them.
I understand, but the shift in user behaviour is significant and I think websites are not taking it into account. If the users move more and more to AI, and since Google introduced AI mode it’s only a question of time until it becomes the default, we will see more and more of what we thing are AI crawlers and less and less organic users.
AI seems to be the new middleman between you and the user, and if you block the middleman, you block the user. For people with hobby websites or established sites it may make sense because people either know of them, or getting more exposure is not a wish or requirement, but for everyone else, it will be painful.
I just realized an interesting thing - if I use Gemini, and tell it to do deep research, it actually goes to the websites it knows/finds, and looks up the content to provide up-to-date answers. So, some of those AI crawlers are actually not crawlers, but actual users who just use AI instead of coming directly to the site.
Soo… blocking AI completely could also potentially reduce exposure, especially as more and more people use AI to basically do searches instead of browsing themselves. That would also explain the amount of requests daily - could be simply different users using AI to research for some topic.
Point is, you should evaluate if the AI requests are just proxies of real users, and blocking AI blocks real users from knowing your site exists.
Anubis is the name of the tool. Also, Cloudflare just announced they have something against AI scrapers.
Because “We are trying for a baby” gives the “we fuck right now every moment we can” vibe, while “we hope to have kids soon” gives the “we have sex just like any other couple in the world, we just don’t use protection” vibe.
If you are discusted by “we plan to have kids soon” you might aswell be discusted by the fact people have sex in general. In that case you simply have an oversexualized mind and the problem really isn’t anymore in what words people use because any words will trigger you. You do notice women walk around with breasts. So discusting.
I would also jump to the first conclusion that OP is oversexualizing stuff, but on the other hand, there are many other ways to give the information which doesn’t induce pictures in brains od people who are very visually oriented. “We hope/plan to have kids in the near future/soon/within a year or two”.
Same as we don’t need to know people have blasting diarrhea, enough to say they have digestive problems or stomach pain.
I share a Spotify family plan with friends, but I use Zotify to make backups, which I then host in Jellyfin.
Some things would, but not everything, so at best case, I would need to run 2 computers instead of one. I have a beefy spare M1 MacBook Pro, uses almost the same as the Raspberry but it’s horrible for selfhosting.
I thought the hidden cost is my power bill by having a PC run 24/7…
I wanted something that has OnlyOffice integration and basically an selfhosted Google Drive, so tried Nexcloud as the most popular solution… but… it was a pain to set up, its internal workings make handling reverse proxying a pain and it feels extremely slow.
I will try out Seafile, they seem to have just the 2 things I need and nothing more.
I don’t want to pay money if I don’t know what I’m paying for. I would rather pay no taxes but get a monthly bill for… Road maintenance in front of my house, for ex. It’s taxes, but I actually know what I’m giving out money for.
And the goal of this petty picture is what? To show how immature trans people are?
If you want cheap and simple - Time4VPS. I am with them for a couple of years and for the price there is nothing really to complain about. If you take 2y contract, the cheapest plans are like €2.5/month.
If you do decide to maybe go with them, it would be appreciated if you could use my affiliate link, otherwise… just type Time4VPS into google. They are based in Lithuania.
People will pay for solutions to their problems, and most people and companies don’t seem to want to hear - that we have the problem of AI being in everything.
The next BIG THING will have a single marketing label - no AI inside.
Actually, I need to update my github repos with “No AI inside” labels, stickers, etc. Might bring in more visibility.
Of course, you just need to make sure your power supply, however it is set up, needs to provide constant power over long term that the system needs at minimum. That means for ex. if you use solar, you need to have a big enough battery and array so that it can charge batteries throughout the day even when it’s cloudy so the system can be up overnight when there is no power generation happening. If you have for ex. a raspberry pi and a smartphone as a hotspot, you can probably have enough energy with an average UPS and one solar panel to make sure it will never go fully empty overnight, regardless how cloudy the day was.
Why can’t people abandon cars and use bicycles and public transportation to go around? Compared to cars pollution, flights are a drop in the ocean. I fly multiple times a year, but I don’t own a car.
Setup fail2ban
I think there is a possibility to have a local client using Gmail, with a rule set to delete mails on Gmail as soon as they are synced locally. So in this case Gmail would be nothing more than a relay/proxy, while your mails would actually be offline.
I would say the problem is not in taxing, it’s in the school system. Kids used to start working at 14, now they study until 30. You have “adults” that are basically still children from tax perspective. We need less school (the stuff we learn, not to ever use it in life again…) and more work.
It’s not bitching if it’s true. Nextcloud has really poor performance alone, it tries to do to many things at once and none of it ends up being good. It was amazing for it’s time and it’s idea but it simply doesn’t scale, not technically, not with time. They need to redo the architecture and probably move to something better performing than PHP. I never heard anyone in any environment even considering PHP as an option in 2025.