Hi #lazyweb! I just fashioned a knob that goes on a #madsen kg271 #cargobike wheel lock. Where do people post models for #3dprinting these days, where the models are findable (implying some amount of centralization), but the site works (last I checked, this means not Thingiverse) and the organization is not toxic in some way? (... is there an #activitypub extension for 3d model sharing? ... someone wanted to do one in 2023, https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/federated-app-space-for-3d-file-sharing-with-complex-tools-and-visualization/3412 ... who were you, Y0z64? WHAT DID YOU SEE? https://xkcd.com/979)

Anybody have a fail2ban or other solution for blocking scraping in Nginx config? Asking for a friend who is tired of getting excessive CPU warnings from assholes scraping his git forge... #lazyweb

#LazyWeb

I remember as a child seeing a documentary about one of the most idiotic projects that the Nazis did:

Some of their senior leadership so firmly believed the Hollow Earth theory that they set up a V2 launcher on a South Pacific island with a view of slingshotting missiles around the Sun and landing them anywhere in Europe or America. It turns out the Sun isn't in the middle of the Earth (who knew?!?) so this didn't work.

It came to mind because another government seems to have a similar attitude to science at the moment.

I can find no online references to this at all. Did the documentary maker make the whole thing up? Did I dream the documentary?

Do I remember someone mentioning a simple solution for preventing Mastodon instances from hammering a website when a link is posted?

(Might have slightly broken Mrs E's website, but I think it's recovered now.)

#LazyWeb #AskMastodon

@Schneems I just found myself telling a coworker that Ruby RAM usage is a "high water mark," then realized I might not have noticed any updates in MRI. Are you aware of any changes in Ruby's handling of RAM since you wrote this in 2019? https://www.schneems.com/2019/11/07/why-does-my-apps-memory-usage-grow-asymptotically-over-time/

#lazyweb (please and thank you)