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Hey there.

My Apache server is getting for many days a massive amount of requests on a particular repository, which kills it (due to maximum workers limit passed). I've deactivated the repository and I'm banning IPs still trying to access it, and in less than an hour I have already ~17000 unique IPs banned.

That really looks like a DDoS even if I have no idea why somebody would attack my server.

How can I deal with that? Note that I don't want to use Cloudflare.

TIA

#askfedi #admin #ddos

in reply to Daniel Gultsch

as soon as someone steps up and implements it: gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient…

The fediverse is decentralized, there are no blockers, just go and do it!

TheHatedOne has interviewed Hanna - and it was one of nicest interviews ever. 🥰 Check out what we at Tuta think not just about privacy, but also about ethics, AI, and how putting privacy front and center makes marketing more difficult - and why it still matters!
👉 invidious.f5.si/watch?v=6Xzv3n…
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Hi I'm Cy, a total loser who has written some novels that nobody reads at fedicy.us.to/stories/ I also do a lot of programming that nobody uses or looks at, such as fedicy.us.to/forum Don't have a cell phone, don't make any money, don't have a family, or any sort of relationship, can't have a family at this point, never went on any adventures, don't have any life experiences to relate, and don't really sing, play, or write music anymore. There's nothing about me worth knowing and I am a little bitter about it. I'm currently not committing suicide and uncomfortably lingering and serving as an example of how everything you tried to do to make things better has failed.

Anyway I post silly jokes and actually boost crisis posts and try to find people posting good news, instead of bad news.

#introduction

Side point on #ChatControl: When I worked on the law in the European Parliament, in the face of questionably legal, and highly problematic behavior by DG HOME, I prepared a whitepaper on why it was such a terrible Idea.

As it is in the public interest, I have decided to make that white paper public.

jmaris.me/chatcontrol_issues.p…

I have an idea. Instead of giving billions to a war monger for a so called "shield", why can't we use these billions to build a resilient infrastructure in Canada, notably infrastructure for a "Canadian cloud" that is vendor neutral and can work without any connection to the US.

Subsidising the GAFAM to build data-centers is NOT that. It's just tax cut to american companies.

#cdnpoli

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in reply to Hubert Figuière

" when new money enters the economy, it benefits those closest to the source first while others face rising costs. Today, purchases of proprietary software echo this theory in a similar way. Vendors and shareholders profit early, while taxpayers and communities shoulder the burden of recurring fees, upgrade costs, and discarded hardware."

news.opensuse.org/2025/09/15/c…

@thunderbird super excited about the changes to the DB you are working on. Are threads going to still be built only with headers (no weird algorithm which decides for us what is part of the same thread and what is not?)

Please keep RFC compliant threads! there are so few clients that still do this unfortunately.

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/v…

More than 300 people will be attending The Matrix Conference next week. One of the most anticipated presentations is from Sweden’s Försäkringskassan.

Based on insights from eSam, the Swedish public sector wants to move on from proprietary, siloed communication systems.

Anna and Kenneth will cover the latest developments within SAFOS, a service designed to establish a national standard for secure messaging, video conferencing, and real-time collaboration.

conference.matrix.org/register

State Of The Bird 2024/25 - great report by @thunderbird 's team: blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/s…

Thank you for this wonderful piece of software. Can't wait to see the new database in action and I'll continue to donate ❤️

#mail #thunderbird

This is your yearly reminder to #contribute to the apps you depend daily and still respect your #privacy are #free and #opensource. Demonstrate your love for them, help them do what they do best.

Today I contributed to @kunzisoft and @davx5app.

@keepassxc, @signalapp and @thunderbird will next.

#фалыстыннаш

существует две правды.

видео на котором поле, усеянное трупам и полицейский кричит «есть кто живой»

мурло которое вылезает на сцену с гениальным умозаключением. зрителей фестиваля Нова убил вертолет апач. есть ли у палестинцев такие вертолеты? нет. и ебаная толпа долбоебов, верящая в плоскую землю и то, что Израиль сам разъебенил с вертолета фестиваль Нова, чтобы напасть на бедных арабов в газе.

как мы можем сосуществовать с ними? никак.

We really want to kill the planet as fast as possible

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Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would run from northern Alberta to the U.S. Midwest, during his conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the meeting.

The source said Carney expressed renewed national interest *(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's Alberta)* in the pipeline from the Canadian side and the U.S. president was receptive to the project advancing.

cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-tr…

#cdnpoli

Yesterday Twitter showed me a video of a known journalist interviewing a famous muslim US representative, where they cheerfully talk how the representative married and has sex with her brother.

Very realistic looking yet 100% fake. So many will believe it.

Insanely racist, islamophobic and defamatory.

Non consensual deep fakes are so obviously problematic, and in this political environment absolutely incendiary.

People involved in facilitating this should be arrested.
mas.to/@carnage4life/115338574…

🌊You have heard the EU bubble's new buzzword "deregulation" and you have no idea what it means? Or even better, you know what it means and whant to know how to fight it?

That's why we joined forces with out friends at @lobbycontrol to create free lobby tour of Brussels about the D-word!

🗓️ Join us on October 13th at 4pm
📝 It is free, but you have to register via ceo@corporateeurope.org
👟This is a physical tour of the European Quarter in Brussels
⌚ It will take about 90min

📷 by Marcella Via

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Did you notice Tuta's new colors? We've already heard great feedback, particularly about the blue dark theme. 💙 What are your thoughts about this update?!

✨ New color themes
✨ Apply dark mode to emails even if they contain colors
✨ Auto-save drafts

The last one is not visible, but super handy: Tuta now saves drafts automatically so if your device shuts down, your Tuta draft will not be lost! 🎉

in reply to Patrick Breyer

🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2…
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As an experiment, I am quite literally #vibeCoding an #accessibility mod for a game. I'm about 90% of the way there (AI is making a mess of things but even a broken clock is right twice a day), and so far, I have spent a grand total of six dollars, and maybe about a half an hour of work.
But sure, keep telling me making things #accessible is too expensive, takes too much time and doesn't need priority.
Want to force #developers to use #AI? Do me a favor, force them to use it for this as well while you're busy making their lives miserable :P #rant

"Google is supposed to begin distributing third-party app stores inside the Play Store and mirror Play Store content in other stores."

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1…

Should @fdroidorg be added to Google Play?

  • Yes, the world needs to know about F-Droid (51%, 140 votes)
  • No, it must stay in the free world (37%, 102 votes)
  • I don't care (11%, 31 votes)
273 voters. Poll end: 5 hours ago

in reply to Torsten Grote

Missing option, though that would probably be unrealistic: "Only if signed by F-Droid".

Why? When Google signs, it adds proprietary BLOBs to the APK as well (keyword: DEPENDENCY_INFO_BLOCK, FROSTING_BLOCK). So the APK as it would then be distributed via PlayStore would no longer be fully FOSS.

Why unrealistic? As for new apps, Google no longer accepts APKs signed by their devs.

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Heimdal support in #curl is now history: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1893…
#curl