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Admiral Patrick

@ ptz @dubvee.org

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I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

Special skills include: Knowing all the "na na na nah nah nah na" parts of the Three's Company theme.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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  • Reading "Q-Squared" and trying to follow the track changes has me like...

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  • MFW I can only find birthday wrapping paper to wrap the presents today:

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  • I've made an Anti AI logo

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  • If you paid for an Android app in the last 10 years Google might owe you money

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  • At best. And it's probably gonna be a <= $2 Google Play Store gift card.

  • Erasure - A Little Respect [1988]

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  • that's the spirit!

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  • 🍻

  • Why does Lemmy feel ephemeral?

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  • Well, removed yes. Deleted, not always.

  • Ah yes, negative downvotes

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  • That gave me an idea for an April Fool's Day easter egg in Tesseract. Represent upvotes as negative downvotes and downvotes as negative upvotes.

    Here's hoping I remember to do that lol.

  • And The History Channel showed documentaries that weren't about aliens.

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  • I remember both of those going downhill in real time but the one that hit me the hardest was Discovery Channel. One day it was Bill Nye, Mythbusters, Shark Week, and science documentaries and the next it was Pawn Stars, Swamp Loggers, and American Chopper. At least we got a nice meme template out of that last one.

  • "Reroute power to the deflector dish and modify to emit an inverse tachyon pulse"

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  • that's the spirit!

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  • Fuck it, it's Christmas Tuesday.

  • In what way am I the product when using CloudFlare's free tier?

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  • I've been looking into crowdsec for ages now and still haven't gotten around to even a test deployment. One of these days, lol, and I'll get around to it.

  • In what way am I the product when using CloudFlare's free tier?

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  • Oooooh. That's smart. I mostly host apps, but in theory, I should be able to dynamically modify the response body and tack on some HTML for a hidden button and do that.

    I used to disallow everything in robots.txt but the worst crawlers just ignored it. Now my robots.txt says all are welcome and every bot gets shunted to the tarpit 😈

  • In what way am I the product when using CloudFlare's free tier?

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  • I've got bot detection setup in Nginx on my VPS which used to return 444 (Nginx for "close the connection and waste no more resources processing it), but I recently started piping that traffic to Nepenthes to return gibberish data for them to train on.

    I documented a rough guide in the comment here. Of relevance to you are the two .conf files at the bottom. In the deny-disallowed.conf, change the line for return 301 ... to return 444

    I also utilize firewall and fail2ban in the VPS to block bad actors, overly-aggressive scrapers, password brute forces, etc and the link between the VPS and my homelab equipment never sees that traffic.

    In the case of a DDoS, I've done the following:

    • Enable aggressive rate limits in Nginx (it may be slow for everyone but it's still up)
    • Just stop either Wireguard or Nginx on the VPS until the storm blows over. (Crude but useful to avoid any bandwidth overages if you're charged for inbound traffic).

    Granted, I'm not running anything mission-critical, just some services for friends and family, so I can deal with a little downtime.

  • In what way am I the product when using CloudFlare's free tier?

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  • I used to use HAProxy but switched to Nginx so I could add the modsecurity module and run WAF services. I still use HAProxy for some things, though.

  • In what way am I the product when using CloudFlare's free tier?

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  • I have never used it, so take this with a grain of salt, but last I read, with the free tier, you could not secure traffic between yourself and Cloudflare with your own certs which implies they can decrypt and read that traffic. What, if anything, they do with that capability I do not know. I just do not trust my hosted assets to be secured with certs/keys I do not control.

    There are other things CF can do (bot detection, DDoS protection, etc), but if you just want to avoid exposing your home IP, a cheap VPS running Nginx can work the same way as a CF tunnel. Setup Wireguard on the VPS and have your backend servers in Nginx connect to your home assets via that. If the VPS is the "server" side of the WG tunnel, you don't have to open any local ports in your router at all. I've been doing that, originally with OpenVPN, since before CF tunnels were ever offered as a service.

    Edit: You don't even need WG, really. If you setup a persistent SSH tunnel and forward / bind a port to your VPS, you can tunnel the traffic over that.

  • Captain Penjamin Sisko

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  • YSK: The pulled 60 Minutes CECOT segment aired in Canada and is available online

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  • I'm always wary of any .news domain because literally anyone can run a blog and buy a cheap .news domain to point to it.

  • Reading "Q-Squared" and trying to follow the track changes has me like...

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  • I also like to read in the evening, usually right before bed. My Kobo has adjustable color temp but I usually leave the backlight off and just use my lamp like with a normal book. Looks better and easier on the eyes IMO and also makes the epaper seem more magical. I dunno why, but the backlight on them ruins the effect for me.

    Haven't tried a color one. TBH, the Kobo I have is the very entry-level one since I wasn't sure if I'd use it often or not. Turns out I love it so may upgrade at some point.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Taking "selfish lover" to a whole new level...

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    This is the bridge of the Enterprise, Mr. Crusher. We don't have time for Razzle Dazzle or All That Jazz.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org

    Make Sure Your Mind is in the Gutter for This One

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Like and subscribe for more dating tips

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    At least they make them easy to identify/avoid...

  • Cybersecurity @sh.itjust.works
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    Microsoft isn't fixing 8-year-old zero day used for spying

    www.theregister.com /2025/03/18/microsoft_trend_flaw/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first AI-generated edition

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2025/mar/18/italian-newspaper-says-it-has-published-worlds-first-ai-generated-edition
  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Since updating from 0.19.3, my instance no longer pulls Youtube metadata/thumbnails

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Has anyone ever migrated a Lemmy instance to Piefed?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Mondays, am I right?

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Super Nintendo Hardware Is Running Faster as It Ages

    www.404media.co /super-nintendo-hardware-is-running-faster-as-it-ages/
  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Truffault and "Two" having a Garak and Bashir Chat

  • Meshtastic @mander.xyz
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    Link Budgets: Can someone ELI5?

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Patton Oswalt - KFC Famous Bowls

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats | The Walrus

    thewalrus.ca /i-used-to-teach-students-now-i-catch-chatgpt-cheats
  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Took a break from Trek to watch Dark Matter and realized...I was still watching Trek.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    A major blackout hits Chile, leaving millions without power

    apnews.com /article/chile-blackout-power-outage-south-america-failure-electricity-8224a4cbcfc98c4f17e7d1e3b00936b5
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    What Red Hot Chili Peppers sound like to people who don’t like Red Hot Chili Peppers

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    When software devs expect you to pipe a script straight from the internet into Bash...

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Power company oursourced their payments. Every method except autopay now has a fee