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Cake day: September 1st, 2024

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  • Because they are one of the few mega companies that hasn’t shrinkflated, enshittified, or otherwise crumbled the quality of their offering. Haven’t sold out the privacy of their customer base to advertising companies, and are generally good to deal with for customers and developers.

    It’s not a secret formula that no other company can learn from. It’s as simple as not being dicks IMO.

    For some reason, most companies seem to grow too a certain threshold at which they sell their souls to profit and will self destruct to get more of it. Steam thankfully isn’t one of them…… yet.







  • It sounds to me like you are at the mercy of the bots then unfortunately. I have had literal empty websites up just to see what the bots do and within a few hours the sites are hammered with crazy bot traffic trying everything from MySQL connections, ssh, Wordpress sniffing, xss attacks, you name it. They don’t even seem to care that the site is 403 forbidden or just a blank page.

    It’s the World Wide Web we live in nowadays according to my experience.


  • I try not to expose mine to the internet for this reason. I have it on a central server that WireGuard connects to a vps overseas, then I have it tunneled to my home server through a random port as needed for access from the net, then I block it again. All my machines sync this way with the central server, either through vpn tunnel or directly on my LAN depending on where I am.

    Unless you need to showcase your code, I wouldn’t recommend exposing your instance to the internet at all. And if you have to, maybe reverse proxying it and add some monitoring and blocking software to help. Like fail2ban or the like. Good luck.


  • I disagree. Not in the sense that you are wrong. The similarities to previous grave mistakes is often stunning.

    My own personal thoughts are that even though the similarities are there to other historical blunders, the sheer scale and depth of pure stupidity and gross incompetence on full display right now for all the world to see is so mind numbingly unprecedented on so many levels that it shouldn’t be referred to as anything other than a brand new low.

    It’s like referring to anything else somehow makes it seem less bad. Even though past conflicts were devastating.