Screenshot of Wesley Crusher looking intently at a computer with the Traveler.
Top text: “Too busy to notice” Bottom text: “The servers are down”
Screenshot of Wesley Crusher looking intently at a computer with the Traveler.
Top text: “Too busy to notice” Bottom text: “The servers are down”
Oh, honey buns— as a piefed.world user…
lol. You don’t know how good you have it. I am sure there our instance admin tries his best, but servers will be servers…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is PieFed.world unstable or something? I am genuinely interested in hearing more about that as I had considered making an account there.
From what I understand, this particular instance has been experiencing a lot of different types of attacks and attempting to mitigate a lot of AI traffic, so it’s been going down a bunch of times recently while the admin has been attempting to do with that sort of thing. Not that it is unstable per se, but the admin has been taking the instance off-line frequently for a few hours at a time in order to update the server and tweak it in order to deal with several extraneous issues.
It’s a much smaller instance than the main piefed instance, piefed.social.
Over the past month, however, it’s up time has been much better. I like this instance.
Ah that makes perfect sense. LW also gets a ton of hate, as too does PieFed, so I can well imagine trolls going so far as attacking it (obviously that’s my conspiracy theory hat on, but who knows - although “death to the infidels” does seem to me like it may include some light hacking of infidel-owned machines if they can get away with it… - yet it being purely due to AI scraping is unfortunately equally plausible)
What gives me pause about the instance is that the list of Categories I thought was empty for many months, and now is still quite light. Like, whether I would use any of those or not, it seems a signal that the instance admins have other priorities than to get around to such minor matters. Now I begin to see a bit of why. That earlier exceedingly unfriendly disclosure of code vulnerabilities - with zero advanced notice - may have also caused a lot of stress too.
Oh… oh, my, this is not at all what I was trying to describe. Wow this is such a vivid and incredibly imaginative narrative, I cannot possibly conceptualize that this could be true. No, I was referring to multiple DDoS attacks and AI bot scrapers overwhelming the server. Nothing so florid or colorful. No, much more mundane. sorry to disappoint you!
Lemmy may be argumentative and adversarial, but outright black hat cyber warfare? Ha ha ha ha… no.
But what a picture you painted! consider writing a sci-fi novel!
Again, this is a very small instance. When it gets overwhelmed with a gigantic amount of traffic suddenly, it doesn’t handle it well, and the admin will take it down to make tweaks before bringing it back online, and sometimes that that will take a little while. but they’re very proactive, and that’s a good thing!
It makes sense! Even though the result is even sadder as it means that literally all websites will be exposed to the same form of attack - the web is truly an unfriendly place these days:-(.
Oh, sweet bunny child… it’s a much wiser and better fortified place.
Sure, it’s not the bright green innocent fields it once was, but that could never last, even then we knew it. And we prepared. We enjoyed it while it lasted, and we moved on. No innocence was lost and while we may mourn for the past, the future comes for all of us.
Whether we like it or not, we must all move on. The future is inevitable.
Is that not the song of life?
funny alternative
Funnier but not quite the vibe I wanted to go for, so this one just for the lolz 😂
Love me some Kate Pulaski