I'm sorry, but this was too difficult to read, the author is kinda cringe.
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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Xe Iaso my beloved
I am glad I bought 128gb of ram last year.
I am angry at myself for delaying the purchases of a mini PC about 4 months ago /:
Me too, I was waiting for a good deal in a GMKtec EVO-X2, but that is not going to happen.
If you buy now you can still brag about missing the next price increase when South Korea runs out of helium for chip production in 2 weeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
The National Helium Reserve, also known as the Federal Helium Reserve, was a strategic reserve of the United States, which once held over 1 billion cubic meters (about 170,000,000 kg)[a] of helium gas.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) transferred the reserve to the General Services Administration (GSA) as surplus property, but a 2022 auction[10] failed to finalize a sale.[11] On June 22, 2023, the GSA announced a new auction of the facilities and remaining helium.[12] The auction of the last helium assets was due to take place in November, 2023.[13] Though the last of the Cliffside reserve was to be sold by November 2023, more natural gas was discovered at the site than was previously known, and the Bureau of Land Management extended the auction to January 25, 2024 to allow for increased bids.[14] In 2024 the remaining reserve was sold to the highest bidder, Messer Group.[15]
Arguably not the best timing on that.
Gee I wonder who else has a lot of tappable helium- ah, right. russia.
Russians aren't brown skinned people tho. We almost exclusively bomb brown skin people.
We do, but what I mean is this is yet another way Russia will benefit from the pedo-war. Oil goes up, they become a critical supplier of helium, they'll make shitloads of billions to try and prop their own war machine back up. One big huge giant present to Putin, one dictator to another.
What makes this worse is that git servers are the most pathologically vulnerable to the onslaught of doom from modern internet scrapers because remember, they click on every link on every page.
The especially disappointing thing is that, for the specific case that Xe was running into, a better-written scraper could just recognize that this is a public git repository and just git clone the thing and get all the useful code without the overhead. Like, it's not even "this scraper is scraping data that I don't want it to have", but "this scraper is too dumb to just scrape the thing efficiently and is blowing both the scraper's resources and the server's resources downloading innumerable redundant copies of the data".
It's probably just as well, since the protection is relevant for other websites, and he probably wouldn't have done it if he hadn't been getting his git repo hammered, but...
EDIT: Plus, I bet that the scraper was requesting a ton of files at once from the server, since he said that it was unusable. Like, you have a zillion servers to parallelize requests over. You could write a scraper that requested one file at once per server, which is common courtesy, and you're still going to be bandwidth constrained if you're schlorping up the whole Internet. Xe probably wouldn't have even noticed.
Sorta like how people complain about bots scraping Lemmy, even though federation already exists as a standardized protocol for distributing data. Like any scraper who wanted to efficiently scrape Lemmy would just spin up their own instance and let federation do the scraping for them. It would even have the added benefit that they could set their server to ignore delete requests, so deleted posts/comments wouldn’t get automatically removed from their server. And then they could scrape as much as they wanted without impacting anyone else.
But they don’t want to do that, because it would require the smallest modicum of forethought. They don’t care that scrapers are trashing the Internet and causing massive bandwidth issues for hosters. They just want the data, and they want it now. All of those “bots are flooding my server and eating all my bandwidth, so legitimate users can’t actually access the site” complaints are for other people.
looks at slides
I see where the anime catgirl logo that Anubis uses came from.
Remember that if you get an idea, fuck around, find out, and write down what you’ve learned: you’ve literally just done science. Well, with computers, so it’d be computer science, but you get my point.
Honestly it’s never been easier to start doing things, and doing things is very fun. Good advice!
Also, how is the author using 1password for credentials on server? They have service accounts now, but is there a better way than just always providing a credential when asked?