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You know exactly what this article is going to be.

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I’m kind of making a sleep deprived decision but since the financial situation is “fixed”, I’m moving oh.mg’s email back to Nubo and figuring out what I do with the BBS mail. I’m struggling a bit with the infra and this is the main problem.

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It turns out I found out something worse which to be fair I shouldn’t be surprised by, Facebook is knowingly being used as a DDoS vector and by the lack of responses on the dev forums, really don’t give a shit about it.

Initally I thought it might have been some AI shit, but no, plain old Big Tech not giving a fuck and damaging the internet for reasons question-mark-question-mark.

The clue to this is how fast I’m burning through credit with Bunny, I expected an initial peak from relaunching Plume instance. That started to drop off, but then this exposed that FB’s crawler was far too interested with photos. I did a search and voilà, this has been a problem for over 4 years.

Once I started to implement the not very easy task of blocking FB from Crawling, which it is still doing even with a 403 error on everything, I started to see the control checks in the logs of whoever is running the hit. Not sure why they are, this isn’t an old domain, nobody (except Kapitalistenschweines) I have really offended. But hey it’s the Internet® by GAFAM℠ who fucking knows why this shit is running.

So there you go, unless your website depends on Facebook (which if your ability to live exists in the hands of these clowns, you’re already fucked), just go block the User-Agent facebookexternalhit

Edit : to give you some context, this is what thier DDoS machine was sucking in per day before more drastic actions were taken to stop it. At those rates it is 152GB a week in non-genuine traffic that comes with a real financial cost.

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After my little success with oh.mg earlier, I decided that I sufficiently hate myself enough to try and expand this project. When I say expand, I mean fully deep in this affair to create myself even more problems than I actually need.

Using the same principal I did with running oh.mg over to /ohmg/ from ohmg.mmn.on.ca, I used some creative edge rules on the CDN to bring in two other subdomains hosted elsewhere under the same domain, as well as slip in one of the buckets on Storj I previously served from uploads.mmn.on.ca.

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Not a real blog post, but just here to say

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I know I know, this really could have been a toot, but I’m so excited about the minor effort I put into this.

First thing I did was get around to fixing some of the redirect issues on oh.mg, you see the site has bounced around a couple times and with the host in the UK things were good.

As a part of being an idiot, I moved it off to a self-hosted server, but what I didn’t realise is that the UK host was being a bit too strict with bot blocking. Unfortunately it blocked the Internet Archive

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You’ll probably notice after changing domains not that long ago, I’ve gone and done it again. I’d like to pretend that my constant need to do something isn’t responsible for this, but this one time I’m going to admit nostalgia probably had something to do with it.

You see all this time of chasing the dragon, I’ve had mmn.on.ca silently being brought along for a 27 year ride of existence. Since then I’ve always had my eye on the prize, and the prize was the top .ca version of this domain.

I think that going through the three to four month process to kick this whole thing off (even though I’m back to square one), then spinning up a server to host this WordPress site on my own, and a bunch of other small related projects sparked off the whole “it’s been here all this time”.

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To start off, this is the first post I’m mirroring on the newly refreshed Plume instance on u.sus.fr. There was a long tale that went behind this, some lolz behind the scenes, usual kind of stuff.

Anyways, why we’re here, as it has been a while since I’ve last updated, I figured I’d confirm that I continue to exist. I think I caught something from somewhere as this week I’ve basically been on my back feeling like death and not just because of the great times funemployment provide. One of the risks of existing outside in society.

I have some other news which isn’t yet confirmed, I’m not banking on it until the ink is dry, so I’m not going to mention it. Just keep in mind that there are non-depressive things happening in silence behind the screen here.

One big thing is the fucking Impôts, so as I very much suspected they had gone insane on my tax rate. I basically paid my taxes by February in 2023 and since then they’ve been creaming far too much off of me. There is absolutely zero irony to the fact that this shit government has intentionally been making me starve while threatening me for 600€ of money they’ve had in their coffers all along.

I won’t see this refund until August if I remember correctly and what a fucking joke this is as because “this is not how the system works”, they’re making me pay 90€ a month until I get my refund to clear the rest of the debt off. This was the lowest amount they could offer, because also fuck you.

I’m sure I had something else to mention but I’m in that awake but very tired zone, so you get what you get.

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I got an email from Storj, the object storage system I’ve been using and worse, recommending, since 2021. My account is so old school it got grandfathered in when they deployed new plans. That was the past though, Storj emailed me this on the 8th of March :

At Storj, we continually strive to enhance our platform to serve our customers better. We will be making an update to our account structure that will take effect starting in April.

What’s Changing?

You may have noticed a “Free Tier Coupon” that appears in your invoice. You can check your latest invoice to see the exact amount of the “Free Tier Coupon” you have. These typically are nominal amounts that have been part of our Free Tier offered to users to experience the product. We are discontinuing this program, effective April 1, 2024.

What Do You Need to Do?No action is required on your part as long as you continue to have a valid payment method on your account. 

Supporting You
As always, our support team is here to answer any questions or address any concerns you may have.  Please don’t hesitate to contact our help desk if you need assistance.

Looking Ahead
We’re excited about the future and committed to providing you with the best possible experience. We appreciate your understanding and continued support as we evolve.

Stay tuned for further updates, and thank you for being a part of the Storj community!

Warm regards,

The Storj Team

Well, they do say I can email their wonderful Customer Service Team for any questions or concerns, they are so excited about the future and all that shit. So I did

I wanted to express my displeasure regarding the upcoming change to the account structure with very short notice. I have been a long-time user of Storj and I would like to request some consideration to keep my existing grandfathered free tier going forward.

Me, Myself, and I

Kind of was expecting something, the spend on my account has always been under 50 cents, it would actually cost more to make me pay, so I was expecting some kind of half assed good will considering they just threw this at me with less than 30 days notice.

Thank you for contacting Storj. 

Thank you for reaching out to customer support regarding your free tier coupon on your Storj account. Please note our Terms of Service, which state “Company may change or eliminate any Promotional Credit at any time, without notice, including, but not limited to any coupon, or Promotional Credit designated as a free trial or free tier.”

As stated on our pricing page, and in an email sent to Pro Account users on or after February 27, 2024, and as announced in a forum post on February 27, 2024, Storj is deprecating the free tier effective April 1, 2024. As announced in the email you received, we are offering a grace period for impacted users to remove their data from Storj or add a payment method to continue using Storj by April 1, 2024. A 30-day free trial is now available through our sign up page.

If you wish to continue using the Storj Service, please see our documentation on how to add a payment method.

We hope you will continue to use the Storj service.

Storj

Well no dice, whatever, at least I had time to add a payment method by the 1st to start paying cents that I certainly hope Stripe will absolutely drain in fees. Except, no, I didn’t you know what is missing from any of those emails ? If you lack a payment method attached to your account THIS VERY MOMENT your account (even with the coupon that is very much still active and valid TODAY) will be heavily limited and it will absolutely break EVERYTHING silently.

I can accept less than 30 days notice when the end cost is almost nothing, I can accept being fobbed off, what I can’t tolerate is not being told you just fucked my account and that 12 days later I’d have to be fixing all the fucked uploads on four different WP sites at 4h in the god damn morning.

Thanks Storj you fucking clowns

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