AppleStrudel @ AppleStrudel @reddthat.com

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NTU is just so big and all the buildings are just so far apart that it isn't really practical to put a fence around the whole thing.

But banning tourist buses completely on threat of trespass would go a long way to mitigate the issue.

And then there are Orcas.

Hey j4k3, just completed 1 half—the easier half—of the automation. Hope I can get the rest up soon too.

Ouch, that's just so annoying. Maybe some sort of human challenge for anyone that's not authenticated whenever the server load is high could help?...

Edit: unless the scraping is coming from the ActivityPub protocol as a bunch of instances trying to federate (or something? I'm still not familiar with how it all works, besides the payloads looking like a bunch of .json), in which case, my suggestion probably wouldn't apply all that well.

Looks like Reddthat is back. The upgrade was a success I hope?

You too LadyButterfly.

That is way too cute. Me, I just have a giant routine tracker page in my notebook to mark things off of as I go.

If it's tax, you could pull the "you might be doing tax fraud (or some other kind of fraud if it doesn't work that way) by keeping the tax dollars only" card. I've done that before for a restaurant charging tax on the discounted part of their menu. I could readily believe that it was just some bug in the POS, it only added up to about less than $2 in total, and it certainly wasn't worth the trouble for myself to be bring it up. But those ~$2 per bill really would add up in hurting a lot of people unfairly in a very tiny way. That and that the restaurant would likely (probably?) get a very unpleasant surprise visit from revenue if they had kept it up.

Not sure how it works in Australia, but surely they could put that in as some sort of sales tax reversal or something and not need to pay for services not rendered.

Feels really nice to see my contribution at work improving a community that is so accepting. You're very quick on that too!

Clean up of orphaned dynamic cloud computing resources once they are no longer in use, should the main pipeline fail to do so, such as due to issues like the Jenkins server crashing, or from bugs from the base machine creation pipeline failing to delete them.

Having VMs continue to run without anyone's awareness for however many hours it takes someone to go in and manually clean them up can be very expensive, very very expensive. Will pay for my salary in wasted computing cost expensive. I really should get back to work, see ya 👋.

Being behind on an automation cleanup script. I didn't do very well mentally 2 days ago and had to take a day off, I do feel much better now though.

You're doing great work @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone! Keep it up!

It's nice to see a small and pleasant community grow. We really do need much more of these these days, maybe not all in one place or we may unintentionally emulate the social media giants in result if not in ideal despite our best intentions, but much more of it, in every corner of the internet.

Edit: I'm not talking about Reddthat in any way, by the way. I'm just mildly (very mildly for now) concerned when looking at Lemmy.world. It's not what their doing, or how their doing it. It's the size of that instance and the number of large communities that spring up there. I'm happy for them for reaching the size they have, but federation and decentralization are very powerful stuff that would prevent any one ideal from a very small few people from dominating. We'll all benefit from a diverse set of opinions, even if I would disagree harshly with some of them. And having them all in one place would necessarily prevent that from happening while leaving little room for alternatives.

!rainworld@lemmy.world (a game I had fond memories of) was a community in Lemmy.world. There are traces of it's existence and once some decent activity from the outside (src), but I don't know what happened to it at all. It's just gone... Maybe it's been put into private visibility, which would be the best case scenario, but I can't help but worry that something else might have happened to it. It's a really wholesome community elsewhere on Reddit and YouTube, and it would be a shame if it no longer exists in Lemmy when it once did.

We really do need that decentralization and "replication" of similar communities across different instances run by different people to not have that happen as much. Even if just to protect from a server going down completely like Lemm.ee, as well as the seeming ending of a community by other means.

Um, sorry for the long post. I just had some stuff on my mind, I didn't intend to make it this long when I did the edit.

We do them this way for our Jira tickets at work too (but by component/product). It really is the easiest in the absence of flairs.

Well, I mean, if it works as intended.

For me, it's less about spending money to "pay to win" your way to a higher skill level in a sport via "equipment doping" and more about how much more enjoyment you can get out of it. Below a certain grade and quality, equipment starts to actively get in your way compared to a comparable fairly priced alternative. I'm not going to completely overspend on it, but if I'm not otherwise strapped for cash, I'm not going to grit my teeth and bare it. You can always earn more money, but you can never get your time back. And life is just too short to be cheapening out your experiences like that.

I could have sworn rounding up would've been just enough to cover it. But after fees, I've appeared to have fallen just short.

But that should be okay, this should help relieve you of that donation stress for the year ahead I hope.

So, seeing as how it is now at $19.63/week, and assuming you're not getting any donations from anywhere else...

You're short about just under A$38/month.

It wouldn't be fair for you to both maintain the server on your own time and pay for it out of your own pocket...

Ah, why not. Here's a year's worth of $38/month (A$456) to tide you over.

Thanks for the info, and thank you for being so welcoming.

That sounds like a pretty neat system actually. No community is actually truly dead that way, any new content would be given a fair chance in /all/.