Notices by Mythic Beasts (beasts@social.mythic-beasts.com)

It's our special offer for the last Friday in November. Today you can buy any of our internet services for the same price we charged yesterday, and the same price we will charge tomorrow. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/

We went to the #IPv6 council meeting in the UK. In a change from previous years there was a lot from networks which mostly run IPv6 with IPv4 now increasingly being a legacy compatibility option. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2024/11/26/ipv6-networking-in-the-uk/

Another large language model scraper blocked. This graph is from a site which runs a tool generating answers for people doing important research work. The AI scraper sent hundreds of thousands of lookup requests evading rate limits by using about a thousand IPs and pinned multiple webservers at 100% CPU (graph from one attached). This is a massive waste of electricity to train a hallucination machine.

@alyx we have lots that only have IPv6 address on the server itself, but use NAT64 to get out to IPv4 only instances, and a https proxy inbound so v4 only instances can federate with us. We salute your purism!

MastodonEngineering - @MastodonEngineering

>We just released important security patches for version 4.2..

That changed some of our priorities for the afternoon. We now have a lot of copies of mastodon4.2.6 running.

Always happy to manage more mastodons on behalf of people who are bored of applying updates. sales@mythic-beasts.com

Upgrading to 4.0.2 of mastodon significantly dropped memory consumption on our @Raspberry_Pi 4 running the instance. CPU seems slightly down too.