Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

algernon ludd @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club

11/16/2025, 9:22:20 PM

Public

Another day, another person asserting confidently that determined crawlers will get through defenses, and I'm sitting here, calmly sipping my evening hot chocolate, watching iocaine having served over 50 million requests in the past 24 hours.

Sure, that's about the max my VPS can handle, but if I turned off zstd compression for garbage responses, it would be able to serve about twice as much, if not more. But I like to keep my bandwidth down, so ~650req/sec is what I'll top out at.

It is entirely possible to tell the bots to fuck off. It works, it scales well, it isn't even very hard.

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/users/algernon/statuses/01KA78R97T20NP4Q3M44ACMNKN on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)