Seems relatively painless to chop those two instances off - chinese.lol has less than 200 users, and I can’t even find instance info for doesnotexist.club (coincidence? i think NOT).

I do personally wonder how difficult it is to spin up new instances though. How much effort would it be for them to create a new one and do it again?

I’m actually most concerned with the IP leaking of the fediverse chick posts - hopefully some progress has been made with the IP leaking in auto-loaded external media through DM’s

As enraging as this whole story is, I don’t think there’s any coming back from ‘you’re a war profiteer’

And I would hope those websites are extremely low-risk and not anywhere near essential infrastructure or data ;)

I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but unless you work as a security engineer or in another security-focused tech field, you really shouldn’t be exposing your homelab to the open internet anyway

Most people access their homelabs via VPN - i don’t see anything here that’s a problem for that use-case.

I absolutely adore this artist. I guess he played on-label in a eponymously named band called ‘Welles’ for a while probably 10 years ago, but it never really took off and had a distinctly different sound. Last I checked their most popular song on yt only had ~100k views, most of them significantly less.

That makes it so much more exciting that he’s getting so much traction now without a label, and while writing songs that so obviously come from a place of earnest feeling. I saw an interview with him a couple weeks ago where he said he had gone home after touring with his old band and thought he was gonna quit music altogether, but came back to it after his dad had a heart-attack. It’s really only been a year since then, writing and playing songs on tiktok/yt until eventually getting enough attention that he put together 2 albums and started selling out shows.

I’m just so hyped for the guy - he played a few shows in my neck of the woods but they sold out so damn fast I wasn’t able to see him play. On his new album I really like ‘Rocket Man’ and ‘War is a God’, but the whole thing is honestly so good. His other album ‘Helles Welles’ has all of the more pointed topical songs like ‘Fat’ and ‘Genocide Cake’, which are also bangers.

Him being un-signed makes me happy to have bought both of his albums, I can’t recommend them enough.