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> We did all the tracking on the backend Just checking, you do know that still counts as tracking and may fall under GDPR rules? GDPR was never just about cookies.

Is this the kind of thing EKS Auto Mode helps with? (For a price, of course)

Unfortunately that has no team features, and last time I checked they were quite pushy about not adding any - which is totally fair, they know what product they want to make and ar…

whispers Stirling castle is better than Edinburgh castle

Hello fellow Scot! I missed this when it was launched and it's very interesting to see your rationale. If you ever want a chat some time get in touch, I'm working on https://opente…

Hey, sorry it was hacked. You mention rsync which can be fine. But there are tons of other solutions, many that will have snapshot features. I use borg backup, for instance. https:…

Almost never now, and I used to go to lots. In fact I've launched https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/ to try to promote virtual tech events that include community participation instead…

Bug on home page: "Ask TechPosts.eu: Is there an EU Cloudflare alternative? I'm interested in CDN, DDoS mitigation and basic web security." Links to https://techposts.eu/post/153 "…

2 projects around virtual tech events: Open Tech Calendar, listing virtual tech events that include community participation: https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/ A listings site for vir…

Hello, So I've gone to FOSDEM once in person before COVID started and a few times virtually since. They go to great efforts to provide good live streams, it's really appreciated. S…

Hello, I'm James based in Scotland. For 7 years I ran Open Tech Calendar listing mainly in-person tech events. After a pause I'm now relaunching Open Tech Calendar to list virtual …

It's not clear if you are suggesting accepting contributions to the SQLite file via PR from people (but accepting contributions is generally the point of why people put these on pr…

This seems to be about hosting an Sqlite database on a static website like GitHub Pages - this can be a great plan, there is also Datasette in a browser now: https://github.com/sim…

I'm not OP but I'll guess .... lock files with old versions of libs in. The latest version of a library may be v2 but if most users are locked to v1.267.34 you need all the old ver…

It's not just package manager who do this - a lot of smaller projects crowd source data in git repositories. Most of these don't reach the scale where the technical limitations bec…

Some of it is different, but the basics are still the same and still relevant. Just today I've been working with some of this. I took a Django app that's behind an Apache server an…

User agents not IPs, but: https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

I was at an event about open data and AI recently and they were going on about making your data "ready for AI". It seemed like this was a big elephant in the room - what's the poin…

> so it is better to find a way to cache your website's HTML so you're not bombarded Of course, scrapers should identify themselves and then respect robots.txt.

> I'm just surprised we haven't seem some app that can act like a wordpress admin page but generating a static output you can host for free or very cheap somewhere. https://news.yc…

> load blog posts from a db Can you explain a bit more about your requirement and how many blog posts you are talking about? I'm curious to hear more for my future work as I have a…

Only for SEO - they don't help at all with aggressive AI scraper bots.

Also to consider: bot traffic and SEO. Depending on which mechanism you use to construct your state URLs they will see them as different pages, so you may end up with a lot of extr…