Hi, I run the Lemmy instance over at https://compuverse.uk I seem to be getting spammed with literally thousands of incoming activity requests (primarily coming in from lemmy.world and lemmy.ml). (I measured about 1 new request ever 0.01 -> 0.02 seconds)

The error message in the Lemmy logs is very unhelpful, giving 0 detail about the actual error itself.

The UUIDs in the activities seem to be all unique, rather than duplicates. Does anybody have any idea what's going on and why there is such a large torrent of requests coming in?

This was so bad it essentially caused a DoS attack on my instance, and brought it down. I have had to move the PostgreSQL server onto a more powerful machine in order to keep up with the request rate!

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated :)

Thanks,

Cameron

eTail.market currently have both of the recent Spider-Man games currently on offer, according to IsThereAnyDeal, these are the lowest prices currently available for the games.

Could be a good time to grab them if you haven't already :)

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/3922

I know many people don't like Ubisoft, but for those of you who do enjoy their games (including myself), they have an event going on here today at:

• 10:00 (AM) PT (West Coast United States)
• 13:00 / 1:00 PM ET (East Coast United States)
• 17:00 / 5:00 PM UTC (GMT +0)
• 18:00 / 6:00 PM BST (Most of the United Kingdom)
• 19:00 / 7:00 PM CET (Most of West Europe)
• 2:00 (AM) JST (Japan)
• 3:00 (AM) AEST (Oceania)

You will be able to watch the event on:

• YouTube
• Twitch

For new subscribers to this community, I plan to write a bot which will automatically find and post deals (likely using the fantastic resource that is https://isthereanydeal.com!)

So hopefully we'll soon have awesome deals being posted here automatically :D

EDIT: The bot is live: /u/gamedealsbot!

At present, this is pulling data from yesthereisadeal.com

I plan to add support for more deal sources in the near future!

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/453

This is the lowest price the collection has ever been! Well worth grabbing if you can :)

Hi all,

I'm Cameron and I'm the current administrator of this site.

As the TLD implies, I, and thus this site are UK based. But users of all nationalities are welcome.

I'm a long-time fan of technology, being enthralled by it since I was about 5, learning to program when I turned 10.

I'm relatively young (only 23 as of the writing of this post) but I love all things tech, and I have a fascination about retro tech.

I thoroughly enjoy learning about tech that's sometimes over twice as old as me, and frequently watch channels such as

• LGR
• TechMoan
• MichaelMJD

I'm always on the lookout for new people to watch, so please let me know any of your suggestions!

I absolutely love video games, which I primarily play on PC, but I love Console gaming also, my first console being a PS2 (but mostly playing PS1 games on it). I love learning about and looking at games that are well before my time, so if you have any suggestions for older titles, they're also very much welcome!

As my day-job, I'm a software developer and I very much enjoy programming. I enjoy writing utilities to make my life easier, and I love learning new programming languages and frameworks. Currently, I'm trying to learn Rust!

Please feel free to comment on this post, or send me a DM if you ever want to chat about anything, always happy to talk (so long as I'm awake that is haha)

I look forward to seeing you all around!

• Cameron

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cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/309

Why does this work?