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

www.youtube.com

An intriguing video discussing Falcon 40B, another LLM that seems to perform really quite well, especially given its much smaller size than models like GPT 4.

uk.etail.market

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 :)

web.archive.org

Looks like Meta are trying to introduce a subscription for their VR headsets. Wonder if that'll go anywhere or not...

Hi all! In order to give people automated access to loads of game deals, I've created the CompuVerse Deals Bot! This bot will automatically post new deals as they come in from https://isthereanydeal.com! To try to keep the quality of the bot's posts at least moderately good, there are a few limits in place. The bot will only post deals which follow these rules: - Offer title is at least 30% off - Offer title has at least 75% positive reviews on Steam - Offer title is not a DLC The bot will automatically post the highest cut it has found in the title of the post, along with Steam review scores for the game. The main body of each post will consist of basic review information on the game, and then a table listing current best known prices in GBP, USD and EUR (other currencies can be added in future if this is something people are interested in!) I hope you find the bot useful. Please let me know any suggestions or improvements you may have regarding this bot :) Thanks, Cameron

Gaming cameron • 1 year ago • 100%

www.ubisoft.com

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](https://www.youtube.com/Ubisoft) > - [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/ubisoft)

> "The key takeaway is that it is possible to take data as early as the 31st week and predict preterm birth up to the 37th week," Arye Nehorai, PhD, professor of electrical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, told Fox News Digital.

9to5mac.com

A rather neat feature that should be present on all browsers by default I'd say!

arstechnica.com

Always thought ChatGPT's jokes were a bit stale! It's the same with riddles, the answer to 90% of them is "fire"!

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](/u/gamedealsbot)! ##### At present, this is pulling data from [yesthereisadeal.com](https://yesthereisadeal.com/) ##### I plan to add support for more deal sources in the near future!

Gaming cameron • 1 year ago • 97%

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/453 > This is the lowest price the collection has ever been! Well worth grabbing if you can :)

Gaming cameron • 1 year ago • 100%

www.youtube.com

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/309 > Why does this work?

Hi all, I'm very new to this fediverse thing! I've recently setup my own instance of Lemmy which I've called "[CompuVerse](https://compuverse.uk)". This seems to be going quite well, the instance is setup, I seem to be able to view content from other instances and even comment and such! However, I'm noticing a few oddities. I'm not sure if I'm just misunderstanding something about how the fediverse works, but I don't seem to be able to see my comments and posts from other instances. ~~For example:~~ ~~`lemmy.ml`: https://lemmy.ml/u/cameron@compuverse.uk Shows no content for my account~~ ~~`beehaw.org`: https://beehaw.org/u/cameron@compuverse.uk Shows comments, but no posts~~ ~~However, if I view other users' profiles from my own instance, I can see both their posts and comments.~~ ~~Is this normal or have I managed to mess something up with federation?~~ Scratch that, upon making this post I've realised what's happening. It would appear that I can't see any content that I posted to my own instance from other instances such as `lemmy.ml` and `beehaw.org`. Does anyone have any tips at all? Much appreciated, Cameron

I've recently been introduced to ntfy (pronounced Notify). This project seems like it could be fantastically useful to quickly and easily add notifications to selfhosted projects. Perhaps it could be used as part of an uptime monitoring system to automatically send phone notifications when an application goes down for example? Very interested to see what use cases I can find for it!