A command-line and offline-first smolnet browser/feed reader for Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and Web by Ploum.

The goal of Offpunk is to be able to synchronise your content once (a day, a week, a month) and then browse/organise it while staying disconnected.

Yeah the rate-limit approach makes sense! I've been using Nginx's req-limit (http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html) and fail2ban to do so. Importantly it accounts for the "burstiness" of a lot of HTTP traffic and allows you to set thresholds yourself. Can recommend! So you built it in as part of the forum software @cblgh?

The ngx_http_limit_req_module module (0.7.21) is used to limit the request processing rate per a defined key, in particular, the processing rate of requests coming from a single IP address. The limitation is done using the “leaky bucket” method.

We are humans and might as well get used to it. So far, remotely done power and glory—as via government, big business, formal education, church—has succeeded to the point where gross profits obscure actual loss. In response to this dilemma and to these losses a realm of intimate, community power is developing—power of communities to conduct their own education, find their own inspiration, shape their own environment, and share their knowledge with others. Practices that aid this process are sought and promoted by the DAMAGED EARTH CATALOG.

The script looks through the page for any images with the class "low", and if found, reveals a button on the page and attaches the image swapping function to it. The function swaps out the source, and doubles the width/height.

The half size low-res image does two things: it greatly reduces the file size, and shows the pixels better (when enlarged by CSS). By using "image-rendering: crisp-edges;" in the CSS, the enlarged pixels are kept sharp.