Back in 2014, Trilema burned ~4TB.
Per month.
Then in 2015, it went rather to 5.
Terabytes.
Also per month.
Then in 2016 it reached 7, and by 2018 I was serving over eleven. Terrabytes. That's over 12`094`627`905`536 bytes, for the precisians among us. Per month.
Then the pantsuits decided to abandon all hope their citadels of ineptitude may matter in the world, and as a result I've served a terrabyte today, and almost two yesterdayi, and so following.
To be sure, it's not all composed of the slack left behind by the regressing femstate, lots of people use Trilema in all sorts of ways. Nevertheless,
gif Image 956,059 0.7 % 751.14 GB 73.8 %
Which is to say, less than one in thirteen hundred use almost three quarters of my bandwidth to, specifically,
185.69.144.30 - - [25/Jan/2019:07:11:42 -0500] "GET /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cockworship-6.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 2095198 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; MYA-L11) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.80 Mobile Safari/537.36"
5.236.87.147 - - [25/Jan/2019:07:11:48 -0500] "GET /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cockworship-6.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 2095198 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36"
185.158.113.226 - - [25/Jan/2019:07:11:48 -0500] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 200 54 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)"
78.151.153.254 - - [25/Jan/2019:07:11:56 -0500] "GET /wp-content/uploads/2016/08/entirely-spurious-intromission.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 1014053 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; SM-G930F) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.99 Mobile Safari/537.36"
1.144.107.101 - - [25/Jan/2019:07:12:13 -0500] "GET /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cockworship-2.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 - "https://www.google.com.au/" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1"
92.97.95.147 - - [25/Jan/2019:07:13:09 -0500] "GET /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cockworship-10.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 2034953 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/71.0.3578.89 Mobile/15E148 Safari/605.1"
And so following, because totally, what's google for if not to repackage my fucking content into their pretense of "the world is" and "smartphones are useful" and the whole rest of the bla bla bla.
Yet, I'm not particularly inclined to sponsor idiots so they may continue doing whatever it is it occurs them to do. For which reason, and starting immediately,
Rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (?!\.php)(\.[a-z]{3}) [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !http://trilema\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://trilema.com/2019/trilema-images-no-longer-showing/ [R=301,L]
Which is to say, that if your referrer's not set to this here sheet of refined taste, good morals and even better behaviours -- you don't get to see any images.
To pre-empt any possible complaint in the vein of "but MP, I don't even have the notion of this 'referer' thing, what do you want from me" : I want from you to set the environment variable so named to the string "http://trilema.com". If what you say is true, and you don't use it for anything else, then you don't care. If it isn't true, then stop trying to pass the buck, because in the simplest of terms : if your browser ain't saying "trilema" my server ain't showing you images. That's the deal, and if you don't like it...
... feel free to write out your complaint below.
PS. Yes, it would be nice if instead of being redirected here, you were redirected to the article the image was "google'd" from. Talk to google about it, aite ?
———- Let's reason together : what's advertised as "megabit connection" (aka mpbs in ye olde seller parlance) barely counts as 125KB/s. There's a lot of seconds in a day, but if you count them all you only come to 86`400, which is to say less than 100k. The solution to the ratio 10244 (terrabyte) / 86400 (seconds in a day) still comes out to almost thirteen million, and million bytes not million bits. [↩]