Post #3020015
2026-05-26 21:21 UTC
Noticed www.fromoldbooks was going a little slowly; lots of HTTP requests for images (mostly under /Wallpaperify) with fake user agents and dubious IPs. Banned the most common IP address (/24) and required a referer header for /Wallpaperify and system seems better behaved.
AI bots? There’s already a robots.txt entry.
/Wallpaperify lets you go to any image on https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ and recolour it, do light image edits, from the Colour tab. Maybe i should get rid of it.
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@jamesh@aus.social 2026-05-26 23:23
@barefootliam@floss.social could you do that kind of thing client side? You can access the pixel data of images from JavaScript now, and draw custom pixel data to a canvas element. The browser will let the user right click save the canvas contents, or you can ask for a PNG of the canvas contents. That would remove all the server side image editing overhead of the website feature.