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and in a single moment, the value of software patents to companies is fully restored... the software license by itself is not enough to protect software innovation, a non-trivial i…

A reply of sorts, and a standard disclaimer that I work at Grafana Labs. > career-driven development we don't have this and promote and reward as frequently for "I've done solid op…

Use NextDNS ( https://nextdns.io ) on your mobile phone as a Private DNS provider, and switch as many apps as allow it to be web apps, i.e. https://m.uber.com works just fine, and …

I hated it so much I migrated to ProtonPass, deleted my data, and set my account to expire. Then Proton CEO made some statements I found offensive, so I re-activated my Bitwarden a…

not any more, now the thing about Arsenal is that it's all set pieces and over-reliance on corners. Saka isn't all that either, he'd be nothing within Odegaard. (this is convincing…

I don't agree with the law, there's no point in using emphasis to labour the point, the UK Govt advice on who it applies to is here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/onlin…

The law has ridiculous overreach, that's true. And we haven't seen what international enforcement of it looks like yet. But to deal with the facts as they are now, the law states t…

Beware if you have UK users, you should read the new law in the UK called the online safety act. Your site has young trans people, sexual content, and would also be a target for gr…

The article doesn't even touch "people enter their email incorrectly when registering an account". I've received magic links to my Gmail account that belong to other people, for ac…

It's been 2025 for 6 months already...

> 403 is generally a bad way to get crawlers to go away Hardly... the article links says that a 403 will cause Google to stop crawling and remove content... that's the desired outc…

Oh I did this with the Facebook one and redirected them to a 100MB file of garbage that is part of the Cloudflare speed test... they hit this so many times that it would've been 2P…

It's never that smooth. In fact 2M requests arrived on December 23rd from Claude alone for a single site. Average 25qps is definitely an issue, these are all long tail dynamic page…

Apparently yes. If a more specific UA hasn't been set, and the library doesn't force people to do so, then the library that has been the source of abusive behaviour is blocked. No …

At this point, no.

Nginx, it's nothing special it's just my load balancer. if ($http_user_agent ~* (list|of|case|insensitive|things|to|block)) {return 403;}

I have thought about writing such a thing... 1. A proxy that looks at HTTP Headers and TLS cipher choices 2. An allowlist that records which browsers send which headers and selects…

Their appetite cannot be quenched, and there is little to no value in giving them access to the content. I have data... 7d from a single platform with about 30 forums on this insta…

> Not sure why the reply buro9 gave is dead Oh I do... the link... HN must have a word based deny list

Yes you can https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/onli... A forum that isn't proactively monitored (approval before publishing) is in the "Multi-Risk service" cat…

I am the OP, and if you read the guidance published yesterday: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/onli... Then you will see that a forum that allows user gener…

> In addition to the cookie privacy pop-over when viewing that site I don't know where you're seeing that as the site does not have such things. The only cookies present are essent…

the real risk I see is that as it's written, and as Ofcom are communicating, there is now a digital version of a SWATing for disgruntled individuals. the liability is very high, an…

thank you for removing the deadname.

yup, and thank you for the kind words