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Ah, I had a similar idea. There were too many bots or vulnerability scanners hitting /wp-admin.php on my blog. It was flooding my access logs with 404s because I don't rock wordpress. Irksome stuff. So I threw up a little 'surprise' for the ahem penetration testers ahem , if you feel brave: https://www.thran.uk/wp-login.php
> This made me angrier than it should have - not because Sqword is a cash cow - we don't run ads on the site and don't make money from it, it's just for fun, but because it was a passion project with friends, something pure and intentionally free to play WITHOUT ads. If the site is for fun and doesn't make money, then how is what these aggregators are doing considered "theft"? Theft of credit for making the app, I gu…
Morally, landlording is theft.
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In a lot of jurisdictions, he does, especially if you did that knowing that he was watching.
Do you have a link to such a case? Genuinely asking because I want to know how the lawyers argue this in court without bursting into giggles from embarrassment.
I run three word games, this stuff happens for all of them. It sucks but I would never do what they did, it's abusive to the people who just googled your game and ended up on the wrong site. I've had teachers and students reach out to me to say they play my game in class every day together. And parents who play with their kids every day, and adult who text their results to each other every day. It sucks if they end u…
agreed - it for sure would have been easier/cleaner/safer to just show a message that said "please play the official game on whatever.com"
It’s really pathetic that Google is happy to profit off of these theft sites. They will never fix their search results because they are the ones selling the ads on behalf of the scammers. Break up the monopoly.
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In college my friend came over for a LAN party and when he went to the bathroom I quietly set his background to Goatse… I got quite the chuckle at 3am when he went to shut down his computer after a long night of gaming. Ah to be young again.
> after a long night of gaming. Wasn’t it more like 3 hours to setup and get the network functioning, and hour of gaming?
Or goto a hosted one
Your website has the worst permalinks ever.
> This blog is now STATELESS. The entire post is contained in the URL that you are visiting now. All my "blog" is now is a hard-coded main page that contains links to posts I claim authorship of. Of course the entire post is contained in each of these links. https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F3xV227cRgx911cQ...
I am absolutely not a lawyer, but I wouldn't do something like this for fear of falling afoul of anti-obscenity laws. For instance, the UK has a cyberflashing law which allots a two year custodial sentence for sending a graphic image (by any means) with intent to cause distress.
Author is not the distributor of the image.
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You feel fine, but you don’t know what effect it can have on others. This is a selection bias. By definition, all the survivors of the most atrocious things can say "I went through XYZ and I’m still alive". That doesn’t make this XYZ something you would recommend to anyone.
Presuming every conceivable avenue for surprise will lead to trauma, what's left for anyone to enjoy?