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Why, what's the point in doing such nonsense? Unless it's someone with lots of money, contacts in the dark web, and some historic Barbara Streisand type chip on the shoulder.
This is why I’ve gotten into the habit of maintaining my own WWW archive of sites I find interesting. Probably have around 1 TiB now, and One Of These Days I’d like to set my network up so it can serve arbitrary sites directly from local archive to revive any site I want. I have a `wget-mirror` shell function invoking wget with all the trimmings that takes care of 99% of sites. I’ll edit the full command into this co…
Same. I've been scraping PDF'ed magazines, etc. and keeping them locally. In addition to feeding my byte-hoarding tendencies, I like the idea I could be off-grid in my van/RV somewhere and reading a "Popular Electronics" magazine from 1972 on my laptop. (Oh, never mind YouTube videos that I once added to playlists ... that later disappear leaving only holes in my playlists.)
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Doubt this is coordinated - more likely a singular (m/b)illionaire wanted a post/photo/video, or multiple of, deleted for good, perhaps for suppression of legal evidence, and this was one way of bringing some firepower to a… library. One of the internets biggest libraries too. Odd.
But a ddos doesn't remove the page...
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Same. I've been scraping PDF'ed magazines, etc. and keeping them locally. In addition to feeding my byte-hoarding tendencies, I like the idea I could be off-grid in my van/RV somewhere and reading a "Popular Electronics" magazine from 1972 on my laptop. (Oh, never mind YouTube videos that I once added to playlists ... that later disappear leaving only holes in my playlists.)
My problem with this approach is that the stuff I want to look at in 10 yrs time is never the stuff I think of saving right now. In the 2000s there were browser extensions I've forgotten the names of (shelf? slogger?) that would automatically save local copies of every webpage on page load. But I don't think they're around anymore and have no idea how you could achieve similar functionality with dynamic pages anyway.
It is probably easiest to save the render as a picture and then store text separately for searchability?
What are the ways to manage a DDoS attack, preferably using open source? Don't say Cloudflare because they're an extortionist firm.
What are the ways to manage a DDoS attack, preferably using open source? Don't say Cloudflare because they're an extortionist firm.
The only universal way IMHO, is to associate a small cost to every internet request. The cost has to be as small as possible, but it has to be there for million/billion/trillion requests to add up the cost and make it uneconomical to continue the attack past some point. It is the same problem with email spam. What's stopping someone from sending billions of spam mails? If we suppose that: a blockchain exists which is…
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My problem with this approach is that the stuff I want to look at in 10 yrs time is never the stuff I think of saving right now. In the 2000s there were browser extensions I've forgotten the names of (shelf? slogger?) that would automatically save local copies of every webpage on page load. But I don't think they're around anymore and have no idea how you could achieve similar functionality with dynamic pages anyway.
> But I don't think they're around anymore and have no idea how you could achieve similar functionality with dynamic pages anyway. It is probably easiest to save the render as a picture and then store text separately for searchability?
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Cloudflare's "protection" is basically a racket. e.g. https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-web...
While I think there might be valid arguments to support that claim, that blog post hardly qualifies. The author runs a gambling site and while the way Cloudflare handled the situation (according to the author) could certainly be improved, they clearly were affecting other users by "tainting" shared IPs.