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Bob is short for Robert, too by the way. I make a point to mention that my cat’s full name is Robert. I enjoy the reactions: person either looks at me like I’m a moron for thinking this is something worth spending the energy to say out loud, or they really enjoy it. I digress.
Yeah, I did know that. However "Richard" and "Dick" are much more distant in some sense... I had no idea.
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No offence to the other members of haxx, but I suspect Daniel's site is the only one that gets enough traffic to be considered for filtering.
Somehow that seems worse. Don't apply automatic filters to sketchy, fly-by-night spam sites that pop up and disappear, but do apply purely automatic filters to sites with a significant enough amount of legitimate traffic? That seems to be exactly backwards of the way things should be done if it wasn't mostly security theater.
- Have to consider the domain is a string, not a hierarchy. Too many premier domains have had subdomains with spam, malware, etc., running on some random thing in their namespace, trying to draft on the domain rep.
- Legit traffic + comment forms + web links are a thing spam and adult "se.xx 2nite?" bots target. They seek out the ranked traffic to boost their clicks and good rep to boost their SERPs, so -- perhaps counterintuitive -- scoring traffic + rep as an indicator (to be combined with other indicators of course) is sensible.
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>I got in a literal fight with IT needing to justify the why in why I needed access to my own website. Legitimately asking, why do you need access to your private website on corporate resources during work? Access your private stuff on your BYOD.
I’m not looking to work with people who need me to justify the info I gather or the tools I use. The problem isn’t what I want to do it’s having an intermediary in the process who only introduces drag.
I 100% understand the frustration of working in a place where lawyers "introduce drag". Lawyer's job isn't to make your job harder/easier, but to protect the company from whatever. Sometimes whatever turns out to be the "well intended" employee. Part of the friction in these situations are very zealous people wanting to do things while they are so scoped in on their task that they are unawares of the larger consequences to the company no matter how well intentioned they may be. As I've become older, I can corrolate that friction with youth. That coefficient of friction becomes smaller with age/experience. It has nothing to do with levels of caring/apathy, but from experiencing the negative affect of "move fast, break things" and being willing to tap the breaks a little bit while changing altitude to see a bigger picture.
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I’m not looking to work with people who need me to justify the info I gather or the tools I use. The problem isn’t what I want to do it’s having an intermediary in the process who only introduces drag.
But if your tool is a non-licensed piece of software that then puts the company on the hook because you used it without people whose purview it is to know these things can cause problems. I 100% understand the frustration of working in a place where lawyers "introduce drag". Lawyer's job isn't to make your job harder/easier, but to protect the company from whatever. Sometimes whatever turns out to be the "well intend…
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I don't think that has anything to do with it, because of this: > It shows that this filter is for this specific host name only, not for the entire haxx.se domain.
No offence to the other members of haxx, but I suspect Daniel's site is the only one that gets enough traffic to be considered for filtering.
Maybe he can change it to daniel.not.haxx.se ?