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>>1-5-2024 >For the love of all that is holy, what is this date format. Most commonly used in the US. 'Cause we gotta show it like we say it . I think.
No, you have it confused with 1/5/2024. We don't use dashes with this order.
What is the issue they are trying to solve? It seems to be a static site. Bots should cause only a neglible amount of traffic per month. My guess would be less than $1. And aren't there free CDNs for static sites these days? I guess you can just push the whole frontent data (html+assets) into a public git repo, put it behind a github page with custom domain and call it a day?
> What is the issue they are trying to solve? Apparently, he self-hosts on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. I guess you need to block half the internet if your server has about the same performance as a decade-old smartphone. It's charming in a way, like someone who daily-drives a classic car. https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/self-hosters-nightmare...
"To worldofmathew on Hacker News,
While I do sincerely appreciate the fact that you have taken the time to post several cheapskatesguide articles to Hacker News, this may have caused them to designate you as a blog spammer and block your posts. In other words, they may think that you own this site and are posting your own articles. May I suggest that you contact a Hacker News moderator and set him straight before you post another cheapskatesguide article?"
>It means that more than one percent of the IPv4 real estate on the Internet (and probably much more) is occupied by people and organizations who are either clueless or just do not care how much the rest of us are paying to keep our websites on line There's a significant mental leap here. "I block these IP to conserve my resources, therefore they belong to clueless or malicious organisations". It's wrong in both dire…
>>1-5-2024 >For the love of all that is holy, what is this date format. Most commonly used in the US. 'Cause we gotta show it like we say it . I think.
See https://eforms.state.gov/Forms/ds5507.PDF for example, page two. Though again, it's not as common as slashes.
I imagine that if this article makes its way onto Hacker News, I will be criticized. Maybe they will call me naive or compare me to Don Quixote fighting windmills. Maybe they will call me stupid or paranoid for not using some centralized block list. Maybe they will object to how I characterize those who employ web-crawling robots. Ha. He is so wrong. We're going to criticize his nginx config and his use of PHP. I mea…
You should timeout IP for few days instead
>It means that more than one percent of the IPv4 real estate on the Internet (and probably much more) is occupied by people and organizations who are either clueless or just do not care how much the rest of us are paying to keep our websites on line There's a significant mental leap here. "I block these IP to conserve my resources, therefore they belong to clueless or malicious organisations". It's wrong in both dire…
seeing month-day-year is one of my biggest pet peeves, why not just use day/month/year or year/month/day in a logical order.
dd/mm/yyyy isn't objectively better IMO. It's what you're used to, making it easier for you to read. It's not what I'm used to, making it harder for me to read.
yyyy-mm-dd is the best format because it's sortable and unambiguous and standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
yyyy/mm/dd isn't standard or commonly used AFAIK, so best to avoid it.
mm-dd-yyyy also isn't standard or commonly used AFAIK, so best to avoid it.