buro9

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by buro9 7mo ago
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 implementation can now be (reasonably) trivially re-implement
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by buro9 10mo ago
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 operations" as we do for "I'v
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by buro9 2y ago
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 use Firefox on mobile and enable `abou
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by buro9 2y ago
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 account, migrated back, and am now learning to love the chang
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by buro9 2y ago
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, and I know about as much as the IT Crowd di
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by buro9 2y ago
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/online-safety-act... and fee
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by buro9 2y ago
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 that it applies if you have UK users, and that the
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by buro9 2y ago
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 grooming from chasers. The risks, for you, are very high.
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by buro9 2y ago
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 accounts that have ordered flight tickets,
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by buro9 2y ago
It's been 2025 for 6 months already...
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by buro9 2y ago
> 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 outcome. I'm not trying to rate limit, I'm tel
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by buro9 2y ago
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 2PB sent in a matter of hours. I contacted the network te
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by buro9 2y ago
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 pages.
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by buro9 2y ago
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 loss to me.
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by buro9 2y ago
At this point, no.
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by buro9 2y ago
Nginx, it's nothing special it's just my load balancer. if ($http_user_agent ~* (list|of|case|insensitive|things|to|block)) {return 403;}
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by buro9 2y ago
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 which ciphers 3. A dynamic loading of the allowlist into th
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by buro9 2y ago
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 instance. 4.8M hits from Claude 390k from Amazon 261k from Data F
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by buro9 2y ago
> Not sure why the reply buro9 gave is dead Oh I do... the link... HN must have a word based deny list
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by buro9 2y ago
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" category (see pa
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by buro9 2y ago
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 generated content, and isn't
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by buro9 2y ago
> 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 essential and so nothing further was needed. The site
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by buro9 2y ago
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, and whilst I would perceive the risk to be low if it were
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by buro9 2y ago
thank you for removing the deadname.
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by buro9 2y ago
yup, and thank you for the kind words
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Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)(lfgss.com)
798 points by buro9 2y ago|545 comments
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by buro9 2y ago
It's a beautiful pump, but feels like only part of what an espresso machine is. What heats the water? What provides temperature control? How would I produce steam? It is so single purpose that it does not feel useful by itself, it feel
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by buro9 2y ago
I agree on not using iOS, because Firefox + Adblock + NoScript is incredible on Android. but... Android sucks because the default permissions and business model on Android all veer towards advertising, and this is heavy on network and bandw
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by buro9 2y ago
I've been doing this too, every time a renew comes around I shift it to Namecheap.
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by buro9 2y ago
TIL: Americans really like firing guns, and videoing their friends firing guns.

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