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That site seems to block hotlinking from HN: here's a mirror https://archive.is/jjS21 https://archive.is/jjS21

by l1n 11y ago

cronjobber 11y ago
JWZ actually blocks links from HN, specifically. No love lost there, it seems.
striking 11y ago
Your link is blocked too. As long as you paste it into a new tab you're fine. I'm not going to bother looking up the specific tweet he said this in but jwz has "no time for HN"
- kuschku 11y ago
  Breaking the web in such a way is completely inacceptable. http://www.donotlink.com/hkjc http://www.donotlink.com/hkjc
  - striking 11y ago
    It's his website. By design, the Internet lets you do whatever you think is best, even if what you think is best is totally misguided. I actually almost agree, that perhaps HN should create some sort of gateway that decreases the bandwidth costs of content creators.
    - colanderman 11y ago
      I mean, I can walk around the street yelling "penis" at anyone wearing orange. Doesn't mean I'm not an asshole for doing so.
    - 15155 11y ago
      It's called CloudFlare (only a little tongue-in-cheek).
  - weland 11y ago
    It will be fun to see someone lecturing JWZ on what he can do and what he cannot do on the web.
    - kuschku 11y ago
      He can try to be an asshole, but no one – not even Sir Berners Lee – has the moral right to be an asshole just for the sake of it. Torvalds behaviour is justified, as he provides, despite the rough tone, constructive criticism. JWZ doesn’t even do that. (Also, sending people a plaintext page explaining the issue would cost less of his traffic, and be less problematic)
- l1n 11y ago
  Found it: "@sloverlord Hacker News is a steaming cesspool and I don't have time or desire to deal with their bandwidth demands, so I just block them." ~jwz https://twitter.com/jwz/status/665658171415859200 https://twitter.com/jwz/status/665658171415859200
colanderman 11y ago
That's not hotlinking, that's just linking. Hotlinking refers specifically to embedding content (e.g. an image or iframe) from another host. JWZ, despite being one of the main engineers at Netscape, does not seem to know what hotlinking means, and is (a) happy to break the web, and (b) happy to look like an asshole by making penises pop up on random people's computers because they didn't know "don't click a link to this random dude's site from HN". HN mods, any chance of disabling autolinking for JWZ sites?

That site seems to block hotlinking from HN: here's a mirror https://archive.is/jjS21 https://archive.is/jjS21

by l1n 11y ago

That site seems to block hotlinking from HN: here's a mirror https://archive.is/jjS21 https://archive.is/jjS21

cronjobber 11y ago

JWZ actually blocks links from HN, specifically. No love lost there, it seems.

striking 11y ago

Your link is blocked too. As long as you paste it into a new tab you're fine. I'm not going to bother looking up the specific tweet he said this in but jwz has "no time for HN"

kuschku 11y ago
Breaking the web in such a way is completely inacceptable. http://www.donotlink.com/hkjc http://www.donotlink.com/hkjc
- striking 11y ago
  It's his website. By design, the Internet lets you do whatever you think is best, even if what you think is best is totally misguided. I actually almost agree, that perhaps HN should create some sort of gateway that decreases the bandwidth costs of content creators.
  - colanderman 11y ago
    I mean, I can walk around the street yelling "penis" at anyone wearing orange. Doesn't mean I'm not an asshole for doing so.
  - 15155 11y ago
    It's called CloudFlare (only a little tongue-in-cheek).
- weland 11y ago
  It will be fun to see someone lecturing JWZ on what he can do and what he cannot do on the web.
  - kuschku 11y ago
    He can try to be an asshole, but no one – not even Sir Berners Lee – has the moral right to be an asshole just for the sake of it. Torvalds behaviour is justified, as he provides, despite the rough tone, constructive criticism. JWZ doesn’t even do that. (Also, sending people a plaintext page explaining the issue would cost less of his traffic, and be less problematic)
l1n 11y ago
Found it: "@sloverlord Hacker News is a steaming cesspool and I don't have time or desire to deal with their bandwidth demands, so I just block them." ~jwz https://twitter.com/jwz/status/665658171415859200 https://twitter.com/jwz/status/665658171415859200

colanderman 11y ago

That's not hotlinking, that's just linking. Hotlinking refers specifically to embedding content (e.g. an image or iframe) from another host. JWZ, despite being one of the main engineers at Netscape, does not seem to know what hotlinking means, and is (a) happy to break the web, and (b) happy to look like an asshole by making penises pop up on random people's computers because they didn't know "don't click a link to this random dude's site from HN". HN mods, any chance of disabling autolinking for JWZ sites?