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Cloudflare blocked me from accessing it. edit: wow, that was some unexpected downvotes

by soneca 3y ago

nickpeterson 3y ago
The unpredictability of the clouds strikes again!
- HPsquared 3y ago
  I guess the clouds... Flared up
yosito 3y ago
Same
zx8080 3y ago
Same here. A new network censorship? F#ck cloudflare.
bell-cot 3y ago
How about the Ars reprint of the story? https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/trying-to-make-sense-of-why-otis-exploded-en-route-to-acapulco-this-week/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/trying-to-make-sense...
- soneca 3y ago
  It works, thanks!
esperent 3y ago
Same here.
hedora 3y ago
It is also on archive sites. Can anyone recommend a good one-click firefox extension to open an archive copy of the current page?
- pmontra 3y ago
  Maybe this one https://github.com/dessant/web-archives https://github.com/dessant/web-archives I'm using it on my phone. It gave me this https://archive.ph/20231026233758/https://theeyewall.com/trying-to-make-sense-of-why-otis-exploded-en-route-to-acapulco-this-week/ https://archive.ph/20231026233758/https://theeyewall.com/try... with a few taps.
JCharante 3y ago
Same here. I guess they don’t like my IP.
dogecoinbase 3y ago
But great news, we're on HN, so maybe jgrahamc or eastdakota can show up and explain why it's totally normal and fine that their product prevents random people from reading about the causes of natural disasters.
midasuni 3y ago
There are two products that HN has irrational love for - live that would make the most hardened musk fan blush, cloudflare and tailscale
davedx 3y ago
It's just completely irrelevant to the article. Would you have posted a comment if your ISP was down?
- fortyseven 3y ago
  If my ISP was hosting the page, sure. The article is the thing. And if you can't read the article due to false positives around how the article is hosted, how in the hell is that irrelevant? "I got mine, screw you." is a disappointing lifestyle choice.
- soneca 3y ago
  For me it is completely relevant to the article because it make it impossible for me to read for no legitimate reason. Even if the site was down for everyone I would comment. Lots of people comment about “hug of death”, for example, and I find it very useful. I know it is not me and I can find an alternative. And since it’s not down for everyone, only a few, for a new, odd, technical reason, I find it even more relevant to comment about it. Just like it is useful when people comment when a site is not accessible from a certain country, like BBC sometimes or some YouTube video. I see these comments often on HN and I always find them useful. They also usually are among the top comments, so likely not downvoted. That said, I was premature in editing the comment to show my surprise in being downvoting. That, indeed, is against HN etiquete and also it was just some temporary state, since I got many more upvoted since then.
Vox_Leone 3y ago
I was blocked too. Posting for the records.

Cloudflare blocked me from accessing it. edit: wow, that was some unexpected downvotes

by soneca 3y ago

Cloudflare blocked me from accessing it. edit: wow, that was some unexpected downvotes

nickpeterson 3y ago

The unpredictability of the clouds strikes again!

HPsquared 3y ago
I guess the clouds... Flared up

yosito 3y ago

Same

zx8080 3y ago

Same here. A new network censorship? F#ck cloudflare.

bell-cot 3y ago

How about the Ars reprint of the story? https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/trying-to-make-sense-of-why-otis-exploded-en-route-to-acapulco-this-week/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/trying-to-make-sense...

soneca 3y ago
It works, thanks!

esperent 3y ago

Same here.

hedora 3y ago

It is also on archive sites. Can anyone recommend a good one-click firefox extension to open an archive copy of the current page?

pmontra 3y ago
Maybe this one https://github.com/dessant/web-archives https://github.com/dessant/web-archives I'm using it on my phone. It gave me this https://archive.ph/20231026233758/https://theeyewall.com/trying-to-make-sense-of-why-otis-exploded-en-route-to-acapulco-this-week/ https://archive.ph/20231026233758/https://theeyewall.com/try... with a few taps.

JCharante 3y ago

Same here. I guess they don’t like my IP.

dogecoinbase 3y ago

But great news, we're on HN, so maybe jgrahamc or eastdakota can show up and explain why it's totally normal and fine that their product prevents random people from reading about the causes of natural disasters.

midasuni 3y ago

There are two products that HN has irrational love for - live that would make the most hardened musk fan blush, cloudflare and tailscale

davedx 3y ago

It's just completely irrelevant to the article. Would you have posted a comment if your ISP was down?

fortyseven 3y ago
If my ISP was hosting the page, sure. The article is the thing. And if you can't read the article due to false positives around how the article is hosted, how in the hell is that irrelevant? "I got mine, screw you." is a disappointing lifestyle choice.
soneca 3y ago
For me it is completely relevant to the article because it make it impossible for me to read for no legitimate reason. Even if the site was down for everyone I would comment. Lots of people comment about “hug of death”, for example, and I find it very useful. I know it is not me and I can find an alternative. And since it’s not down for everyone, only a few, for a new, odd, technical reason, I find it even more relevant to comment about it. Just like it is useful when people comment when a site is not accessible from a certain country, like BBC sometimes or some YouTube video. I see these comments often on HN and I always find them useful. They also usually are among the top comments, so likely not downvoted. That said, I was premature in editing the comment to show my surprise in being downvoting. That, indeed, is against HN etiquete and also it was just some temporary state, since I got many more upvoted since then.

Vox_Leone 3y ago

I was blocked too. Posting for the records.