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Blocked by Sophos (at work) because “ParkedDomain”. I fucking love this timeline.

by fuzzy2 2y ago

jiggawatts 2y ago
I also love how it is developed using Vue completely unnecessarily, requiring nearly half a megabyte of JavaScript to show me 300 bytes of non-interactive dynamic content surrounded by entirely static text. It also reaches out to two tracking sites, including a server in China, because of course it does.
- Kiro 2y ago
  How is that relevant to the comment you're responding to? It's not like the maker added it to Sophos voluntarily.
  - jiggawatts 2y ago
    I'm replying more to the "I fucking love this timeline." part of the comment. Half the time I see something advertised here (or anywhere else for that matter) the code is more tracking than content by weight, nothing works, and the whole thing is shockingly slow. How did we get to "this timeline" that not only is this normal, but it's starting to feel weird even commenting about it? Should I just give up and accept loading spinners on static content? My recent grumpy old man moment is asynchronous loading of menu items one-at-a-time, something my PC from 1994 could do instantaneously. I've seen desktop applications show me fragments of a UI, slowly expanding with more and more items in random order as the fans of my 5 GHz CPU spin up to handle the enormous load of... a few hundred characters of text per second. The same speed as my first 300 baud modem, something so old and slow that I threw it the trash in 1989. There's a comment here[1] saying "nice interface". What's nice about it!? It's broken, slow, and tracks you! This is where we are in 2024: Shipping broken stuff and getting patted on the back for getting an MVP out "fast"... while users wait. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41168866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41168866
- Airyisland 2y ago
  It's Next-based actually. I just forked the open-source code and deployed it. What do you mean by saying "because of course it does"?
petecooper 2y ago
>ParkedDomain https://web.archive.org/web/20180615000000*/ip.network https://web.archive.org/web/20180615000000*/ip.network The domain had a former life (pre-2024) where it bounced to a domain broker sales page, which may well be the trigger. Aside: I worked at Sophos from '98 to '06, some of the best & worst years of my life.
jve 2y ago
We are using Microsoft Defender SmartScreen here at work and also stumble upon quite some domains that are blocked. iso20022js.com currently on front page for example is also blocked. Along with web.archive.org :(
- eddyg 2y ago
  Blocking new domains is a very common feature in endpoint protection software. It can help block access to algorithmically-generated C&C domains used by malware, for example.
- Airyisland 2y ago
  You are right. I bought the domain last year.

Blocked by Sophos (at work) because “ParkedDomain”. I fucking love this timeline.

by fuzzy2 2y ago

Blocked by Sophos (at work) because “ParkedDomain”. I fucking love this timeline.

I also love how it is developed using Vue completely unnecessarily, requiring nearly half a megabyte of JavaScript to show me 300 bytes of non-interactive dynamic content surrounded by entirely static text. It also reaches out to two tracking sites, including a server in China, because of course it does.

Kiro 2y ago
How is that relevant to the comment you're responding to? It's not like the maker added it to Sophos voluntarily.
- jiggawatts 2y ago
  I'm replying more to the "I fucking love this timeline." part of the comment. Half the time I see something advertised here (or anywhere else for that matter) the code is more tracking than content by weight, nothing works, and the whole thing is shockingly slow. How did we get to "this timeline" that not only is this normal, but it's starting to feel weird even commenting about it? Should I just give up and accept loading spinners on static content? My recent grumpy old man moment is asynchronous loading of menu items one-at-a-time, something my PC from 1994 could do instantaneously. I've seen desktop applications show me fragments of a UI, slowly expanding with more and more items in random order as the fans of my 5 GHz CPU spin up to handle the enormous load of... a few hundred characters of text per second. The same speed as my first 300 baud modem, something so old and slow that I threw it the trash in 1989. There's a comment here[1] saying "nice interface". What's nice about it!? It's broken, slow, and tracks you! This is where we are in 2024: Shipping broken stuff and getting patted on the back for getting an MVP out "fast"... while users wait. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41168866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41168866
Airyisland 2y ago
It's Next-based actually. I just forked the open-source code and deployed it. What do you mean by saying "because of course it does"?

petecooper 2y ago

>ParkedDomain https://web.archive.org/web/20180615000000*/ip.network https://web.archive.org/web/20180615000000*/ip.network The domain had a former life (pre-2024) where it bounced to a domain broker sales page, which may well be the trigger. Aside: I worked at Sophos from '98 to '06, some of the best & worst years of my life.

jve 2y ago

We are using Microsoft Defender SmartScreen here at work and also stumble upon quite some domains that are blocked. iso20022js.com currently on front page for example is also blocked. Along with web.archive.org :(

eddyg 2y ago
Blocking new domains is a very common feature in endpoint protection software. It can help block access to algorithmically-generated C&C domains used by malware, for example.
Airyisland 2y ago
You are right. I bought the domain last year.