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> blog.adafruit.com Your browser is out of date. Update your browser to view this site properly. Click here for more information if you care about right to rep

> blog.adafruit.com Your browser is out of date. Update your browser to view this site properly. Click here for more information if you care about right to repair and the ability of regular people to make a living and choose their own destiny(i.e. live independently of a mega-corp), this type of error message should bother you. HTML is a mature tech. There is no reason for this type of error

cucumber3732842 8mo ago
Webdev new hotness monkey poo flinging software development is not these people's schtick. Hardware is. God forbid whatever library they use to make their website "easy" and detract less labor from their endeavors not have default settings in perfect accordance with their politics. I bet they don't compile their OS from source either.
- pclmulqdq 8mo ago
  The "new hotness" in webdev is what causes these errors. Plain old HTML pretty much never has these issues. Clearly they are into the new hotness in webdev.
  - cucumber3732842 8mo ago
    Exactly. Unless they want to make a project out of their website they're at the mercy of the packages and frameworks they depend upon, who are run by people who generally like webdev stuff and have no qualms about the new hotness.
theyregr8 8mo ago
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- rafaelmn 8mo ago
  Oh look - HN fortune cookies
  - theyregr8 8mo ago
    Yeah you can't predict anything with 100% certainty either By repeating propaganda at you though desperate financiers can hack your brains innate prediction loop to convince you you're knocking on the door of infamy. Look, I get you. You're trying to fill the hole created when father never came back with cigarettes. Mom always blamed you for his leaving. But little Warboy screaming "Witness me make line go up !" everyone else is a self selecting meat suit too working unintentionally (simply distracted by their own lives needs they never encounter your pitch) and in some instances intentionally (fomenting economic and political instability) against you to support themselves.
  - cindyllm 8mo ago
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- cindyllm 8mo ago
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justinsaccount 8mo ago
Did you consider clicking the "Click here for more information" to learn what the reason was?
micromacrofoot 8mo ago
If you're using a browser more than a year old it's also much more likely you're vulnerable to zero-day exploits. Browser tech is a lot different than it was 10 years ago.
- jeroenhd 8mo ago
  That error message almost always means someone is using an extremely obscure browser that doesn't pass Cloudflare's not-a-bot-check. Either the browser has Javascript disabled (Tor), or its Javascript engine is very outdated/broken (a couple of old Firefox forks) or doesn't support Javascript at all. It doesn't necessarily mean the browser is vulnerable to anything, just that it's not a browser normal websites would expect to encounter so the bot check fails.
ptorrone 8mo ago
(posting this in both comments about this) i am the author of the article. the adafruit blog is not trying to block you my dude(s). we are under constant automated scraping and ddos, largely from ai crawlers, and we use cloudflare to keep the site online at all. the nature of of these things will cause false positives depending on browser, extensions, network, or referrer. the site publishs full-text rss feeds with no blockers here, no ads: https://blog.adafruit.com/rss https://blog.adafruit.com/rss the site respects do not track, privacy badger, and similar tools. the site will probably never pass the purity tests for everyone, the goal is to stay independent, publishing, without selling readers or folding into a mega-platform. we're open source and vc free, chill out about us, ok? if you still can’t get an article and want it in html, markdown, text, or pdf, email me and i’ll send it directly, i will read it on the phone to you, i am not kidding. we’re trying, and we’ll keep trying. you gotta meet somewhere.
- metadat 8mo ago
  What's your email address?
  - lobo_tuerto 8mo ago
    Just get the damn RSS
- ssl-3 8mo ago
  When companies that earn their money by selling things deliberately make their website hard to access (especially for scrapers -- of any sort), then they're making a choice to abandon their customers. It seems ruthlessly disappointing to consider, but maybe Adafruit isn't cut out for this whole Internet thing.
  - ptorrone 8mo ago
    (posting this in both comments about this) i am the author of the article. the adafruit blog is not trying to block you my dude(s). we are under constant automated scraping and ddos, largely from ai crawlers, and we use cloudflare to keep the site online at all. the nature of of these things will cause false positives depending on browser, extensions, network, or referrer. the site publishs full-text rss feeds with no blockers here, no ads: https://blog.adafruit.com/rss https://blog.adafruit.com/rss the site respects do not track, privacy badger, and similar tools. the site will probably never pass the purity tests for everyone, the goal is to stay independent, publishing, without selling readers or folding into a mega-platform. we're open source and vc free, chill out about us, ok? if you still can’t get an article and want it in html, markdown, text, or pdf, email me and i’ll send it directly, i will read it on the phone to you, i am not kidding. we’re trying, and we’ll keep trying. you gotta meet somewhere.
theyregr8 8mo ago
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cucumber3732842 8mo ago

Webdev new hotness monkey poo flinging software development is not these people's schtick. Hardware is. God forbid whatever library they use to make their website "easy" and detract less labor from their endeavors not have default settings in perfect accordance with their politics. I bet they don't compile their OS from source either.

pclmulqdq 8mo ago
The "new hotness" in webdev is what causes these errors. Plain old HTML pretty much never has these issues. Clearly they are into the new hotness in webdev.
- cucumber3732842 8mo ago
  Exactly. Unless they want to make a project out of their website they're at the mercy of the packages and frameworks they depend upon, who are run by people who generally like webdev stuff and have no qualms about the new hotness.

theyregr8 8mo ago

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rafaelmn 8mo ago
Oh look - HN fortune cookies
- theyregr8 8mo ago
  Yeah you can't predict anything with 100% certainty either By repeating propaganda at you though desperate financiers can hack your brains innate prediction loop to convince you you're knocking on the door of infamy. Look, I get you. You're trying to fill the hole created when father never came back with cigarettes. Mom always blamed you for his leaving. But little Warboy screaming "Witness me make line go up !" everyone else is a self selecting meat suit too working unintentionally (simply distracted by their own lives needs they never encounter your pitch) and in some instances intentionally (fomenting economic and political instability) against you to support themselves.
- cindyllm 8mo ago
  [dead]
cindyllm 8mo ago
[dead]

justinsaccount 8mo ago

Did you consider clicking the "Click here for more information" to learn what the reason was?

micromacrofoot 8mo ago

If you're using a browser more than a year old it's also much more likely you're vulnerable to zero-day exploits. Browser tech is a lot different than it was 10 years ago.

jeroenhd 8mo ago
That error message almost always means someone is using an extremely obscure browser that doesn't pass Cloudflare's not-a-bot-check. Either the browser has Javascript disabled (Tor), or its Javascript engine is very outdated/broken (a couple of old Firefox forks) or doesn't support Javascript at all. It doesn't necessarily mean the browser is vulnerable to anything, just that it's not a browser normal websites would expect to encounter so the bot check fails.

ptorrone 8mo ago

(posting this in both comments about this) i am the author of the article. the adafruit blog is not trying to block you my dude(s). we are under constant automated scraping and ddos, largely from ai crawlers, and we use cloudflare to keep the site online at all. the nature of of these things will cause false positives depending on browser, extensions, network, or referrer. the site publishs full-text rss feeds with no blockers here, no ads: https://blog.adafruit.com/rss https://blog.adafruit.com/rss the site respects do not track, privacy badger, and similar tools. the site will probably never pass the purity tests for everyone, the goal is to stay independent, publishing, without selling readers or folding into a mega-platform. we're open source and vc free, chill out about us, ok? if you still can’t get an article and want it in html, markdown, text, or pdf, email me and i’ll send it directly, i will read it on the phone to you, i am not kidding. we’re trying, and we’ll keep trying. you gotta meet somewhere.

metadat 8mo ago
What's your email address?
- lobo_tuerto 8mo ago
  Just get the damn RSS
ssl-3 8mo ago
When companies that earn their money by selling things deliberately make their website hard to access (especially for scrapers -- of any sort), then they're making a choice to abandon their customers. It seems ruthlessly disappointing to consider, but maybe Adafruit isn't cut out for this whole Internet thing.
- ptorrone 8mo ago
  (posting this in both comments about this) i am the author of the article. the adafruit blog is not trying to block you my dude(s). we are under constant automated scraping and ddos, largely from ai crawlers, and we use cloudflare to keep the site online at all. the nature of of these things will cause false positives depending on browser, extensions, network, or referrer. the site publishs full-text rss feeds with no blockers here, no ads: https://blog.adafruit.com/rss https://blog.adafruit.com/rss the site respects do not track, privacy badger, and similar tools. the site will probably never pass the purity tests for everyone, the goal is to stay independent, publishing, without selling readers or folding into a mega-platform. we're open source and vc free, chill out about us, ok? if you still can’t get an article and want it in html, markdown, text, or pdf, email me and i’ll send it directly, i will read it on the phone to you, i am not kidding. we’re trying, and we’ll keep trying. you gotta meet somewhere.

theyregr8 8mo ago

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