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Friendly reminder: don't embed images from other people's websites, especially if you're looking to get on HN/Slashdot/reddit/whatever. First, it's rude. The o
by jsaxton86 12y ago
Friendly reminder: don't embed images from other people's websites, especially if you're looking to get on HN/Slashdot/reddit/whatever.
First, it's rude. The owner of the second website has to deal with the burden of hosting traffic on your site and gets nothing in return. In this case, the blog kept downloading an image from siliconpr0n.org, effectively DoSing the website and taking it offline. Horrible. Hopefully tomorrow everything is back to normal and the owner of siliconpr0n.org isn't stuck with a massive bill from his host.
Second, there's no guarantee the image will stay online. Maybe the directory structure on the site will get reorganized or something. Maybe the website will go offline for good, only to get picked up by a domain squatter. Maybe the owner of the website will decide to change the direct-linked image to something else you weren't expecting. You have no idea.
- azonenberg 12y agoYou're assuming I'm not affiliated with siliconpr0n. I'm actually one of the main contributors to the site and took a lot of the photos on it, just not that particular one. John (my friend who actually admins the server) is fully aware of the situation and just raised the resource limits to counter the DoS. If either of us uses an image somewhere that we expect to stay online for a while, we make a point of leaving it in place when reorganizing directory structures etc.