tardedmeme

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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
"Free Palestine, F Israel" being treated as a threat is consistent with how all other Palestine/Israel speech is treated. E.g. in the UK if you said that in public you'd be considered a terrorist sympathiser (which is cr
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
They pay something. You can get a few ten cents per gigabyte for a voluntary proxy right now. I've never tried it long enough to get a minimum payout, so could be a scam for all I know (or maybe the minimum payout is the scam). What
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
That's called an IP address. You pay your ISP $50+ every month to get one. Has it worked so far?
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
This is called rotating residential proxy service. You can buy it off grey market sites that are probably getting it from botnet operators. It costs about $2-$5 per GB.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
And blocking ipv6 addresses isn't unfair to people who have an ipv6 address?
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Because paying with MITM is far less visible than paying with money
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
There's also the Anubis idea where your PoW is persistent until your IP address or session cookie changes, so you get to skip PoW in exchange for making yourself identifiable, which means the PoW can then be ramped up to take a couple
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Yes
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
They're blocking Firefox quite often. Stripe does something that makes Firefox hang. I use Chrome for those sites and then go back to Firefox...
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Cloudflare will just tell them that 70% traffic drop is because 70% of their traffic was bots, and everything is working fine, and hey, don't you want to upgrade to a paid plan to block 50% of the remainder? Think about how many bots w
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
It's just one more facet of the enshittoscene, the era where actual product quality is completely irrelevant. Put it in the same bucket as websites that lag when you scroll, apps that refuse to show you video without a huge play/p
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Probably everyone on HN singing their praises for the past 10 years.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Right. Botnet operators love cloudflare because they make so much money renting out compromised machines to pass their tests.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
You repeatedly failed to describe any third option. Good day.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
How would you rugpull a GPL Redis?
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
You forgot the shareholders, who are not users but have less freedom under the GPL.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
I see you have taken the latter option: feel smug, ignore the real world, and fade your brand into irrelevance. Oh well, plenty more brands out there.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Indeed you can step down, but as one of the comments says: > Just because you're giving free soup to the homeless doesn't mean you can piss in it
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Oh he's legally allowed to do this, it's just that he's a dick for doing it. One of the issue comments says: > Just because you are giving free soup to the homeless, doesn't mean you can piss in it.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Sounds like "Literate Programming", where the code and comments are reversed: instead of everything being code except what's marked as a comment, everything is a comment except what's marked as code.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
They got the ultimate seed-spreading, since we farm them.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Well Iran is letting ships through if they trade in petro-non-dollars (mostly yuan) and pay a fee, and the American blockade also lets those through if they're not coming from Iran itself. At this point the cheapest oil is the oil boug
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Who would conduct that trial?
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Europe had sanctions to avoid the American sanctions on places that didn't have sanctions, they'd rather trade with America than with Iran, but they don't actually care themselves.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
In European cities less people drive.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
I suspect two reasons. First, it's not easy to make your own blog - what are you thinking of here - self hosted wordpress, which will surely get hacked? If you use a service like WPEngine, that's no better than using substack. S
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Yep. Without Europe, we'd have no idea which websites were trying to sell us out to the highest bidder.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
I wonder if cloudflare is wise enough to always skip captchas from IP addresses it detects are associated with that website's owners.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
Way more important than this act are the police raids. Someone used your SaaS to send phishing (see today's front page HN)? They'll just take all your servers away. Goodbye business. Unless they think the general public would riot
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
There's never been any rule that the best product wins. Trivial example if I make RAM chips and give them away for free I'll lose.

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