I would love to see the success rate of getting the parents of the child’s friend to set up a matrix client for their child’s one friend that doesn’t use anything they do.

Help your child embrace not needing to be constantly in communication with her friends, to (gasp) use the phone … or accept and monitor the evil empires’ offerings but no matter what you do, don’t for one second think you’ll get a single family to set up a matrix client for “that one kid”.

Another example expanding on my previous comment.

This IP from Hong Kong hit my site over 5,000 times in a couple minutes. The first 12 page loads were legitimate URLs and got served. On their first exploit attempt, they were blocked and the remaining 4,98x page loads were no-effort 403s. This type of thing has made it possible for me to have a cheap public-facing site as I wouldn’t be able to afford an endless array of malicious IPs doing this day in and day out. Before I went this route, I would have to shut the site down during high impact periods of these visitors as they’d corrupt and crash the database.

As soon as an IP is determined to be malicious, subsequent pageloads result in a single query to match the IP and they get dumped to a 403 static error.

With the bots that hammer a site looking for the top 1,000 or so exploitable URLs or partake in speed scraping, this has worked wonders for my server load. I catch them in their 1st-5th page load and the rest just result in basically no effort on the part of the script.

What are these “ads” you speak of?

If I didn’t enjoy the cat & mouse of it, I’d definitely walk away from running a site. Just out of curiosity, I created an hourly graph today showing malicious bot, legitimate bot and human ratio graphs for one of my sites. The malicious hits make up around 80% hourly and human hits are usually well under 10%.

I would like to be the first to thank them for this move. It’s going to do wonderful things for the Fediverse.

I’ve used desktop Linux as my primary operating system since the early 90s. I currently use Mint.

No, you don’t need to make a switch if it does what you need.

As hosts continue to shift the burden of exploit protection onto the visitor, the automatic blocking of VPN exit nodes has exploded and for that reason, VPNs are increasingly often unwelcome. Each person will have to choose at which point an increase in their privacy is less valuable to them than what they get in a visit to a site that attempts to erode that.

There are a couple sites that I turn my VPN off for(like my bank) but for every other, when I see the “You’ve been blocked” error page, I just close the tab and move on.

If you’re more interested in the journey than you are a useful phone, this is a great prospect, otherwise I would simply suggest you buy a Fairphone.

They’ve named it “Star Wars, the Sequel”.

A Youtuber says? Well, we better take note of this attention-worthy event.

Thank the Gods it’s paid leave, otherwise he would have had to start whittling away at his hundreds of millions of dollars.

Am I experiencing this trouble because I am trying to avoid paying for VPNs

Yes. Paying customers as a general rule demand that the service they pay money for works while people who don’t keep trying to find another that does.

FWIW, I’ve used Mullvad for years and it’s never caused an issue, Win, Lin and Android.

Mobile linux is not ready to be an OS for a phone.

I disable power management on the apps I use often and never run into the issue. Perhaps that might help create a less frustrating experience for you.

The EFF put it plainly that relying only on the non-manipulative platforms is only a strategy if you don’t want anyone new to find you. They stated that they use platforms they don’t agree with because that’s where the eyes they want to influence are.

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I was lucky to find one woman that is willing to hang out with me for life. No fucking way I’d think I could trick a second one into not realizing I’m a strong 3.5 on a good day from a great distance and while not wearing their glasses.