Because there is a real problem that needs to be solved one way or another.
Anubis doesn't solve anything, bud.
Readit NewsRKFADU_UOFCCLEL commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
RKFADU_UOFCCLEL commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
There's plenty of DDoS if you're dealing with people petty enough.
The VPS I use will nuke your instance if you run a game server. Not due to resource usage, but because it attracts DDoS like nothing else. Ban a teen for being an asshole and expect your service to be down for a week. And there isn't really Cloudflare for independent game servers. There's Steam Networking but it requires the developer to support it and of course Steam.
Valve's GDC talk about DDoS mitigation for games: https://youtu.be/2CQ1sxPppV4
> And there isn't really Cloudflare for independent game servers
And yet game servers still work fine. Which answers this subthread's question ("how likely is it to get DDoSed if you don't have Cloudflare"), answer: not very likely, it happens once in a while at most.
RKFADU_UOFCCLEL commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
I would advise against this action. Just ride the crash.
If people knew how to play the 5 hour long game they wouldn't have been using Cloudflare in the first place.
RKFADU_UOFCCLEL commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
Anubis and/or Bunny are good alternatives/combination depending on your exact needs
Why do people on a technical website suggest this? It's literally the same snake oil as Cloudflare. Both have an endgame of total web DRM; they want to make sure users "aren't bots". Each time the DRM is cracked, they will increase its complexity of the "verifier". You will be running arbitrary code in your big 4 browser to ensure you're running a certified big 4 browser, with 10 trillion man hours of development, on an certified OS.
RKFADU_UOFCCLEL commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
DDOSing is absolutely so rampant that you need to be behind something.
> Gooo gooo gaa gaaa look at this basic cassus beli I swallowed!!!
And yet my website is still up today, and has not been down for years.
What the heck is this? It's hysterical to report cp immediately?
You can be a free speech 'extremist'(clearly a bit tongue-in-cheek) and still want to protect your site from bad actors. Not much free speech to be had when their violations get your site removed.
I agree slightly that the 'meat' in the article was lacking as far as what was actually happening with the FBI. Seems no party would give him an inch tho.
It is hysterical to spaz out upon seeing a cp posted on the internet where anyone from a pool of 7 billion people are allowed to post. It is hysterical to lose sleep over that. No "free speech extremist" bends over to fight cp because it would involve vetting each post individually, only letting people you know personally post to your site, etc. You are giving into the FBI's impossible request.
RKFADU_UOFCCLEL commented on Ruby on Rails Audit Complete ostif.org/ruby-on-rails-a... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I had no idea people could hack my forum by applying the system("wget hacker.lol") transformation to their profile image. Thanks for the find!
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RKFADU_UOFCCLEL commented on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/pentagrama
I would do it the other way round: use Windows in a virtual machine from Linux. If you are in Windows and have the urge to use Linux, do the proper switch once and for all. You will never look back. I haven't in almost 15 years.
Given what Windows has become and already discussed here on HN I would even hesitate to run it in a virtual machine.
Edit: more than 15 years.
That's how I do it. I don't see the draw for Windows as the main OS, especially with Windows 10+ being dumbed down beyond belief and having seconds of lag to do anything at all. Seems even from this thread that people just want the convenience of a gaming rig in the same box as their work (which is a security issue because games are full of remote code execution vulnerabilities).
RKFADU_UOFCCLEL commented on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/pentagrama
Every time I praise WSL on hn I pay the karma tax but I will die on this hill. WSL is more powerful than Linux because of how easy it is to run multiple OS on the same computer simultaneously. It's as powerful as Linux with some janky custom local docker wrappers for device support, local storage mapping, and network mapping. Except it's not janky at all. It's an absolute delight to use, out of the box, on a desktop or laptop, with no configuration required.
Edit: for clarity, by "multiple OS" I mean multiple Linux versions. Like if one project has a dependency on Ubuntu22 and another is easier with Ubuntu24. You don't have to stress "do I update my OS?"
For me it was slow, full of compatibility issues, and glitchy. Some simple packages wouldn't even install in the official Ubuntu WSL distro. To be honest I don't know what the use case for this is, other than to run some one-off Linux thing once in a while without having to use another box.