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- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 1 week ago:
There’s a special place in hell for those Republicans. It’s always the Pedo-Conservatives who want that.
I’ll compile my own linux kernel before I install OS level age verification.
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 1 week ago:
The only answer is regulation. We need laws that say, if you own a device, you can do anything you want to it, including wipe it, hack it, resell it, etc.
If they want to control your device, or lease it to you provided you pay a monthly fee, etc, they need to say “Lease”, “Rent” or similar, not buy.
And they shouldn’t be able to void your warranty for it - voids should be limited to the parts of the device you mess with. Like, if you flash your phone, they should be able to say, we can’t give you support, including how to re-install the original OS…but if your battery fails and it shocks you, they should have to replace the battery under a warranty.
We also need laws that say, if you pay for a device, that device itself, can’t have ads. So like, when talking about Android TV boxes, they can put recommendations on the homepage, but not ads, and those recommendations can’t be paid. Now, if you open youtube, they can make you watch ads.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 3 weeks ago:
Next up, torches and pitchforks will ve sold out. And AI won’t exist.
- Comment on AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds 5 weeks ago:
Burn it all down. Lock the CEOs in before you do.
- Comment on HP has laptop subscriptions now 5 weeks ago:
I can’t wait for the the renewal where the price doubles, the speed is limited to protect the battery, the privacy policy changes and they share your browsing data in real time, sell your fingerprints and facial recognition data and give you kne day to renew at the higher price or cancel without penalty like those cocksuckers at Adobe do.
The exec behind that needs to be homeless
- Comment on OpenAI start showing ads in ChatGPT 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. Maybe AI will help us return to darwinism.
- Comment on OpenAI start showing ads in ChatGPT 5 weeks ago:
This is what I’m hoping for. That way, when the dumbest person we know copies content from ChatGPT, we’ll see the ads too and know they’re a dumbass!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Two things to consider - check out Pressable or another dedicated WP Host. If you’re over the price for shared hosting, they’re competitive with Dedicated/VPS + addon backup solutions. They have a ton of caching built in, plus hourly backups. But it’s not for everyone.
One thing with the CDN considerations - where’s your audience? Local like in or around one city? Or local as in one country. The wider the reach, the more a CDN is beneficial. It doesn’t sound like it would help a lot. But it can also offload storage and the load of serving those requests.
To add what others said - Caching. You could do it on site and add Cloudflare on top of it. But you’ll probably want to add a few custom rules to cloudflare like Geo-restriction + no caching on /wp-admin/. Cloudflare also has anti-bot tech.
Beyond that, I’ve been waging a war on bots for a number of reasons. One of the easiest ways to block them is to block ASNs if you use Cloudflare. If AI or bot traffic is a problem, read on. If not, don’t worry about any of this.
If you want to block IP ranges yourself in Apache/nginx, your firewall, or your VPS provider’s firewall, start with looking up IPs in Amazon and Microsoft’s IPs (Like as listed here: https://ipinfo.io/AS16509) and start with the largest ranges.
With one line you can block 4.1M IPs from Amazon: 3.0.0.0/10 - start with these and go down to /16 and in a few hours you’ll kill access to tens of millions of bots.
You can also block by user agents.
I’m happy to share some Apache Rules/files if it would be helpful.
My theory on blocking is simple: I try to block as much as possible as far from the application layer at possible. It costs the most, in computational resources you pay for, to add a firewall inside of WordPress, like Wordfence. It also protects you the least. Blocking at Cloudflare and the VPS’s providers firewalls would be most efficient, followed by the firewall on the VPS, followed by an Apache/Nginx firewall, and then your application layer - WordPress. If you’re problems are mostly bot traffic, you want block as much bad traffic as possible without false positives.
- Comment on Alternative to github pages? 6 months ago:
Digital Ocean's app platform offers a toer tier to deploy static sites from Github and a few other places.