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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 Hongkong 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.

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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.

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%.

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Thank you very much for the continued home online!

When I got the captain keen floppy for free for my 386.

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

Yes, because professional sports is a paragon of ethics aside the odd case like this.

/s

Thank you for the great home away from home!

The shop must have seen him coming from a mile away. All atari cartridges(including pacman) ranged between $10 and $15. You could buy a new Atari 2600 for $44 in 1984.

Woops 😁

Great job and thanks for the helpful and derailed post!