Going where BeOS NetPositive hasn't gone before: NetPositive+

(author) Interesting. That may have been what I ran into. carl itself was unaffected, just proxying through it.

It's probably part of about detection system which cf is usually trying to prevent for their customers. It'd be a relatively easy to detect metric to add to a score for that kind of thing. A bot using a browser use agent string but the wrong tls settings is probably very common.

Cloudflare does not care about MITM enterprise proxy nor mass surveillance, so there should be wiggle room to get it to work.

There is Lunduke journal substack but nothing like hacker news.

lobste.rs has computing only related content (no business - world news) and has a fair amount of retro computing posts

Reddit's Retrobattlestations, and at Usenet:

comp.infosystems.gopher

comp.infosystems.gemini

alt.folklore.computers

comp.misc (sometimes)

comp.os.cpm

comp.os.misc (from time to time)

Sometimes I wonder whether tagging support for HN articles wouldn’t be useful. Members could assign arbitrary publicly visible tags to articles, and upvote/downvote/flag those tags. Everyone could filter by tags and maybe see a vote count for each tag. Of course, that would be one more thing to moderate.

https://www.vogons.org/ For the more mainstream retro machines and hardware.

https://forum.vcfed.org/ For the rarer esoteric stuff (but still loads of old Macs, DOS machines, Amigas and 8-bit stuff)

There loads of others, often machine specific, but these 2 are a good place to start.

Access has been somewhat reluctant to make BeOS-related material available in the past. For example, they did provide access to the BeOS API documentation (called the Be Book) to the Haiku project, but only under a restrictive no-derivatives license (see [1]). This has caused some pain the past, as extra care must be taken that Haiku's API documentation, the Haiku Book [2], is not a derivative work, so everything had to be rewritten from scratch, even documentation for parts of the API that are largely unchanged.

[1] https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/LegalNotice.html

[2] https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/api/index.html

It seems like a very odd strategy since for real attackers it's absolutely trivial to pretend to be some random Internet Explorer. However I suppose it may be part of some kind of Bayesian / machine learning black box at Cloudflare.