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The open secret: the CAPTCHA wasn’t actually being checked against Google’s servers; any answer was accepted as correct – until yesterday, when someone armed with this knowledge launched an AI crawler. Now it’s being checked, so you’ll have to solve it.

There are much more tech photos in local news media:

https://rus.delfi.lv/57863/criminal/120091647/foto-video-v-h...

It's likely that the cloud server changed ownership, and the old IP address remains somewhere in the DNS records. Similar cases with different websites are probably numerous.

That's one of the main reasons why I use NixOS (for Windows non-FOSS apps too): the apps have no permissions to self-upgrade, only root can do that.

Mobile is more difficult, the easiest way: buy a Huawei without Google services

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> Github ... account called “volth” ... contributed ... to NixOS

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Volth maintained NixOS Perl subsystem:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/master?after=1c72dc...

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> The obvious denispetrov.com ... programmer ... a New Yorker ... end of a 25-year career and the blog dries up entirely in 2011, so it doesn’t match the place or time

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A Perl programmer: http://web.archive.org/web/20050208095206/http://www.denispe...

Archive.is started in 2012, just after retirement, why these do not match?

Both names are unisex

> Why NSA? why not CIA?

Apparently because it runs NSA software (Apache Accumulo) that is hardly used by anyone else

It took time to realize what "big C" could refer besides the obvious "Comsomol". Structurally the same, though :)

I don't think the "the proper solution" is possible in 2023, and it's not a matter of the size of the money pile.

Google and Facebook were examples of "the proper solutions".

The former is currently inaccessible from China, the latter from Russia.

Their "abuse prevention techniques" have failed.

Sacrificing only Cloudflare DNS users is a much lesser evil compared to outcome of "the proper solutions".

EDNS absence does affect cheap DNS-based CDNs and has to effect on expensive AnyCast CDNs (one of them is CloudFlare CDN).

They have own Autonomous Systems with own anycast IP addresses.

It is quite expensive for an indie project. Not to mention legal support for compliance in every country of presence. To block 0.x% of visitors coming from CloudFlare is much cheaper for a small project than to go this road.

"You ask me for an IP address, but you don't ask me with respect".

Respect is optional too. But it is important.

> The CEO of an org like CF has way better things to do with his company-time than shill on HN. Plus, if you took 2 minutes to look at eastdakota's comment history

If we took 2 minute to look at eastdakota's comment history (put aside its authenticity), we can see that he has no better things to do than to flame with us in this branch hidden by mods from the rest of the world besides us three (how this topic seen by others: http://archive.is/1VgPM)

There is a legend about an online store on the eve of the 2000s, which behaved very badly towards customers, and on forums everyone discussed how bad they are.

But their mentions performed very good for SEO and sales.

It's a [m-word] textbook story, I don't believe you don't know it.

There are no "negative stories", there are newsworthy occasions.

Reminders that we're still alive, that we're still working.

And comments about how great we are, which for some reason are far more numerous (and upvoted) in this thread than Hacker's technical discussions.

Well, calling marketing their name is abuse nowadays.

A forbidden m-word

Brands do creative marketing and do invest in it (especially after they stock fell on Q2 report).

That is why they are brands.

There is no "conspiracy" nor "chaos".

https://search.google.com/test/rich-results?url= does work

There are known ways to bypass paywall which are just impossible to implement within a browser extension while trivial on 12ft or archive. For example, to use Ukrainian residential proxy as some news websites granted free access from.

https://search.google.com/test/rich-results?url= operates from legit Googlebot IPs so it allows anyone to get the paywalled content even archive.is fails to fetch (from theinformation.com, for example)

Try this: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/freeze-or-cut-spending-figh...

Doesn't "possession" refer to "holding the copyright"? If someone illegally downloads (pirates) the copyrighted content, how do they become the possessor?

NYT has one of those simple paywalls indeed: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean...

I was wondering if there is a possibility of obtaining an offline version of the service, in order to mitigate the inherent risks associated with transmitting proprietary code to external servers, thus ensuring optimal security and confidentiality of said code?

Expect $1000-1500k.

$100k is about 5 months revenue: https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/

Those who have stock or options should not be disappointed by a 3-5x increase in the value of the company and, indeed, they have their own government to thank for the opportunity to convert the company in a way that would not have been possible otherwise: resistance from both workers and EU bureaucrats protecting the local labor market from emerging companies with 800 foreigners would have been blocking.

If we set aside moralizing, and take only the facts, then:

1. the company moved to countries with higher multipliers (i.e. with the same profit, the Dutch or German company is worth several times more than the Russian one). The current outbreak of Russophobia and panic associated with sanctions has given a unique chance to do such a relocation. They write that 800 employees agreed to move in 2022. How many would have agreed in 2021 or 2014?

2. in Russia, quite a few of the employees are local citizens. Some of them had their own homes. By getting a better offer, they could change jobs in 2 weeks. In Holland (Cyprus, Germany, ...), they need a residence permit for 1 year, tied to a specific employer. If they decide to change jobs, the new employer has to go through a months-long bureaucratic process, comparable to the process of initial migration from Russia - and this process does not guarantee a successful conclusion. And all these months they will have to pay for rented housing. And the previous (1 year, remember?) permit can expire during this process, which threatens deportation. That is, the employees have become much more dependent on the company, they will not scatter in the event of a major reorganization, cost-cutting (for the sake of morality and democracy, of course), etc.

This all looks like preparation for the sale of JetBrains. I would bet that this will happen in the coming months. The difference between 2014 and 2022 is somewhere in here, not in who attacked whom and when.

(the above is a subjective perception of their text and pure speculations, based on personal experience in a similar relocation of an IT company from Russia to EU short before 2014)

Njal.la

P.S. Also. I would avoid hosters (and other Internet services) that have political slogans on their site ("support Ukraine", "BLM", whatever). They will easily turn off paying customers for the sake of agenda and virtue signaling, whether it comes from a news feed or a single abuse complaint.

Advertising agencies offer to install these banners to get higher bids from advertisers. Webmasters have a choice. Most choose money.

Even Rapidshare had that

Blocking cookie popup would break Youtube/Twitter/Instagram embeds on some websites which hide embeds unless you accept cookies (Spiegel.de as an example, many in .nl)