I'm 100% for my country but we do pull some shifty shit then scream to the heavens when somebody else does the same thing.
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I'm 100% for my country but we do pull some shifty shit then scream to the heavens when somebody else does the same thing.
He's a known, certified, card-carrying obnoxious rebel coming pretty close to violating a "Code of Conduct" himself pretty well every other day then his beef with Christoph about wanting to "mix languages" (C and Rust, of course) and Christoph said "I'm maintaining it and I'm not doing it, it's like a cancer" (I'm paraphrasing and he was notably not talking about Rust itself but "mixing" C and Rust) then Martin exploding and screaming that Christoph said "cancer" and that he had violated a Code of Conduct. Please.
A serious case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Of course there are well-established URLs, e.g. 9to5linux.com, that can get away with it but given a site that I didn't already know about with numerals in it, I wouldn't click the link, personally. But like I said, that's just me. Perhaps your site would be in the Top 20 most visited in the world for all I know.
Seems like a lot of work that could be better spent creating awesome content.
Can you possibly get another IP address for your AWS instance? I've never used AWS for anything so I don't know how that works. My web hosting provider has offered to move my site to another server (with a different IP address) a couple of years ago when I had similar problems. It's shared plan and someone must have been spamming from it.
We caught several people bringing in a different computer later trying to claim it was the same one and we owed them a "warranty repair" because we failed to fix it the first time.
Instead of modifying the kiosk application to require a serial number, the owner did away with it altogether and one of us from then on would have to drop what we were doing and intake all computers manually.
I suggested we could have text on the screen to the effect of "Attempting to obtain a repair under false pretenses is theft of services" or some such but he wouldn't have it.
So I guess the way we dealt with "fraud in our app" was that we stopped using the app.