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jonatron··on Cloudflare takes legal action over LaLiga's "disproportionate blocking efforts"
No, it's my recollection of words spoken by a lawyer. https://torrentfreak.com/internet-backbone-cogent-blocks-clo... is related to the topic.
jonatron··on Cloudflare takes legal action over LaLiga's "disproportionate blocking efforts"
It's my understanding that the usual process is to ask Cloudflare to move infringing domains from shared IP addresses to fixed IP's, before blocking.
jonatron··on Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act
This list of requirements is excessive and nobody wants to read through endless documents and do endless risk assessments. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-c...

Children's access assessments - 32 pages

Guidance on highly effective age assurance and other Part 5 duties - 50 pages

Protecting people from illegal harms online - 84 pages

Illegal content Codes of Practice for user-to-user services - 84 pages

jonatron··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
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jonatron··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
Not true.
jonatron··on Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode
At a previous company, devops would regularly find CPU fan failures on Hetzner. That's in addition to the usual expected HD/SSD failures. You've got to do your own monitoring, it's one of the reasons why unmanaged servers are cheaper than cloud instances.
jonatron··on Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5
Blog post from same author explaining https://b4rtaz.medium.com/how-to-run-llama-3-405b-on-home-de...
jonatron··on Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?
Anywhere like the UK. Ireland, or west coast Canada. I can't deal with hot sunny weather. Learning languages is hard.
jonatron··on Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours
There's a backport https://packages.debian.org/bookworm-backports/source/smartm...
jonatron··on Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
I can't say about how good they are, but over 400,000 CS graduates in China [1] per year sounds like a lot. https://www.ctol.digital/news/chinas-it-boom-slows-computer-...
jonatron··on How shutdown Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear fast
Andrews Office Furniture, next to inmarsat?
jonatron··on UK's hardware talent is being wasted
The jobs above 90k generally don't specify a salary on the job posting. Just two examples: Goldman Sachs and Meta.
jonatron··on So you want to build your own data center
Why would you call colocation "building your own data center"? You could call it "colocation" or "renting space in a data center". What are you building? You're racking. Can you say what you mean?
jonatron··on Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
I just looked at the logs for a site, and I saw PerplexityBot is looking at the robots.txt and ignoring it. They don't provide a list of IPs to verify if it is actually them. Anyway, just for anyone with PerplexityBot in their user agent, they can get increasingly bad responses until the abuse stops.
jonatron··on Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
You haven't seen any problems because you created a solution to the problem!
jonatron··on Is XYplorer really written in VB6?
I know someone that still has a VB6 job. It's apparently repetitive and they haven't had a new client for many years, but I guess it'll continue until their clients don't need the software.
jonatron··on Curl-Impersonate
There are sites that will block curl and python-requests completely, but will allow curl-impersonate. IIRC, Amazon is an example that has some bot protection but it isn't "serious".
jonatron··on We use our own hardware at Fastmail
Even for cloud providers, these are mostly other people's problems, eg: Equinix
jonatron··on School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study
The kids were wearing smart watches for the study. Source: The TV show, Episode 1, about 9 minutes in.
jonatron··on School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study
To finish that sentence:

> , and reported getting a full hour of extra rest each night.

An hour seems like kind of a big impact.

jonatron··on "BGP at home": getting a DIA circuit installed at home
In this case, he said it's a fun and interesting way to add resiliency to the existing co-location they have.

I frequently see people default to AWS, without any consideration of any other options. If you're running beyond a couple of small EC2 instances, it's worth looking at other options such as colocation. 37signals wrote about their cloud exit and how much they saved.

jonatron··on Which power plant does my electricity come from?
To reduce curtailment, more transmission is required. However, the planning process is absolutely ridiculous, so multiple years of consultations are required before there's a chance anything might actually get built.
jonatron··on The Practical Guide to Scaling Django
I had to create streaming zips of files from S3 on the fly about 10 years ago, https://github.com/jonatron/django-s3-stream . I didn't find it fun.
jonatron··on The Practical Guide to Scaling Django
The magic header is probably X-Accel-Redirect
jonatron··on Rewrite It in Rails
I think SQLAlchemy vs Django ORM was a 2007 blogging topic: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2007/sep/04/orm-wars/
jonatron··on Buy payphones and retire
In London, we had I-Plus Kiosks, a long forgotten waste of money. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3058209.stm (2003) and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1691434.stm (2001) . IIRC, the council thought it'd be a good use of taxpayer's money.
jonatron··on How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan
"You are only allowed to stay as a "Temporary Visitor" for a total of 180 days during a 12-month period." Similarly, the EU has a 90/180 day rule, so it doesn't work long term.
jonatron··on Turning Disposable Vapes into a Fast Charge Power Bank
Alternatively, have an explosion containment pie dish ready.
jonatron··on Britain's reliance on coal-fired power set to end after 140 years
https://archive.is/7lqDi
jonatron··on Extreme Pi Boot Optimization
Other than broadcom licensing, I can guess that there's a warranty issue because the firmware controls the voltage.
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