Hacker News: Velocifyer

New comment by Velocifyer in "Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?"

Velocifyer — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:44:12 +0000

“A loopback network interface” or “A interface that refers to the same host”.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

Velocifyer — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:21:17 +0000

I see many mediawiki wikis (like the Arch Linux wiki) using anubis succsefully. It can be configured to only act on certain paths.

Ask HN: Do you use Cloudflare bot protection? If so, why do you use it?

Velocifyer — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:51:45 +0000

Ask HN: Do you use Cloudflare bot protection? If so, why do you use it? Did you stress test your servers and determine that you need bot blocking? Have you considered alternatives like anubis?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350107

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Velocifyer in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

Velocifyer — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:43:21 +0000

It would be more profitable to mine bitcoin.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

Velocifyer — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:41:27 +0000

The botnet operators will be incentivized to mine bitcoin instead of whatever they are doing.

Minutes of the 10th OpenPGP Email Summit (2026)

Velocifyer — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:19:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openpgp.org/community/email-summit/2026/minutes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313199

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Velocifyer in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

Velocifyer — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:06:50 +0000

hCaptcha is horrible. I think that a PoW captcha would be effective to make spammers just mine Monero instead.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

Velocifyer — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:06:43 +0000

hCaptcha is horrible. I think that a PoW captcha would be effective to make spammers just mine Monero instead.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

Velocifyer — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:37:56 +0000

If you are OK with carrier locks (eg if you don't need cell service) and are in the USA, you can actually get mot 5Gs for $30 at walmart. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Straight-Talk-Motorola-Moto-g-202...

New comment by Velocifyer in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

Velocifyer — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:21:45 +0000

Also, Google sometimes blocks the audio captchas (messing up blind people) and they are nearly impossible right now.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

Velocifyer — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:30:39 +0000

>would you like a credit in the blogpost like a quote?

Yes.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

Velocifyer — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:01:57 +0000

I'm pretty sure that the Ai copied the $30 number from my hacker news comments. However in the USA it is true. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Straight-Talk-Motorola-Moto-g-202... (carrier locks don't matter for this usecase.) I am not sure that that storing unique device identifiers is legal in the EU.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software"

Velocifyer — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:18:38 +0000

Have you tried using a web app? A well made PWA app can work well, and most iPhone users don't care about memory or lag.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Cloudflare responded to the "Copy Fail" Linux vulnerability"

Velocifyer — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:01:16 +0000

I do actually agree with that change.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Spectro – macOS app to detect fake lossless audio files"

Velocifyer — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:32:07 +0000

No, because I don't use macOS often. I usually use GNU+Linux.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

Velocifyer — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:31:56 +0000

Try using anubis. It uses a PoW challenge to make it not make economic sense to scrape websites.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

Velocifyer — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:30:16 +0000

PoW challenges that make bots not viable.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

Velocifyer — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:29:19 +0000

There is already so much backlash. If I ever use a recaptcha, I will have Google Gemini solve it wasting Googles compute and messing up the dataset.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

Velocifyer — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:28:12 +0000

If you make a blog post, make sure to also comment on how the audio reCAPTCHAs are nearly impossible and are blocked on public VPNs. The visual reCAPTCHAS have vauge instructions (they say “Select all squares with busses.” when they mean “Select all squares that have a bus or part of a bus and do not select any other squares.”. For 2 years I could not figure that out so I had to use the audio captchas but then Google blocked them on public VPNs and also made them almost impossible. I could only figure that out when Google Gemini clarified it for me.

New comment by Velocifyer in "Multi-stroke text effect in CSS"

Velocifyer — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:45:35 +0000

I wonder what is the best way to do double stroked text without using fancy Unicode characters while still displaying what the font recommends. I currently use fancy characters on [my blog](https://blog.velocifyer.com/), but that harms search results. I am in the processes of migrating my blog to 11ty (from manual HTML) and I want to improve my blog at the same time.

PS: Please give me comments on the current design of the blog.