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New comment by exiguus in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

exiguus — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:38:18 +0000

There is also an article on we will free us [1] if you want to dive deeper into that rabbit hole.

[1] https://www.wewillfreeus.org/the-server-called-paranoia-defe...

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

exiguus — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:58:53 +0000

Earlier:

US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464391 - (131 comments)

US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451343 - (219 comments)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477854

Points: 710

# Comments: 771

New comment by exiguus in "Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge"

exiguus — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:11:58 +0000

Maybe they go with Hetzner S3 that cost 7,5EUR/Month for a TB.

New comment by exiguus in "Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge"

exiguus — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:12:30 +0000

What does a TB S3 cost a month?

New comment by exiguus in "Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge"

exiguus — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:26:36 +0000

IMO the good news about CodeFleo is, that they are very transparent of how they do the job. And as fare as I understand them, they store data in S3.

New comment by exiguus in "Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge"

exiguus — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:08:17 +0000

It's a Company in Switzerland that tell they host most of there stuff with Hetzner in Germany.

New comment by exiguus in "Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge"

exiguus — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:51:42 +0000

As far as I can tell; it's not EU. It's Switzerland. Which is a huge difference when you think about data protection and privacy.

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Btw: If I try to open the website in a normal browser, I can't, because they have some kind of protection.

New comment by exiguus in "Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies"

exiguus — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:37:28 +0000

Is that because this is the last chance before Hollywood and movie theaters go under?

New comment by exiguus in "The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)"

exiguus — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:58:00 +0000

An em dash does not make the fact that it is written by LLM. Its use alone signals a command of style and precision. Nearly every Newspaper article is written by an LLM, if we follow this logic.

New comment by exiguus in "RamenHaus"

exiguus — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:17:53 +0000

Personally, its my Japanese Pizza. Both ramen and pizza have historical roots as affordable, filling meals for the working class and poor communities. If you avoid the pork, it becomes less fast-food-ish.

The Empty Field That Wasn't: GPS, OTAD and Two Decades of Encrypted Broadcasts

exiguus — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:39:08 +0000

Article URL: https://sjmurdoch.github.io/gps-special-messages/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125440

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by exiguus in "How to Block Some of the Bots"

exiguus — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:01:02 +0000

In my view, if blocking is necessary, whitelisting is generally more effective than blacklisting. And if whitelisting isn't feasible, this might be a poor solution.

On the other hand, tools like Cloudflare and Anubis can create serous accessibility issues; some more than others.

I prefer rate limiting; it's elegant and avoids accessibility problems. For temporary issues, short-term IP bans can also work well.

Personally, I use fail2ban to parse HTTP logs and temporarily ban IPs for N hours if they request forbidden URLs (e.g., those blocked by robots.txt or paths like wp-login.php). Same if a IP trigger the rate limit much to often. And currently, I'm testing Anubis on my Git web UI.

New comment by exiguus in "Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history"

exiguus — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:35:48 +0000

I looked it up, because for me it looked kind of cool. It's tangled not Forgejo when i got it right.

[1] https://tangled.org/

New comment by exiguus in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

exiguus — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:20:05 +0000

The facts I was missing (also in the article):

The changes made by Codeberg e.V. are:

First:

> 7. You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).

Second:

> - Content that harms the reputation of Codeberg, such as cryptocurrency related projects.

Now, I know them. IC no issue.

New comment by exiguus in "Codeberg Divides"

exiguus — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:10:26 +0000

The facts are missing in the Article. The changes really made by Codeberg e.V. are:

First:

> 7. You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).

Second:

> - Content that harms the reputation of Codeberg, such as cryptocurrency related projects.

New comment by exiguus in "Codeberg Divides"

exiguus — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:04:09 +0000

That's not true. The new "rule" say:

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/commit/71149c7fc95ccfeae36...

New comment by exiguus in "Codeberg Divides"

exiguus — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:47:04 +0000

I think we should point out that Codeberg is a e.V. and that they have a Mission Statement [1]

> The mission of Codeberg e.V. is to build and maintain a free collaboration platform for creating, archiving, and preserving code and to document its development process.

[1] https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/what-is-codeberg/#...

As I understand it, they do not ban Crypto. Crypto is just an example for a category of projects that harm there reputation. The formulation for AI generated code is different. It does not point out AI / LLMs as example for copyright issues. It does it the other way around.

New comment by exiguus in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

exiguus — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:03:25 +0000

When I read the issues thread on Codeberg, it reaffirmed my decision to self-host my Git repositories and mirror them to GitHub, GitLab, and Codeberg. At the time, I chose this approach because Codeberg already had its "no private repos" rule in place. I know they don't ban all private repos, but still, I wonder: Did they have bad experiences with private repos, LLMs, or crypto projects? Or is this a preemptive measure?

However, Github and Others can also ban or delete my stuff anytime. But the feeling is a different. Because now I'm thinking what's next?

Tolerance is a beautiful thing, but it can also be painful. Perhaps, in general, it's better to make individual decisions rather than relying on sweeping statements.

Banning LLMs and crypto sounds more like a move made by a fearful, angry person and has little to do with openness.

New comment by exiguus in "I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned"

exiguus — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:02:39 +0000

IndieWeb is a form of social media. People have a certain image of themselves, and the internet helps them live up to it. Whether we're writing comments on HN, posting toots on Mastodon, uploading videos to TikTok, or writing a post on our own blog, there’s a lot of self-expression involved.

However, for a lot of people, platforms like TikTok are more appealing than IndieWeb, but for some, it's fun to set up an OpenBSD VPS, a static web server, and learn to write better in text files using their favorite editor.

A self-determined workflow can be more important than being seen. However, one doesn't rule out the other, and the Author and IndieWeb offers some good tips.

Thanks for the post.

New comment by exiguus in "Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time"

exiguus — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:47:36 +0000

I have a similar experience with a tendency to Digital Ocean. Actually, I semi-automatically collect IPs that are banned by (mostly SSH) fail2ban and eBPF bans from dnsdist. These IPs are then merged into CIDRs, which are used as ipsets in a firewall ban chain. The IPs are collected on around ~20 Machines with public, static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Most of the Machines are in Canada and Europe.

However, I have statistics for the CIDRs based on their whois record that look like:

CIDRs used: 1255

Already cached: 1252

Skipped uncached targets: 0

IPs scanned total: 985300

Estimated throttled wait: 0.10 minutes

== Country codes ==

Metric: Top 10 of 90 unique country codes

Total: 1183 country codes total and 90 unique country codes in 1255 targets

  US  287
  CN  132
  NL  88
  VN  53
  DE  51
  HK  45
  AU  38
  ID  36
  RU  33
  CA  27

== Regions ==

Metric: Top 10 of 29 unique regions

Total: 334 regions total and 29 unique regions in 1255 targets

  CO  48
  FL  40
  WA  37
  QLD  32
  GA  26
  NY  25
  CA  23
  TX  17
  QC  15
  UT  14

== Origin ASNs ==

Metric: Top 10 of 382 unique origin ASNs

Total: 805 origin ASNs total and 382 unique origin ASNs in 1255 targets

  AS16276  26
  AS132203  24
  AS24086  18
  AS38731  18
  AS7552  18
  AS24940  17
  AS9808  15
  AS135377  14
  AS137718  13
  AS62390  11

== Netnames ==

Metric: Top 10 of 630 unique netnames

Total: 1157 netnames total and 630 unique netnames in 1255 targets

  RIPE  38
  MSFT  31
  SINGLEHOP  25
  ACEVILLEPTELTD-SG  21
  VIETTEL-VN  18
  CMNET  17
  APNIC  16
  CHINANET-GD  14
  VOLCANO-ENGINE  13
  UCLOUD-HK  11

== Org names ==

Metric: Top 10 of 222 unique org names

Total: 703 org names total and 222 unique org names in 1255 targets

  RIPE Network Coordination Centre  55
  DigitalOcean, LLC  40
  Asia Pacific Network Information Centre  32
  Microsoft Corporation  31
  Internap Holding LLC  25
  HostPapa  23
  Korea Telecom  20
  Hetzner Online GmbH  17
  China Mobile  16
  ReliableSite.Net LLC  16

== Organizations ==

Metric: Top 10 of 236 unique organizations

Total: 691 organizations total and 236 unique organizations in 1255 targets

  RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE)  55
  DigitalOcean, LLC (DO-13)  40
  Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)  32
  Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)  31
  Internap Holding LLC (IC-1425)  25
  HostPapa (HOSTP-7)  23
  ORG-HOA1-RIPE  17
  ORG-CM1-AP  16
  ReliableSite.Net LLC (RL-323)  15
  FranTech Solutions (SYNDI-5)  13

== Domains ==

Metric: Top 10 of 534 unique domains

Total: 2581 domains total and 534 unique domains in 1255 targets

  rdap.arin.net  404
  apps.db.ripe.net  83
  chinatelecom.cn  63
  vnnic.vn  58
  ripe.net  55
  www.ripe.net  53
  apnic.net  46
  digitalocean.com  44
  ovh.net  38
  www.as14061.net  35

I deleted the (abuse) mail section. Because. 99% of the IPs are IPv4. In the IPset are mostly /32 but also a lot of ~/24 and rarely ~/16 segments. RIPE, ARIN and APNIC comes into play because some CIDR blocks are somewhat generously sized and block multiple network segments belonging to different organizations at the same time. E.g. this hides BR from the stats (because the ipset mostly bans every provider from BR).