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New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:17:01 +0000

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New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:07:54 +0000

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New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:12:06 +0000

In short, just answering this question (which as stated in the other comment is not the issue), yes that person has t done anything wrong. There is no offence for wearing hats in banks.

New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:58:15 +0000

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New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:05:15 +0000

It refutes nothing, it attempts to place the blame for cloudflare incompetence at the feet of a user who has done nothing wrong.

New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:01:29 +0000

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New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Dark Energy May Not Exist: Something Stranger Might Explain the Universe"

ghjfrdghibt — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:51:05 +0000

I hope this is true, it seems to make sense even to someone with absolutely no knowledge of this stuff, like me. It seems simple. I like simple.

New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts"

ghjfrdghibt — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:12:35 +0000

This company is older than America...

From my extremely limited searching (Wikipedia) it's almost as old as the state itself.

New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Gource: Software Version Control Visualization"

ghjfrdghibt — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:31:37 +0000

I used this once, completely unrelated to version control, to visualise the number of referrals my dept had received over time (broken down but year and month) to visually show the growth of referrals and why we needed more people to manage the influx.

Was it cool? Yes. Did it show the issue in an easily to understand way anyone could understand? Yes. Did it change anything? Hell no.

New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:31:35 +0000

I vaguely remember this from this last year though I can't remember all the details. That's a scary slippery slope.

Of course it'll be presented as a security feature, because users are dumb, whilst also allowing vendors to lock you into their ecosystem; similar to how passkeys are currently being push by these same companies.

New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 22:12:37 +0000

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New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:01:50 +0000

It wasn't meant to be taken seriously, I was using it to show the ridiculousness of blaming a user for the shortcomings of cloudflare.

But if you like: the arbitrarily blocked user if not at fault, cloudflare is at fault.

New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:28:10 +0000

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New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:44:59 +0000

Maybe you're right, I see it all the time. Assume cloudflare do other dumb stuff too then like up ranges and just being generally crap at their jobs.

New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "The Peter Principle still resonates"

ghjfrdghibt — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:42:31 +0000

I think this principle likely does not include the public sector which like to promote to incompetence, and beyond; buzz lightyear style.

New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:29:09 +0000

The issue is scummy companies like cloudflare which are causing these issues. If your software is blocking legitimate users then your software is shit at its job. It's not the users fault.

New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:24:35 +0000

The suggestion you should have to bend over backwards for shitty software like cloudflare is bad enough; but if you were going to surely creating a new browser profile is far easily than spinning up a debain docker image, updating it and the installing Firefox and the running it?

New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

ghjfrdghibt — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:18:37 +0000

It seems that if you use Firefox with an adblocker then cloudflare spam is all you see. Though I have experienced this in plain Firefox too.

Cloudflare are a scummy company trying to force you to use one browser and view all ads.

New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year"

ghjfrdghibt — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:01:52 +0000

It's just another day isn't it?

New comment by ghjfrdghibt in "How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year"

ghjfrdghibt — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 22:54:14 +0000

Personally I'd go with 13 months of 4 weeks each.

The only issue I see would be if you were born on a Monday your birthday would always be on a Monday.