sigh Mom and Dad are fighting...

But seriously, this illustrates to me that Codes of Conduct are mostly suspect. This is obviously a private feud (nobody looks to be in the right here and I don't care who started what), so to pull "they violated the CoC" is pure theatre and bullshit. I'm a Sparkfun customer and I find that really disappointing.

SHHHHHH!!!! Don't tell people that or pretty soon we won't be able to find them any more! ;)

Seriously though, seconded, but also install Rockbox: https://www.rockbox.org/

Of course Rockbox. Every time. For more than a decade ...

Not sure if this is the best, but I use nftables and this article helped me setup port knocking on a debian server: https://home.regit.org/2017/07/nftables-port-knocking/

Then I added a tripwire feature to make it less likely that a random port traversal would be successful. Here's a snippet of my nftables.conf:

    define KNOCK_PORT1 = 20000
    define KNOCK_PORT2 = 30000
    define KNOCK_PORT3 = 10000
    define TRIPWIRE_PORT1 = 15000
    define TRIPWIRE_PORT2 = 25000
    
    table inet filter {
    
        .
        .
    
        set allowed_ssh {
            type ipv4_addr
            flags timeout
            elements = { $HOME_IP, $OTHER_SERVER_IP }
        }
    
        # track port knocking
        set knock1 {
            type ipv4_addr
            timeout 5s
        }
        set knock2 {
            type ipv4_addr
            timeout 5s
        }
        set banned {
            type ipv4_addr
            timeout 1m
        }
    
        # handle port knocking
        chain raw {
            type filter hook prerouting priority raw;
            policy accept;
    
            ip saddr @banned tcp dport { $KNOCK_PORT1, $KNOCK_PORT2, $KNOCK_PORT3} log prefix "nft banned: " drop
    
            tcp dport $KNOCK_PORT1 set add ip saddr @knock1 log prefix "nft knock1: " drop
            ip saddr @knock1 tcp dport $TRIPWIRE_PORT1 set add ip saddr @banned log prefix "nft tripwire1: " drop
            ip saddr @knock1 tcp dport $KNOCK_PORT2 set add ip saddr @knock2 log prefix "nft knock2: " drop
            ip saddr @knock2 tcp dport $TRIPWIRE_PORT2 set add ip saddr @banned log prefix "nft tripwire2: " drop
            ip saddr @knock2 tcp dport $KNOCK_PORT3 set add ip saddr @allowed_ssh log prefix "nft knock3: " drop
        }
    }

Very Black Mirror indeed: "View Obstructed - Resume Viewing". From the episode Fifteen Million Merits.

For some reason I find this kind of sad. This kid seems like a Dunning Kruger effect poster boy.

I mean, when I was younger I would have been gleeful about some bragging idiot getting busted but now, *shrug*, everyone just has some "condition".

Wait, these companies seem so inept that there's gotta be a way to do this without them noticing for a while:

  - detect bot IPs, serve them special pages
  - special pages require javascript to render
  - javascript mines bitcoin
  - result of mining gets back to your server somehow (encoded in which page they fetch next?)

Find a Sansa Clip, Clip+ or similar on ebay and install rockbox on it. Once setup you can just plug it into your computer and drag & drop mp3s like any other USB thumb drive. They're tiny and it's great having physical buttons; you can pause, skip, etc without looking at the device.

There are a bunch more supported players but I've only used Sansa. See: https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/TargetStatus

For me it was "JavaScript must be enabled in order to use Notion" (I'm a NoScript user). But it had already redirected me to another domain to show this page. How am I supposed to enable JS for the actual domain of the page? I have ways of course, but it seems like notion is deliberately flipping the bird to people like me...

For me it was perpetual loading spinner.

in the meantime surely plenty of telemetry being ingested. The pleasure of TheModernWeb

Seems related to this: https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/column-mass-arbi...

For some reason, when I read this I heard it in the voice of GlaDOS.

"All your other friends couldn't come either because you don't have any other friends. Because of how unlikable you are."