Kinda, but also not really. Any major tech player that has billions to lose will make a show of respecting robots.txt when presenting that information to third parties, lest they be exposed by basic journalism.
However, they also have separate networks in R&D that sweep the net all the time and do not care about such restrictions. It’s theatre.
And they’re still happy to punish people that have the gall to publicly decline their crawlers. Basically they can eat their cake and have it too.
Shall I bring the amyl nitrates for after the kiss?
If you want DDoS protection you’re gonna need to work with someone who can swallow and filter a whole botnet’s worth of traffic and keep running. That takes some serious infrastructure.
I recommend Cloudflare for small businesses because their terms of service are actually decent, and blending their traffic into that stream makes their website indistinguishable from larger competition.
The next closest things are Pangolin (https://digpangolin.com/) and WireGuard. You’ll need to rent a server somewhere with a public-facing IP to run the server-side software (and DDoS protection is based on the services provided by your datacenter host). Pangolin has a UI similar to Cloudflare, but under the hood, it’s just Wireguard, so if you prefer more direct control, you can just set up a Wireguard tunnel by hand.
For myself, and my own needs, I don’t need all that. I just use DDNS* to point my DNS records to my home’s public ip address & use port forwarding to connect ports 80 & 443 to Nginx Proxy Manager. (When I add Anubis, I’ll port forward to Anubis and then have Anubis redirect valid traffic to Nginx Proxy Manager) This setup offers no protection against DDoS, but for what I use it for, I think it’s an acceptable risk (I’d either have to get someone’s attention and ire or just be cosmically unlucky)
*the server has a cron job to curl the DDNS refresh URL every hour.
Hot dang! From the Wizard Pope themselves! #jealous
The other boxy thing is a black ribbon dispenser to hog tie the guy’s hands.
Oh, I absolutely meant the heritage foundation, but not just only them. I didn’t care to go with specific names because we could sweep away all the companies now and they’d be back with new names and new shell companies within a fortnight.
Not sure if you’re being silly, but that’s like 90% of pup play with a praise kink.
I have given so many adult humans scritches and would love to give you pets.
It may have started as a variation of a gimp suit, but pup play today is all about going to concerts and to parks and adults playing together and expressing their individuality with a colorful, (maybe customized) ‘hood’ (what’s worn over the face). The sex and BDSM stuff is generally de-emphasized or often prohibited (unless you go out of your way to find that stuff).
It’s great for people with anxiety or celebrity, the freedom to let yourself be “not seen as yourself” for a bit is empowering.
I agree. The reason Fox and similar think tanks like trump is because he keeps getting into scandal after scandal without time to digest anything.
I don’t think Trump plans all these scandals, but I do suspect there’s yes men teams deliberately arranging for the opportunities.
I just saw KDE Bigscreen got reboot. While it’s not exactly the same (its for TVs, like Android TV and Steam Big Picture mode), it’s nice to see major desktop environments(DE) adopt new UI features for small and large devices. This compliments work done by groups like PinePhone, who laid the groundwork for Linux phones.
It’s not that I can’t do basic research, but Lemmy is warm and nice, and the rage storm outside is getting worse by the hour.
Thank you for enduring the slop and muck for us and bringing home some relevant context to share.
I love technology and gadgets!
Got this Cuckoo clock, and it never asks me to sign in.
I have a compass gadget in my car - never have to sign in
My propane camp stove - fun fact, no sign in!
I have a #2 pencil - I sign in with it regularly …
I own dozens of screws - brilliant tech helps me keep it all together, no sign in though
We’ve been doing great tech since the OG ‘Fire’. I’m beginning to think what we call the ‘tech’ industry has a very limited understanding of what tech actually is.
I expect this is sarcasm (can’t know, because of Poe’s)
But for anyone genuinely thinking this you can see the dashcam source in her glasses reflection.
Because the tech industry hasn’t had a real hit of it’s favorite poison “private equity” in too long.
The industry has played the same playbook since at least 2006. Likely before, but that’s when I personally stated seeing it. My take is that they got addicted to the dotcom bubble and decided they can and should recreate the magic evey 3-5 years or so.
This time it’s AI, last it was crypto, and we’ve had web 2.0, 3.0, and a few others I’m likely missing.
But yeah, it’s sold like a panacea every time, when really it’s revolutionary for like a handful of tasks.
Yes! We’ve gotten them up to 94℅ wrong at the behest of insurance agencies.
Chad died the way he lived … coating all his friends faces and bodies in a carnal blast of his essence.
Right? Like - talk about having the luckiest version of XKCD’s Ten Thousand!
Oh! Is that the new “Science, Technology, Engineering, AI, And Math” Curricula? 🪦
We already murder some babies. Why not murder all babies?
How about “because if bad stuff is bad, more bad stuff is worse”?