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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by bedelman on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @12:42AM (#46441733)
Was the VPT site not working for you, so you had to resort to archive.org? Original link https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/ . Anyone having trouble -- contact Ben Edelman (easily found by web search) and I will genuinely value the opportunity to get to the bottom of what is wrong.
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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by arionmiles on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @01:20AM (#46441895)
I think I saw a 5xx error when I tried to see the original link. I assumed it might have been due to a hug of death.

It seems to be loading fine now.

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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by bedelman on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @01:24AM (#46441911)
Your diagnosis is correct. VPT has been most focused on building our testing automation, then improving reports and dashboards. We knew this spike of traffic was coming, but we didn't finish sufficient WordPress optimizations. Apologies.
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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by arionmiles on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @01:28AM (#46441929)
No worries. A hug of death is a good problem to have.
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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by cwal37 on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @11:42AM (#46445726)
Yup, was just dead for me and stayed dead, so I went and grabbed an archived link.

Don’t recall precisely how it was dead, but I assumed via traffic.

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