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Fake Googlebot on Cloudflare Workers

Posted by SSNLF on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @02:05AM
from the self-post dept.

Appears to be a fake googlebot running on cloudflare workers, has been hitting the site thousands of times.$ grep -c "2a06:98c0:3600::103" /var/www/redacted/logs/access_log 652029https://abuse.cloudflare.com/general keeps saying session expired so cannot submit. Blocked for now. Anyone know whos running this scheme?

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Re:Apple Explains Why It Doesn't Plan to Create a Search Engine on Friday December 27, 2024 @03:21AM (#42520685)
Anecdotally "Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot" is hitting my site almost as hard as OAI-SearchBot...
Re:Apple vs. Pikotaro (Pen Pineapple Apple Pen) on Monday December 16, 2024 @06:28AM (#42430106)
Original in Japanese https://news.livedoor.com/topics/detail/27759337/
Re:macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive on Friday December 13, 2024 @09:08PM (#42414072)
tldr; sudo asr restore --source and all tools that just call that are no longer viable.
Re:Three Mistakes from Dart/Flutter's Weak PRNG on Friday December 13, 2024 @05:54PM (#42413068)
I'd say it's because Proton does not employ actual cryptographers or security engineers. They do seem to have a lot of marketing folk, interns, and particle physicists, allegedly.

Apple App Store Review

Posted by SSNLF on Thursday December 12, 2024 @02:49AM
from the self-post dept.

Been on the App Store 10+ years and without going into details I believe my app has been unfairly targeted for things other apps are allowed to do. Lodged an appeal and feel like I'm getting the run-around. Has been going on for over a month. Would prefer to, and have been trying to use the official channels. Even the official Apple dev forum is "Your post is being reviewed and will be...

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Re:Low Cost Robot Arm on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @05:00AM (#39903666)
It's cool but just reminds me of the robotic manipulation episode of big bang theory.
Re:How would you build an operating system? (SerenityOS with Andreas K... on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @06:52AM (#39287408)
I love this but just looking at the comments - while admittedly cool, implementing your own OS isn't black magic or particularly arcane knowledge; sure it's a whole lot of work where you're often reimplementing the wheel, but not outside the realm of any reasonably skilled graduate I would think.
Re:Getting started as an alternative app marketplace in the European U... on Thursday February 01, 2024 @09:44PM (#39224337)
> Marketplace developers must provide Apple a stand-by letter of credit from an A-rated (or equivalent by S&P, Fitch, or Moody’s) financial Institution of €1,000,000 prior to receiving the entitlement. It will need to be auto-renewed on a yearly basis.

Totally rules out something like F-Droid.

Re:Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023) on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @03:18AM (#39187585)
You could try Entropy Keycrypt -> https://entropykey.com/features
Re:Problems on the Galaxy Store on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:19AM (#38568123)
Apps must not have unreasonably high prices. The price $10 is too high. Yet a Nigerian scammer continues offering an app for $300, even after an employee reports it.