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"Sorry, you have been blocked"

Well I guess I won't be reading your article then.

The way so many web sites are now banning whole parts of the world is killing the Internet.

Re:Minimal Phone 2 on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:15AM (#49763860)
That seems excessive. In many parts of the world, WhatsApp is the default app for texting people (ie the one you use to contact a plumber or a restaurant) and not having it means the phone fails at its most basic requirements.
It blows my mind that a bunch of adults, prosecutors, CPS employees, etc all decided the fair, reasonable and best thing to do was prosecute and punish this mother.
Re:Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:34AM (#48888706)
Oh wow thanks, I had completely forgotten about the Ultrasound even though I loved mine back in the days.
Re:Modern decor may be straining people's brains on Sunday July 12, 2026 @10:35AM (#48881521)
Lucky you, at least you can load it. My IP (from a generic run of the mill ISP) just seems outright blocked.
From my understanding this one is used for hiring tech workers only. The (very) widely used Workday application system for ex seems to have its own built-in ATS.
Re:Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight on Thursday June 11, 2026 @04:42AM (#48487856)
I try to stick to plain HTML5 / Javascript validation. Trying to not reinvent the wheel and use what the browser already has built-in seems best.
Re: on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:31PM (#48440405)
This is great but at this point you should also give the calories since you have all the precise ingredients
Re:Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute on Saturday June 06, 2026 @09:54PM (#48430991)
Are we talking about bonds or government bonds here? The former will beat inflations assuming you don't just buy AAA rated ones. Investment grade perpetual bonds in US dollars yield over 6.5% on a Yield-to-call basis.
I use a plain Firefox on a plain Windows 11 PC on a plain regular mass market ISP in a developed country and I get completely blocked by websites daily.

At least let me complete a "prove you are human" challenge or something, but don't outright ban my IP address?

Well my IP (regular plain residential Asian ISP) is blocked on this site. Zealous Cloudflare-blocking is breaking the web.

(also thanks for the useful message telling me to "contact the website owner... while blocking me from the website where the contact info should be)

> It's people who stopped believing anyone was watching.

Which, in the era of social media, video surveillance, smartphones and dashcams, is crazy. Once you leave your home, you have to assume everything you do is recorded and might end up online or in court.

I spent countless hours as a teen on that game. I feel it might be faster to rewrite it from scratch though than reverse engineer it.
Re:A Brief History of Oral Peptides on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @09:04PM (#46969849)
AFAIK it's a meme stock, reality doesn't matter anymore than it matters for Tesla or Gamestock.
Re:Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @02:07AM (#46956299)
> higher caffeinated coffee intake was significantly associated with lower dementia risk (141 vs 330 cases per 100 000 person-years comparing the fourth [highest] quartile of consumption with the first [lowest] quartile; hazard ratio, 0.82 [95% CI, 0.76 to 0.89])

That's a very big difference.

Re:jQuery 4.0.0 Released on Sunday January 18, 2026 @04:05AM (#46666132)
It's fairly close now but so much more verbose: ie document.getElementById('theID') vs $('#theID')
Re:jQuery 4.0.0 Released on Sunday January 18, 2026 @04:04AM (#46666127)
Indeed. Though a lot of its feature found their way into plain vanilla Javascript and browsers, the syntax is still so much easier with jQuery.
Re:OLED, Not for Me on Saturday January 10, 2026 @02:04AM (#46563494)
Same here. OLED is fine for gamers who use it a couple hours here and there but for a system that's on 8+ hour per day with a taskbar and the usual work apps, this is just not adequate.
It's ugly, poorly built, expensive and not very good as a truck. A gas engine will not fix all these flaws.
It's ugly, poorly built, expensive and not very good as a truck. A gas engine will not fix all these flaws.
I have almost zero spam (that isn't filtered properly). Once in a while I catch a false positive in the spam folder but that's about it.
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:20AM (#45966403)
There's worse than having to prove (over and over and over again) that you are human: having your IP just completely blocked by Cloudflare zealous bot-filtering (and I use a plain mass market ISP in a developed country and not some shady network)
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:19AM (#45966374)
As a user I do care, because I waste so much time on Cloudflare's "prove you are human" blocking-page (why do I have to prove it over and over again?), and frequently run on websites blocking me entirely based on some bad IP-blacklist used along with Cloudflare.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications on Friday September 19, 2025 @11:05PM (#45309903)
It wouldn't be hard to select and accredit at least the better universities. Giving an automatic work visa to every foreign Ivy graduate should be a no-brainier. You could take the top 30% or 50% ranked US News universities and accredit those, or some similar heuristics.
Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes on Sunday September 14, 2025 @10:46PM (#45245574)
Basic cakes are fairly trivial. A pound cake (or butter cake) for ex is just egg, butter, flour and sugar in equal weights and a bit of baking powder.

The other issue the article's author doesn't discuss is that boxed mixes are usually country specific. What you find in the US is usually not available in 90% of the world, nevermind in the right box size.

Lack of construction is likely the problem. High financing costs, expensive construction material (a lot of it is imported, like Canadian wood) and disappearing construction workers is probably all contributing.
Re:My phone is an ereader now on Sunday August 31, 2025 @05:36AM (#45081833)
Reminds me of that phone that had a regular screen on one side and e-ink on the other side. Maybe someone should make a foldable where the outside screen is an e-ink and the inside a regular foldable OLED.
BYD makes a pickup truck (the BYD Shark) and SUVs (though none as large as a Tahoe or Suburban - yet)
I mean Toyota is now the #1 car manufacturer in the world and Japanese brands have about 1/3 of the US car market, so Japan didn't do too badly really.
I had and followed that advice but in a slightly different delivery: "take photos of peoples, not things".

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