Simple answer is I find search engines mostly useless. There is no investment in curation, compared to site-specific search. I run and have access to a few semi-private curated lists of resources, good enough for most of what I need and certainly for the kinds of resources I (and other like-minded people) host solely on-prem. Furthermore "search engines good" does nothing about the "not good" traffic; it's a not even wrong argument from my POV.
This wasn't some huge technical lift for me to implement. Trust me on that. I got tired of Amazon stinking up my logs and decided that since I can't discriminate based on reliable information about the services being hosted there which have a legitimate need to reach out, I just don't need their help. Really, I'm helping them by ensuring no spurious pongs or SYN/ACKs come from me. See? I'm helping the best I can.
If you think this is heavy-handed and arbitrary, take a close look at email and domain reputation providers sometime.
Need a version of nc which does multicast and is written in python? Well, you can't get that from an Amazon address anymore... unless you've mirrored it. How many people care? How many people care about precinct-level voting patterns for King County Washington from roughly 2005-2009?
It's not a "grand narrative", I've been playing with the internet since it was possible to do so legally. If explaining that history is grandiose for you, that's you. I host on-prem for my convenience and nobody else's. Enjoy the article... or not.
This wasn't some huge technical lift for me to implement. Trust me on that. I got tired of Amazon stinking up my logs and decided that since I can't discriminate based on reliable information about the services being hosted there which have a legitimate need to reach out, I just don't need their help. Really, I'm helping them by ensuring no spurious pongs or SYN/ACKs come from me. See? I'm helping the best I can.
If you think this is heavy-handed and arbitrary, take a close look at email and domain reputation providers sometime.
Need a version of nc which does multicast and is written in python? Well, you can't get that from an Amazon address anymore... unless you've mirrored it. How many people care? How many people care about precinct-level voting patterns for King County Washington from roughly 2005-2009?
It's not a "grand narrative", I've been playing with the internet since it was possible to do so legally. If explaining that history is grandiose for you, that's you. I host on-prem for my convenience and nobody else's. Enjoy the article... or not.