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CloudFlare is cancer: Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access lloydatkinson.net Why have I been blocked? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.


That is some site owner that has configured Cloudflare to block you. It's the same thing as an establishment hiring security guards to block access.


That is some site owner who wanted free cdn/ddos protection, accepted the default settings, and has no way of knowing which the blocked users are blocked wrongly.

I used to use cloudflare on my static website and I had no idea I was blocking all tor users until someone on HN let me know.

Cancer is too strong a word though. It’s more like a bad case of jock itch IMHO.


I use Cloudflare Pages, and having heard these sorts of stories from HN and other places, I did spend some time exploring the settings to ensure the largest number of people could access the site. My impression was that the default settings were pretty much the loosest options around. In particular, for Tor, I would have needed to manually enable to block (it's off by default), and even then, Cloudflare automatically generates a magnet link for each site they host, and allow Tor browser users to automatically redirect to those magnet links.

I agree that it's a bit opaque, but I think that comes with the territory. If Cloudflare could tell you exactly which groups were getting blocked, then DDOS protection wouldn't be so big a problem in the first place - you just select all the bad actors and block them, and you're fine.


I agree, default "Medium" firewall setting is the very first thing I change on a new site.


What error code specifically you get?


No. Glow connects to internet servers, screw that.


Oops, I actually meant Gum, not Glow. Different project from the same folks.

That said, I use Glow to render markdown sometimes. When and how does it connect to internet servers?


I think the person you're responding to is FOS but anyone can audit the source code to find such a thing: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow


Please point me to the exact place in the source code where it does that:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow


https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/issues/172

https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/issues/615

But it looks like they finally removed that code a few months ago: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/pull/619


yeah, looks like they had a "secure markdown stashing feature" at some point which is a cool way to do usage tracking while claiming you're offering a useful feature... and then people weren't fooled.

I'm fine with it


But there is frankenPHP [1] already. And it's not just an interpreter, it's a complete app server with Caddy web server underneath.

[1] - https://frankenphp.dev


This is the opposite - Franken is PHP in Go. This one is Go in PHP.


But that doesn't even make any s... Oh, I misread the title then.


No worries, I got you :). Cheers and cya round


I want to express just pure love towards your idea that software should be simple.


AFWall+

Switched to it from NetGuard mentioned above.


Pure graphomania.

Look, ma, I'm a blogger! Wait, no scratch that - I'm a WRITER!


r/DIWhy material.


For me it's exactly the opposite: I like numbered versions and I hate this Ubuntu/Debian/appleOS idiocy with naming versions like barking bore or lucrative lynx or Samara or any other crap like this where you need to constantly google the whole naming series to get the idea which one is newer.


I assumed the “unfortunate naming” being referred to was the “Vanilla” part, not the version identifier.


Some of us olds remember OS/2 as a thing. :)


Like "Meh, it's ok" Linux...


This is pure cancer for the web we know.


But I don't care how old they are, why did you mention that property as if it's something relevant to how the project should be perceived?


Because this kids writing code a lot better than many professional programmers.


Again: I don't care if they are a kid or an old fart, this should not be anyhow relevant to the post.


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