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Kevin Karhan

I am aware of #invidious...

  • I'd also love to see some working instance that also unblocks age-restricted videos as well.

Sadly none I know does that...

In case you want to test that: @rasteri did a #teardown that got flagged despite being not explicit.

Uprize Robotic Dildo Teardown

I dismantle and investigate the fascinating Uprize AutoErect Vibrating Dildo!If you have any fun non-sexual ideas of what I can do with this thing, please co...
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#invidious #teardown @rasteri
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Kevin Karhan

@Enalys I literally have a static #IPv4 as a #business customer (because #consumer tariffs from my cable provider are garbage!).

  • Fortunately it's not like with some #ISP|s that - instead of fixing their shitty #CPE|s - simply put all their customers on #Spamhaus' #PBL (Policy Blocklist) so none of them can #SelfHost #eMail - not even with like #DynamicDNS!
#business #email #selfhost #consumer #PBL #isp #ipv4 #cpe #dynamicdns #spamhaus @Enalys
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Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

This is me every time I use Google now. jackyan.com/blog/2025/09/googl…

Google lies (situation normal), Google users run scrapers, Tencent users attack

Big Tech lies. Each time I use Google, I get this:     The message, 'Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot' is a sham.
Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog
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Kevin Karhan

granted it's not as if I'm with some shady #RogueISP like #CloudFlare that routinely ignores #AbuseReports entirely!

  • Not that it makes this less infuriating.

#ClownFlare

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I have this problem since almost a year as the IP range of my ISP are tagged as “VPN” by AWS and Cloudfront.
Had to close my Invidious instance. :dragn_sad:

(Was barred from using DeviantArt for a week du to the same problem, but after opening a ticket they lift the IP range ban.)

#cloudflare #clownflare #rogueisp #abusereports
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Kevin Karhan

Speaking of annoyances: #ClownFlare can't even properly protect against #DDoS even when it's blatant per #UserAgent (#ByteSpider) as had happened to #MattKC...

#CloudFlare

Blocking ByteDance for Hyper-Agressive / Malicious ByteSpider bot

Apparently ByteDance is creating giant amounts of traffic with their ByteSpider crawler. Whilst crawlers on their own ain't a problem per-se, the way it completely disregards the robots.txt file - ...
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#ddos #cloudflare #useragent #clownflare #mattkc #bytespider
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Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

Same here:

jackyan.com/blog/2025/09/autoc…

We have been hit by all the Chinese ones, told Cloudflare about them months ago, and they still arenʼt on their default list of bots. Instead the default list blocks some legit ones.
But for non-computer literate people like me, they are the only choice we have. I program in a bunch of IPs and ASNs and block them.
I have my own IP address via our ISP, but Google lies. Itʼs what they do.

Autocade gets a new logotype; and we block a lot of “AI” bots

    The Autocade logo has changed, and we’ll be letting you in on why in due course. It hasn’t been done just because of æsthetics, though after 17½ years it was probably time for an update.
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Kevin Karhan

@jackyan personally, I can tell you from experience that #ClownFlare ain't the only option.

  • In fact, any halfassing #Hoster will have even a rudimentary console to facilitate said blocks on your end.

Granted this shouldn't be necessary to begin with, but alas we've to play the hand we've been dealt…

#CloudFlare

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
www.youtube.com
#cloudflare #clownflare #hoster @Jack Yan (甄爵恩)
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Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

They may have it, my friend, but there is a huge gap between them having it and my knowing how to use it. I was trapped with IT for a decade because we were put on to AWS by one expert, and I could not do a thing without him. We are fortunately free of that so at least I can spin up new domains, but I have no idea how to update patches, for instance. A lot of this stuff is the province of experts like yourself, and we can’t always afford you.

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Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

That video is a case in point but I appreciate the good place it comes from. Pretty much everything she talks about is beyond what I can do. AWS (incl. Cloudfront) was the worst thing inflicted on us and Amazon has stolen from us. Google has directly shat on us many times. I know experts disagree, and I get that Cloudflare has supported total shitheads. To me they all suck but I will go with the option that causes me the least stress, and I will look at who has shat on us less.
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Kevin Karhan

nodds in agreement

Personally I hate #AWS for all the right reasons because "There is no #Cloud, only #SaaS & foreign servers you can't actually administrate!"

I sincerely will not use it - or "#AI" - because it'll enshittify IT and baloon costs at the same time due to #toxic #LockInEffect|s.

#Enshittification #GAFAMs #IT

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#ai #windows #cloud #it #aws #gafams #toxic #enshittification #saas #microsoft365 #serverless #CloudComputing #TechStack #lockineffect
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Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

Agreed on all points! That decade on AWS was such a waste for us, unable to experiment with new things easily—we were trapped while our hosting costs increased every month. It was a good day when we started nuking everything on there.
Ditto with “AI” which I still put into quotation marks because it is certainly not intelligent.
I had to use Microsoft 365 recently and holy crap, this is the norm for a lot of people? I am glad I stuck with WordPerfect and Quattro Pro.

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Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

I can see why. It is a badly designed POS. I am on there thinking, it has been 34 years since WordPerfect for Windows and these schmucks, who made the OS, still haven’t caught up? Outlook, still inferior to Eudora. Excel, still inferior to Quattro Pro. I know less than 1 per cent of what you know about IT and even I can’t stand it.

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Kevin Karhan

yeah...

And mind you I'm just a #sysadmin, but even I'd rather do #TSV files for tables, #markdown for #text than deal with #OOXML,

beonex.com/owl/

It's just so bad!

And mind you #IT should enable people to to their actual jobs and tasks not be a constant hinderance to the point that many folks nowadays go totally anachronistic amidst the state of it:

  • Composing music on paper and buying an overpriced digital typewriter because #PC|s get #Enshittified harder!

Owl for Office365

Owl connects Thunderbird to your Office365 email account
Owl for Office365
#pc #it #outlook #thunderbird #email #sysadmin #subscription #markdown #enshittified #text #addon #tsv #ooxml
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Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

Agreed again on all fronts. Iʼd go with Thunderbird any day over Outlook. All of that Microsoft stuff is designed to annoy. Itʼs why I always stuck with my choices of software, and managed to mostly escape it till very recently when I had no wriggle room with a client due to their security. I had to tell them the only Word I had was 97 and the last time I used Outlook was 1999, and Powerpoint was 1996.

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Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

It certainly felt that way … we were up shit creek for 10 years. Crazy thing is it took me years to find someone who could get us off AWS. I think I hired six or seven guys to go in there. Only one guy knew what he was doing and helped us a lot, but then he got hired full-time. The rest of the guys vanished, so either they saw a Japanese girl crawl out of a well or they are in the next Tron movie. Finally, a friend helped me—for free—over a three-month period. Freedom!

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Kevin Karhan

@jackyan @n_dimension yikes!

infosec.space/@kkarhan/1152813…

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@n_dimension @jackyan granted, I've seen this "#ProfessionalMalpractice" in some cases where #IT services provider decided to refuse to provide #documentation for what they setup and how to maintain it to their customers as a form of 'not legally #extortion and #blackmail' just to shackle their customers into worsening terms…
  • Basically adding #pain and #frustration by refusing to offer graceful handovers and outbound migration assistance.

IMHO every company that engages that way with their clients should be banned and forcibly disbanded!

@Jack Yan (甄爵恩) @Wulfy—Speaker to the machines
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Kevin Karhan

@n_dimension @jackyan granted, I've seen this "#ProfessionalMalpractice" in some cases where #IT services provider decided to refuse to provide #documentation for what they setup and how to maintain it to their customers as a form of 'not legally #extortion and #blackmail' just to shackle their customers into worsening terms…

  • Basically adding #pain and #frustration by refusing to offer graceful handovers and outbound migration assistance.

IMHO every company that engages that way with their clients should be banned and forcibly disbanded!

#it #documentation #pain #extortion #frustration #blackmail #professionalmalpractice @Jack Yan (甄爵恩) @Wulfy—Speaker to the machines
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