#indieweb 2025-10-06

2025-10-06 UTC
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Philly Homebrew Website Club 2 Recap" https://zephnet.biz/posts/2025-10-06_07-00-00/
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[Zephyr] yay it worked!
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Loqi does a happy dance!
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paperbritt In the ongoing battle against bots, I'm pretty sure there's no legitimate reason for hwclouds and alibaba cloud bots to be accessing my site with such brutal regularity. Might be time to block them in .htaccess - any other common offenders I should consider? Or any reasons I shouldn't block these sources?
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paperbritt I'm finding alibaba cloud particularly bad as they don't delcare themselves with a hostname, I only know it's them by looking up a whole lot of IP addresses.
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kebokyo goob morbing
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node1 Hello
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[tantek] what is alibaba
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "alibaba" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "alibaba is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] ^ paperbritt, if you want to create a stub critcism article about their misbheavior, and the evidence you have found, please go ahead
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paperbritt Cool, I shall gather my evidence. Honestly it's probably someone using their cloud service but still, it shouldn't be happening.
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[tantek] indeed, even if they are "only" enabling abuse that counts
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gRegor Anyone planning (or already have) a /holiday theme for their site for Halloween?
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gRegor I was thinking of swapping out the posting activity boxes on my homepage with pumpkins and/or ghosts
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