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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[-] ibt3321@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago

LessWrong doesn't let you download if your user agent isn't a browser. Did y'all know about this?

$ curl https://www.lesswrong.com
<html>
<head><title>403 Forbidden</title></head>
$ curl https://www.lesswrong.com -A "Mozilla"
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago

It blocks at least Wget and Curl, but works for other unusual UA strings like "Hello".

As of 2023 this was because of a default AWS firewall rule: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gidrFxE5hdQWCrXxn/why-is-lesswrong-blocking-wget-and-curl-scrape?commentId=jzyz4sZ82bw2MgZNW

Speaking more generally, Wget's recursive crawl can cause problems if run with inadequate rate limiting. e.g. here's what wikipedia's robots.txt says:

#
# Sorry, wget in its recursive mode is a frequent problem.
# Please read the man page and use it properly; there is a
# --wait option you can use to set the delay between hits,
# for instance.
#
User-agent: wget
Disallow: /
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