I regularly hit CloudFlare-fronted services that refuse to return (even static) pages because I'm browsing from lynx(1). Really irksome. And yes, changing the UA-string to something Chrome-ish/Firefoxish merrily bypasses the braindead check.
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Tim Chase (gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 00:20:40 JST Tim Chase
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 00:20:39 JST ティージェーグレェ
(curse words) g.f.d. CloudFlare.
There are SO MANY OTHER CDNs! I wish people/orgs would stop using the terrible ones.
CC: @prahou@merveilles.town @xtaran@chaos.socialHaelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this. -
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ティージェーグレェ (teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 00:21:15 JST ティージェーグレェ
Haha, get thee to alt.sysadmin.recovery stat! ;) Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this. -
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Tim Chase (gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 00:21:17 JST Tim Chase
@teajaygrey
amusingly, my brain first tried to parse your curse-word abbreviation as a Usenet group hierarchy 🤦
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