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And it's all there: "You can change it in the source of course, nothing prevents you from it",— it actually seems pretty polite, but I'm sure the dev can get nasty about it, all shit thrown in that direction considered. So what?

the dev was pretty nasty and soapboxy way before this. very authoritative stance on everything, often wrong with his technical design.

There's always a way: don't like it — don't use it! Like "OMG, how dare anyone ask for donations?!" — okay, what's better: living off donations from those who do that voluntarily or working for an evil corporation that does all the evil by proxy and just extracts its revenue from us to pay them salary?

xe makes 180k(usd) a year. he's not suffering for donations. but yes, if the code works well (and it doesn't) i'd fund the whole project for 6 months out of my own pocket. but the implementation is over-complicated and trivial to bypass.

This particular thing was even originally done in a Fedi-friendly way, allowing links and whatnot through — yeah, it was just checking user agent, which is lame, but so what?

the way it works that caused a lot of the stir was checking for any ua-sig that has mozilla in it which is many browser ua-sig. so spoofing a ua-sig lets you hop the wall easily. it's advertised as "ddos protection" this is not how you deal with ddos in a meaningful way.

In the end it would just get replaced with that abomination "Choose all bicycles! NOW!!! And you can go fuck yourself with your w3m!" — would that be any better? I think not. Yet people keep attacking lesser evil until some devil incarnate takes its place, something that they can't bring down just by shit-smearing it on Fedi. What is the point?

sure this is a lesser evil. but there's no attack here. simply facepalming when i want to visit codeberg and nearly every time it triggers anubis. it's a computer science problem. i could really care less about the anime shit. i've alread got one that serves pictures of programming gods that doesn't persist the mozilla ua-sig pattern