Plausible deniability for when it’s discovered her accounts are controlled from Moscow?

“Oh, I must have been hacked cuz weak passwords. That’s why my account sent our classified war plans to Putin.”

So now we finally know what Leela’s “homeworld” is: Planet Smoothie!

You shouldn’t have opened that box! It was clearly for “I.C. Wiener”.

I believe using a CDN would defeat the author’s goal of not being reliant on third-party service providers.

A problem with this approach was that many readers use VPN’s and other proxies that change IP addresses virtually every time they use them. For that reason and because I believe in protecting every Internet user’s privacy as much as possible, I wanted a way of immediately unblocking visitors to my website without them having to reveal personal information like names and email addresses.

I recently spent a few weeks on a new idea for solving this problem. With some help from two knowledgeable users on Blue Dwarf, I came up with a workable approach two weeks ago. So far, it looks like it works well enough. To summarize this method, when a blocked visitor reaches my custom 403 error page, he is asked whether he would like to be unblocked by having his IP address added to the website’s white list. If he follows that hypertext link, he is sent to the robot test page. If he answers the robot test question correctly, his IP address is automatically added to the white list. He doesn’t need to enter it or even know what it is. If he fails the test, he is told to click on the back button in his browser and try again. After he has passed the robot test, Nginx is commanded to reload its configuration file (PHP command: shell_exec(“sudo nginx -s reload”);), which causes it to immediately accept the new whitelist entry, and he is granted immediate access. He is then allowed to visit cheapskatesguide as often as he likes for as long as he continues to use the same IP address. If he switches IP addresses in the future, he has about a one in twenty chance of needing to pass the robot test again each time he switches IP addresses. My hope is that visitors who use proxies will only have to pass the test a few times a year. As the whitelist grows, I suppose that frequency may decrease. Of course, it will reach a non-zero equilibrium point that depends on the churn in the IP addresses being used by commercial web-hosting companies. In a few years, I may have a better idea of where that equilibrium point is.

You’re welcome.

I believe I found it originally via the “distribuverse”… specifically, ZeroNet.

“His behavior was disrespectful and disruptive and in violation of our code of conduct.”

Remember, folks: you have to obey the MSG code of conduct even when you’re thousands of miles away from MSG, and years before going there!

Every time you load the page, the hosts (“Provided by…”) change. Mostly.

Thanks for the info.

Zen: On one machine, Flatpak. On the other, AppImage through AM. Firefox: Mint-maintained version from Mint repo (deb).

I can’t remember the exact differences between Firefox upstream and Mint version. But I believe Mint began maintaining their own deb at a time when upstream Ubuntu was only offering Firefox as a snap, which Mint is against, and Mozilla hadn’t yet begun offering their own deb repo.

https://github.com/imsnif/diskonaut

No package for my distro, I “installed” an AppImage with AM (which is also how I discovered it)

I’ve been using the Firefox mod Zen Browser on Linux Mint. When Firefox released an update in February, my Zen had it the next day. People depending on the “official” Firefox were left waiting over a week, with multiple threads in the forums asking “when is it coming?”

Also when I looked into mods updates for a critical security fix in November, practically all the mods had updated within 24 hours of FF’s update. (Exceptions: Midori and Mercury.) https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2554267&sid=4f140800c5d62939af8e6394514b9aab#p2554267

“Zen is no good if you care about privacy.”

How so?

Used Webkit until 2019, then bought out and now based on Firefox/Gecko.

There are tools to update AppImages, like AM and Gear Lever.

Well, you can get Bottles as an AppImage… unofficially https://github.com/ivan-hc/Bottles-appimage

Personally I’m loving diskonaut. “Graphical” representation but at, ahem, terminal velocity.