Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

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Cake day: January 4th, 2024

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  • I used fail2ban as an anti-scraper strategy for a few months. It helped with the really basic scrapers that only use one or a few IP addresses.

    But then they adapted and started using hundreds or thousands of different IP addresses, each one only making a couple of requests. fail2ban became counter-productive as it slowed my server down - the log files it was monitoring became massive under high load and it needs to scan the log files often to check if an IP has been seen before.

    I’m not saying don’t try it, I’m saying it’s only effective in some situations.











  • I don’t know of any other IDE maker that has the depth and quality of language support that JetBrains offers.

    Honestly, throwing your toys over a modal commit dialog seems a bit misguided when switching to any other IDE is going to involve coping with much bigger changes.

    You have the option of using an old version if the newer ones aren’t to your style. I’m still on the 2023 version of PyCharm, for instance. And the 2020 version of PhpStorm, haha