My goals for this firewall were mostly to provide better robot blocking and perhaps some more powerful DDoS protection than my Raspberry Pi 3 web server is capable of delivering. I still have to do some testing before I will know if my new firewall actually provides either of those, but at least I now have the additional ability to run multiple physical web servers on my LAN. Exploring that should be fun, and fun is a very important component of running a home web server.
Not my article. Just sharing.
All this effort to block clankers? Absolutely worth it fuck clankers.
I absolutely love the term clankers. It’s the perfect blend of dystopian cyberpunk and the very real threat of AI.
It seems goofy to me — I wish we had collectively picked a term with more oomph.
I’m struggling to come up with an alternative though.
I’m still trying to make ‘sloppers’ happen. Perfectly describes the lack of thought that goes into what they produce.
I like ‘sloppers’ as a term for the morons distrubing and consuming the shit that the clankers are excreting.
Stealing a slur from Star Wars and engaging in traditional name calling to show we disapprove of uncreative slop.
We can’t even think of an original term. We can’t think of a novel way to shit on AI. We just copy what everyone else is doing to make fun of the plagiarism machine.
No no - it’s not plagiarism; it’s standardization.
403 error. Congrats, you built a broken system of false-positives.
This page isn’t loading for me.
found the bot
I’m getting a 404 error, using Cloudflare DNS, who ironically has the best commercial clanker protection in the world, otherwise half the world’s internet wouldn’t use them
Bot
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Opnsense > pfsense
The fact that I have to go through a fucking purchase page, even though pfsense is free (for now), is sketch as hell. First step in their inevitable enshittification.
Opnsense is funded by European non-profits, and is has a better UI
Not to mention they tried running a disinformation campaign against OPNsense for a few years, which was resolved in court.
Also they implemented a WireGuard module that after a review upstream on FreeBSD was found to be completely hocus.
And then you have to fill a block list with something like https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker
Aka “how to harm marginalized folks” and prevent them from accessing your content too
