[bagder]

I already offered the following comments on Aisle

"my experience from working with them on and off for many months now is nothing but good. Skilled, professional engineers without any bureaucracy. They know their stuff, and they've been very good at listening in and adjusting for our needs and wants."

Who am I? I'm Daniel, curl lead developer.

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116807425534711479

[vessenes]

Aren’t you supposed to be on vacation?? Don’t waste it all on HN! :) Hope your summer is going well.

[sylware]

Not to mention, it seems HN started to block login from user agents which are not based on a 'whatwg cartel' web engines... or their security provider loves gogol a bit too much...

(How do I post this messase then, well, my browser is faking a real user agent from some browser using a 'whatwg cartel' web engine)

[hsbauauvhabzb]

Blocking the curl useragent can obviously be worked around, but is probably a net good. This isn’t a conspiracy, HN would be getting spammed by crawlers but they won’t care about legitimate users.

[sylware]

Why are they blocking login on links, lynx, etc, user agents then? Those are not curl user agents.

And I did post this message because I am "techy" enough to know how to fake my user agent string, but normal people using noscritp/basic HTML will be bluntly blocked.

And AI BOTs are certainly using 'whatwg cartel' web engines now. So this fit more than anythiing else 'whatwg cartel' agenda perfectly... how f-ing convenient...

Hopefully HN security provider will stop making love with gogol.