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I've seen this type of thing with OsmAnd too. My hypothesis is that someone messed up when drawing the map, and made the offramp an extension of the highway. But I haven't actually verified this.

Yo, we decided to build a dam in the creek behind your house. We're not sure what the impact will be on your house and backyard, so watch out. You've got three days, construction has already started.


It was gonna cost 1 million of your tax dollars to build the levee protecting your house, but we're saving you money by building it out of sticks. We'll send a dude out to throw a few more on every few days.


7 years to estimate the impact? I'm guessing it would take a professional an afternoon.


About the same time it'd take me to build Twitter.

Let's hope the beavers allocate sufficient funding to maintain the dam.


I'm not driving, officer, I'm traveling!


Except the ads don't show up anywhere "on the internet", they only show up on the photo editing site.


The photo editing site was "MetaAI", the display site was Instagram.

They may have the same parent, but are distinct entities.


The author mentioned closing their VPN port so people would stop trying to break in, but this also cut off the author's access.

Tailscale allows you to connect to your home network without opening a port to allow incoming connections.


Just learn to program if you are interested in it. Tech skills in general are a good investment right now. And if AI does get good enough to replace your programming job, it will soon replace all other jobs too.


Jira, but that's not saying much... somehow in 2024 the world's most popular ticketing system doesn't have all the bugs ironed out of its editor. I'm constantly running into little issues with the formatting in descriptions and comments


Not surprising since in 2024 the world's most popular word processor also doesn't have all the bugs ironed out, even though it exists much longer.


Have you tried Linear? It's such a breath of fresh air compared to Jira.


Scary. You can't just floor it and get out of there when someone threatens you. Same would apply for other imminent dangers like floods or fires. When the car decides to stop, there's nothing you can do except wait for it to change its mind or run away on foot.

On the other hand, we can hope that self-driving cars make streets safer for pedestrians and protesters by obeying speed limits, always watching the road, and never driving aggressively/threateningly even when antagonized.


72 requests per day _per user with a naive feed reader_. This is a small personal blog with no ads that OP is self-hosting on her own hardware, so blocking all this junk traffic is probably saving her money. Plus she's calling attention to how feed readers can be improved!


My reason for smacking stuff down is that I don't want to see it in my logs. That simple.


Even if they had 1000 feed readers which would be a massive amount for a blog, if you can't scale that cheaply, that's on you.

As I pointed out, her blog and rate limiting are an extreme edge case, it would be silly for anyone to put effort into changing their feed reader for a single small blog. It's bad product management.


Of course she can. It's static. She doesn't want and I understand. She's signaling their clients an standard call to say "I think you already have read this, at lest ask me first when this changed the last time".


If you choose to run a poorly implemented rss feed and not scale it cheaply you lose any sympathy from me.


So long as you know what If-Modified-Since is, and use it, you can have all or none of the sympathy you want.


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