There are much more tech photos in local news media:

https://rus.delfi.lv/57863/criminal/120091647/foto-video-v-h...

It's likely that the cloud server changed ownership, and the old IP address remains somewhere in the DNS records. Similar cases with different websites are probably numerous.

That's one of the main reasons why I use NixOS (for Windows non-FOSS apps too): the apps have no permissions to self-upgrade, only root can do that.

Mobile is more difficult, the easiest way: buy a Huawei without Google services

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> Github ... account called “volth” ... contributed ... to NixOS

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Volth maintained NixOS Perl subsystem:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/master?after=1c72dc...

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> The obvious denispetrov.com ... programmer ... a New Yorker ... end of a 25-year career and the blog dries up entirely in 2011, so it doesn’t match the place or time

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A Perl programmer: http://web.archive.org/web/20050208095206/http://www.denispe...

Archive.is started in 2012, just after retirement, why these do not match?

Both names are unisex

Assuming Russian looking spelling, Alexandra is a female name and Denis is a male name.

> Why NSA? why not CIA?

Apparently because it runs NSA software (Apache Accumulo) that is hardly used by anyone else

I don't think the "the proper solution" is possible in 2023, and it's not a matter of the size of the money pile.

Google and Facebook were examples of "the proper solutions".

The former is currently inaccessible from China, the latter from Russia.

Their "abuse prevention techniques" have failed.

Sacrificing only Cloudflare DNS users is a much lesser evil compared to outcome of "the proper solutions".

EDNS absence does affect cheap DNS-based CDNs and has to effect on expensive AnyCast CDNs (one of them is CloudFlare CDN).

Amazon’s Cloudfront is anything but cheap, but they too are based on DNS based routing.

They have own Autonomous Systems with own anycast IP addresses.

It is quite expensive for an indie project. Not to mention legal support for compliance in every country of presence. To block 0.x% of visitors coming from CloudFlare is much cheaper for a small project than to go this road.

> They have own Autonomous Systems with own anycast IP addresses.

> It is quite expensive for an indie project. Not to mention legal support for compliance in every country of presence. To block 0.x% of visitors coming from CloudFlare is much cheaper for a small project than to go this road.

I don't buy this. I'm running my own AS and anycast services for £10pm (my ISP are sponsoring my allocations from RIPE).

Also, it feels like Cloudflare's DNS service is more than just 0.x% of the internet....?

£10 GBP a month for a AS with an IPv4+IPv6 subnet + worldwide POPs that allow you to advertise your subnets over BGP? How did you pull that off? I've researched this a while ago and just the IPv4 subnet alone was at least 10x that amount if you are OK with leasing it from less reputable sources.

I didn't say IPv4 :p

You're right, if you've got a legacy internet requirement then that adds another grand a year to your costs. But I disagree that it's "quite expensive for an indie project", especially one that's so popular it needs to run it's own CDN.

"You ask me for an IP address, but you don't ask me with respect".

Respect is optional too. But it is important.