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Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
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This was the P123 field today at Ninigret. If you want to see cool bike racing, next weekend there is a race at Devens, MA. I’ll be there; you should be there too ;) # cycling # bikeracing # bike # BikeTooter # B2C2
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Guilt Revival: https:// blahg.josefsipek.net/?p=617 # scm # git # vcs
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TIL that there is a spec for encrypting XML elements inside # XML documents. smh https://www. w3.org/TR/xmlenc-core/
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If you are in the Devens, MA area on July 25, feel free to stop by and see people race bikes. Spectating is free as is common for cycling races. The race is on a course that’s a short loop, so the racers will fly past every two-ish minutes. I’ll be there - both helping out and racing - so come and say hi. # cycling # bikeracing # bike # B2C2
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Googling the Un-Googleable and the Hoofbeats of Zebras: https:// blahg.josefsipek.net/?p=616 # concurrency (A guest post by my wife.)
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@ kr1st you are -22 here in FN42 on 6m, trying to call you back now…
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CQ TEST CQ TEST DE W1XM # hamradio # contest
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This hints at the scope of their scraping. Of the last 1M requests, 10.56.12.{109,110,113} seem to be responsible for 93k (based on X-Forwarded-For) but these 3 private IPs have used the 400 public IPs I mentioned previously. IOW, 3 private IPs -> 400 public IPs -> my server It certainly smells like an attempt to make the traffic look more legit by using a large pool of public IPs.
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Alibaba cloud is currently getting a bunch of 401 from me, but the funny (sad?) thing is that the requests they are making: * specify google.com as referrer * use android 10/chrome/mobile/safari user agent * include "X-Forwarded-For: 10.56.14.113, 10.56.14.113" in the headers (the private IP varies a little bit) Of the last 1M requests my server saw, 400 unique client IPs included 10.56.12.109 in…
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More or less same as before, but showing the http status breakdown as well. It is interesting how until I turned it off last October, the volume of requests essentially caused a DDoS but mostly starving other crawlers of requests (which shows up as the increasing number of 500-level statuses).
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(I know, I know... companies were building an "internet" of their own. NSFNET would have lost anyway outside of research at universities. See Internet2.)
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Oh look! More # HamRadio spam! This time, QSOLytics spammed me about their service. I'm guessing they scraped my email address from qrz.com. I'm beginning to think that allowing commercial entities on the internet was a mistake.
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Urgh. I just plotted the http requests per month to one of my subdomains. It is depressing. I had this domain shut down between Oct 2025 and about a week ago - which is likely why the requests dropped significantly. But June 2026 is shaping up to be the highest load month (yes, it is only the 9th!). Today, I put basic auth with a guessable password around the whole domain. We'll see what that'll…
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Grumble, grumble... for a few months now, gmail has been marking my emails as spam *really* often. Have I mentioned? Grumble, grumble.
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Interesting... tonight I received an email about something called "Q5 Worldwide Ham Radio" to the email address that I only use for # POTA . I'd love to know how these people got their hands on it. Why do # hamradio orgs find it so difficult not to share people's info? Edit: I emailed W1DED and until recently he's been accepting list of suggested subscribers assuming that people agreed to it. He…
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MWRA’s website says that Arlington, Bedford, Belmont, Lexington, Waltham, and Winchester use an average of 11.55 million gallons of water/day 🤯. That’s so much water, that if you flooded a football field with it, the water would be as deep as … 10 large bald eagles! # FreedomUnits
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Recently, I did a drive from Massachusetts to Florida and back. I've noticed a few things about the people or places along the way, but the one that really sticks out is... Why are Virginia drivers insane? So many of them seem to weave in and out of traffic with only occasional signalling as if they were in some kind of car race.
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Whenever I hear people waxing poetic about AI for code analysis, I can't help but wonder how good "classic" static analysis would have been if the industry was willing to throw as much compute power at it as it does with AI.
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I just had a great business idea, it involves convincing the FCC to force everyone to use my anti-spam system. I call it... regulatory CAPTCHA. # pun