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So HN is still a shit hole, then :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32669838

Gotta love that the first comment is literally “This article is nonsense.” (This sort of thing used to make me angry, these days I just laugh and move on.)

#Linux #PrivilegedPortsMustDie
in reply to Aral Balkan

I have a great workaround for HN stuff! These few lines in my nginx config are wonderful:
if ($http_referer ~ "news\.ycombinator\.com") {<br>  return 400;<br>}<br>

No more HN troubles.
in reply to Aral Balkan

One of the reasons I stopped reading Hacker News.
in reply to Aral Balkan

"...writing your own policies, while strange and esoteric because it uses m4, is straightforward."

Right, 4 files of m4 macros, straightforward. Yup.