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do you have to act like such a dick?
Strange, that was what I was thinking.
I get it, I really do. You don't like change, you don't like the new interface, you didn't like the vBulletin interface either, it's not all perfect on your iPhone, and so on.
I mean... your comment:
I've just had Cloudflare interrupt proceedings with a "checking your browser before proceeding. DDOS protection by Cloudflare" screen. What is this shit?
WTF do you think it is? It says... right there and you are a web dev, you know exactly what it is. So who is being a dick here?
I take the time to explain, you know just in case you really don't know what it is and because other people who might genuinely not know what it is are reading... and you just come back with quips as if there's some flaw and just to whinge about something else too (Persona), without even conceding there's damn good reasons for a WAF to exist and do it's job.
And you know this stuff, you must. You would be crap at your job if you didn't... and I know you're not crap at your job because you've shared stuff you've worked on and it's good. Ergo, if you know this stuff, then this is all posturing and it must just be you being a dick.
That's truly how I read your posts. And perhaps I'm wrong... but it doesn't feel like it.
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OK, yes, I was being colloquial. I swear a lot. It doesn't mean anything. What is this shit? meant "why am I getting this when I'm not doing any of the things I would expect to trigger a DDoS defence" but that takes too long to type.
I am a front-end dev. I specialise only in the things you see and touch, and leave the server stuff to the server experts. My knowledge of hosting infrastructure is general at best, and my knowledge of back-end development is more or less limited to what creates a good front-end (and what doesn't).
Your explanation came across as throwing numbers at me to fob my question off rather than explaining why hitting the homepage once in 10 minutes from a web browser behind a seriously well-defended firewall might get picked up, and why the fact that I should be coming in with valid authentication credentials still isn't enough to convince it that I am real. I was going to write that last time but your tone pissed me off.
And you've met me enough times surely to know that if I'm coming back with quips that means it's all good?
bq
Christ David, do you have to act like such a dick? I asked a question, the reply didn't make sense, I followed up with a joke. Get off your high horse.