Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • In security, resilience and disaster recovery discussions with your client, how do you go about threading the needle between “scaring the pants off them” and “she’ll be right mate”?

    When I look around me, the weight of discussion seems to be towards the latter, rather than the former. I could conclude that the client has been getting advice from idiots and charlatans, but that might be considered uncharitable, not to mention potentially career limiting.

    I’ve had to read the riot act on a couple of occasions in my 40 year career, whilst it gets the job done, it’s never fun.

    What is your winning strategy to get the client to go, oh, Oh, ooooh, fuck, without running a mile?




  • JavaScript is often used in modern websites to actually render content, as-in, generate what you see on the page. Blocking access is possible if you don’t have JavaScript enabled, but it’s rare. More likely it’s just not showing content because it’s not there.

    Disabling JavaScript in and of itself is not something I understand as a viable way to interact with the internet.

    You are better off anonymizing your browser. You can do this by launching separate instances without any profile in incognito mode and only use it on one site before closing it down.

    You can also automatically “crawl” websites using tools like headess Chrome and Puppeteer. No doubt there are websites that will do this for you, for a fee.

    Ultimately, JavaScript is a programming language, nothing more, nothing less.



  • This will not work. It sounds great, it sounds plausible, even realistic at some level, but this will not work.

    Here’s why.

    The bot operator has more money than you do. If the efficiency of one bot decreases on one website, they’ll throw another bot at it, rinse and repeat until your website stops responding because it’s ground to dust.

    Meta bots are good at doing this, hitting your site with thousands of requests a second, over and over again.

    Meta is not alone in this, but in my experience it’s the most destructive.

    Source: One of my clients runs a retail website and I’ve been dealing with this.

    At the moment the “best” - least worse is probably more accurate - “solution” is to block them as if they’re malicious traffic - which essentially is what they are.


  • I have been making a weekly podcast about amateur radio since 15 May 2011. It started life as “What use is an F-call?” and in 2015 was renamed “Foundations of Amateur Radio”. I’ve made over 700 episodes so far.

    Starting in the wonderful hobby of Amateur or HAM Radio can be daunting and challenging but can be very rewarding. Every week I look at a different aspect of the hobby, how you might fit in and get the very best from the 1000 hobbies that Amateur Radio represents.

    It’s available as audio, text, email, RSS, YouTube and Morse code and can be found on many podcast platforms. It’s also available on amateur radio repeaters, as eBooks and on lemmy.radio and it can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.

    More info: https://podcasts.vk6flab.com/

    Feel free to ask questions.

    Onno (VK6FLAB)