Unless your position that any statement whatsoever made in the second person that isn't a compliment is then an attack?
San Francisco is a magical place where "you are doing X wrong" without slathering on six paragraphs of fake kindness constitutes some kind of personal attack
2) actually, this particular mitigation is very clearly stopping all the unusual patterns of POST request attempts I can see (it's not usually a busy server)
3) I know it is not the only mitigation that is necessary
4) … so it isn't the only mitigation I have applied
5) I am not working under a false sense of security, and I know it is temporary
6) I am not an idiot, and I am working on patching this machine, but this particular server has a unique and complicated configuration and needs a bespoke build
7) I have been prioritising much more serious risks for other people, all day, for no pay
Sorry dang but I had a wider point to make there and I'm not really going to apologise this time. The rudeness is only part of what needed to be responded to.
Also I have survived on too much coffee and probably too many chocolate biscuits. So actually, sorry, on reflection :-) What a day.
Please don't cross into personal attack.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's no personal attack here.
Unless your position that any statement whatsoever made in the second person that isn't a compliment is then an attack?
San Francisco is a magical place where "you are doing X wrong" without slathering on six paragraphs of fake kindness constitutes some kind of personal attack
"You're working on a false sense of security and encouraging others to do the same" was needlessly personal.
You can make your substantive points without that, both in San Francisco and elsewhere.
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Well, OK then:
1) you're being rude, just stop it and get a grip
2) actually, this particular mitigation is very clearly stopping all the unusual patterns of POST request attempts I can see (it's not usually a busy server)
3) I know it is not the only mitigation that is necessary
4) … so it isn't the only mitigation I have applied
5) I am not working under a false sense of security, and I know it is temporary
6) I am not an idiot, and I am working on patching this machine, but this particular server has a unique and complicated configuration and needs a bespoke build
7) I have been prioritising much more serious risks for other people, all day, for no pay
8) again, to reiterate, you're rude.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sorry dang but I had a wider point to make there and I'm not really going to apologise this time. The rudeness is only part of what needed to be responded to.
Also I have survived on too much coffee and probably too many chocolate biscuits. So actually, sorry, on reflection :-) What a day.
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