Rothnargoth's comments

Blocking before the traffic reaches the application servers (what you're doing) is the most effective and cost/time efficient.

It sounds like the bot operator is spending enough on AWS to withstand the current level of abuse reports.

If you really wanted to retaliate, you could try getting a warrant to force AWS to disclose the owners of that AWS instance.

Hope they implement a link shortener on that domain with the endpoint "/deploy/patch/globally/unchecked/<uuid>".

In summary, the OP concluded frontend design has gotten easier though abstracting browser compatibility (i.e. compiled javascript frameworks).

The software stack is a natural phenomenon that adds to web design's complexity. Ever changing and never complacent, it continues to shape new features that weren't conceivable in the past.

"The restaurants in particular are restive, not least because food is already a low-margin business."

Coupled with the recent survey from US Foods that 28 percent of food couriers admit to eating food from their deliveries(1) are some of the reasons for the consolidation in the food delivery industry.

(1) https://www.usfoods.com/our-services/business-trends/2019-fo...

Pretty interesting knowing mosquitoes were weaponized in the past. The irony in the fact this took place in the modern era, and not in medieval times, where they were known for catapulting diseased carcasses.

"Exposure to grass was, surprisingly, associated with higher odds of psychological distress."

I'm guessing it's the constant maintenance of a lawn that stresses people, and in this case, other people's lawns. That or you're a youtuber or streamer, and the constant sound of lawn equipment is driving you nuts.

Sonic customer here, but will try to be neutral. The value proposition was probably the best selling point, and they rarely raise prices. There is a certain satisfaction when the odd piece of Comcast advertisement comes by mail offering 2-3x the price for 1/8 the bandwidth from Sonic. Fiber customers can return the residential gateway and use their own router, which saves you $10/month. You have to agree you understand the implications of loosing remote troubleshooting, but I'm sure HN users are savvy in this department.

Prior to getting symmetrical fiber, I didn't have a clue what all that bandwidth could be used for, but again the value proposition was icing on the cake. Years later I still haven't a clue what all of this bandwidth was for. Imagine a kid on a fieldtrip to a famous chocolate factory imagining swimming in a chocolate fountain. The fountain is real, but you dip maybe one strawberry when you get there.

The only customer support call was easily enough to self fix. I just wanted to know if I had permission to touch the equipment in the outside service panel.

Hopefully, more cities push for municipal broadband. That would be if Comcast would stop suing to stop it.