jank199x's comments

On: Ask HN: Why so many sites block traffic from Russia?

[jank199x]

Too many bots.

My US East Coast VPS firewall logs are full of Russian and Ukrainian IPs. They are more numerous than Chinese, even.

I'm not sure the people behind them are all Russian and Ukrainian, though. My guess RU/UA IPs are just cheaper and easier to obtain by malicious actors.

AFAIK you better be using VPN living in Russia, anyway. Doesn't Russian govt block a ton of stuff from their side?

[ruslankh → jank199x]

Great explanation, thanks! Speaking of government, the only critical things they blocked are YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. They also blocked some media in Russian, but they are basically propaganda just from other side. All media in English like NYT are freely available.

On: Time to start de-Appling

[jank199x]

https://github.com/restic/restic

not exactly for a "layperson", to be honest, but easy enough for someone familiar with a command line

[NetMageSCW → jank199x]

So entirely unusable by any layperson, or the majori of the population.

[herewulf → NetMageSCW]

Obviously the majority of the population needs to elect better leaders, or failing that, be out in the streets over this. But they aren't. They don't care and there lies the real problem.

On: Beets: The music geek’s media organizer

[jank199x]

I assume lastgenre with canonicalization[0] enabled is what you need, along with count=1 if multiple genres are an issue.

[0] https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/lastgenre.htm...

[adg33 → jank199x]

I think I'm using that already.

Limiting to one genre I don't think will fix it - what I want is to define the allowable values for genre, and then limit to one.

It's probably better with the limit one though!

[HyprMusic → adg33]

Set whitelist to a file path and then add a file with each genre that you want to keep on a new line. You can use the top-level genres in this file to base it off (except the whitelist isn't YAML, just a genre per line): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beetbox/beets/master/beets...

Be sure to enable canonical so it converts the specific genres into their parent genre.

[jank199x → adg33]

There's a whitelist option. Just read the docs, really, lastgenre is very configurable.

On: Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

[jank199x]

I believe Russians have something to say on that, though.

On: A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)

[jank199x]

Are there alternate YouTube frontends (or apps) that emulate Cobalt?

Looks like stable API like that is a perfect candidate for usage in an open source app that replaces the official one.

On: The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog

[jank199x]

There's quite a lot of pure interactive fiction comps, and a lot of viable authoring systems: https://www.ifwiki.org