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Question regarding static site hosting. I've been looking for options outside #GitHub Pages. #Codeberg has pages but it's in maintenance mode due to lack of developers, so I'm not sure about adopting it long term. I have a #Cloudflare account with pages, but it's kind of a pain to update. I'd prefer the "#git => pages" workflow similar to Codeberg or GitHub.

Any personal recommendations? Boosts are appreciated.

There is something odd about firefox on my desktop in that any site which has Cloudflare in front of it throws up the 'Verify you are human' screen. I fail to prove I am human every single time.

However, if I paste the URL into a private window, the site opens without issue and without the challenge.

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#cloudflare also seemd to be blocking a fair number of the web search requests from the "agent" VM. What's interesting is the agent detected this, explained the problem and went on to try something else. It didn't just fail.

As I said, watching it attempt pseudo-reasoning in trying to accomplish a task is more compelling than spicy autocomplete chatbot behavior.

It is still at the eager but untrained intern stage of doing things though.

when I see a #cloudflare interstitial that says "Verify you are human by completing the action below" I mentally xlate it to "Verify you care enough about this site's content to jump through this hoop".

Increasingly my answer is NO.

As long as #GDPR is taken into account, I think that pay-per-crawl might be a positive and constructive solution developed by companies like #Cloudflare, to solve the added cost of dealing with the increasing problem of uncompensated/for-profit webscraping in the era of generative AI.

Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
blog.cloudflare.com/introducin

More evidence that #Cloudflare free tier is most excellent. I see fewer secrets being "stolen" from my systems 😂

All pumped into Cloudflare zones in my account via the API

So Cloudflare+Caddy+Flask+Fail2Ban is quite a nice WAF/noise-to-signal manager 👍

„Es wird bestätigt, dass Sie ein Mensch sind. Das kann einige Sekunden dauern". Nein. Das will ich nicht lesen, brauche diesbezüglich auch keine externe Einschätzung, deswegen kommen Sites, die diese Funktion vor einem Besuch in solcher Manier ausspielen ab sofort auf die Sperrliste 🤷‍♂️ Vielleicht schau ich in einem Jahr noch mal vorbei, aber eher nicht, denn bisher habe ich alle einmal aufgegebenen Services entweder gar nicht vermisst, oder vergleichbaren Ersatz gefunden 🙂 #cloudflare #internet

#Cloudflare just started returning 400 errors to prevent me from downloading pictures from a website with a download picture button. The website can do jack all to stop it, because they use Cloudflare.

But apparently Cloudflare is improving their countermeasures to prevent you from escaping your web browser.