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I wrote a short story about the end of software engineering (charlieharrington.com)
2 points by whatrocks on Dec 27, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


As I wrote a little fictional story about the demise of software engineering myself, I'd love to read your story Charlie, but unfortunately charlieharrington.com needs to review the security of my connection before proceeding. Perhaps if we could fix this one little bit of software engineering broken by CLoudflare it would open the gates to us fixing many more.


Ah, I'm sorry to hear about this issue. I have not encountered it myself nor have I heard about others facing it before. Do you have any suggestions on what I might need to adjust in Cloudflare settings? My SSL/TLS settings have not changed in a very long time. Thanks!


Thanks for sincerely responding.

I honestly wish I knew how fix the problem of Cloudflare blocking Tor.

In the past, voices for Cloudflare have disowned responsibility (for presumably default settings) and claimed it is down to the settings of individual site owners. So, there may be something you can tweak. Not a being a user of their products I have no knowledge, though I wish I could help and would gladly give more constructive suggestions to other's whose sites I find are blocked.

Unfortunately, here on HN there is some resistance to even discussing this problem, so very little intelligent discussion is permitted before it's shut down. As an example, this recent comment today was down-voted without without any reflective or considered response [1]. Threads are often dominated by pro-Cloudflare comments that tend to "victim blaming" or mocking of those who value privacy but are obstructed by Cloudflare.

Feel free to PM me via (see Digital Vagen website), as I'd honestly like to read your article.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=34152355




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