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Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor

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603 points scalewithlee | 1 comments | 25 Apr 25 13:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.279s | source
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mrgoldenbrown ◴[25 Apr 25 14:29 UTC] No.43793965[source]▶
Everything old is new again :) We used to call this the Scunthorpe problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

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greghendershott ◴[25 Apr 25 15:37 UTC] No.43794722[source]▶
See also: Recent scrubbing US government web sites for words like "diversity", "equity", and "inclusion".

Writing about biology, finance, or geology? Shrug.

Dumb filtering is bad enough when used by smart people with good intent.

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1. netsharc ◴[25 Apr 25 23:17 UTC] No.43799379[source]▶
Huh, quick tell one Musk's DOGE l33t h4ck3ers about reverse proxies, and put all government sites behind one, that looks for those words and returns an error... Error 451 would be the most appropriate!

For bonus, the reverse proxy will run on a system infiltrated by Russian (why not Chinese as well) hackers.