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lwansbrough ◴[] No.45010657[source]
We solved a lot of our problems by blocking all Chinese ASNs. Admittedly, not the friendliest solution, but there were so many issues originating from Chinese clients that it was easier to just ban the entire country.

It's not like we can capitalize on commerce in China anyway, so I think it's a fairly pragmatic approach.

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sugarpimpdorsey ◴[] No.45010787[source]
There's some weird ones you'd never think of that originate an inordinate amount of bad traffic. Like Seychelles. A tiny little island nation in the middle of the ocean inhabited by... bots apparently? Cyprus is another one.

Re: China, their cloud services seem to stretch to Singapore and beyond. I had to blacklist all of Alibaba Cloud and Tencent and the ASNs stretched well beyond PRC borders.

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johnisgood[dead post] ◴[] No.45011573[source]
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lmz ◴[] No.45012086[source]
> be a hero and die a martyr

I believe it's "an hero".

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mnw21cam ◴[] No.45012176[source]
Uh, no, it's definitely not. Hero begins with a consonant, so it should be preceded by "a", not "an".
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nailer ◴[] No.45012316[source]
Welcome to British English. The h in hero isn’t pronounced, same as hospital, so you use an before it.
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1. nutjob2 ◴[] No.45012692[source]
That's not right. It's:

a hospital

an hour

a horse

It all comes down to how the word is pronounced but it's not consistent. 'H' can sound like it's missing on not. Same with other leading consonants that need an 'an'. Some words can go both ways.