Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me

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.

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.

> be a hero and die a martyr

I believe it's "an hero".

Uh, no, it's definitely not. Hero begins with a consonant, so it should be preceded by "a", not "an".

Welcome to British English. The h in hero isn’t pronounced, same as hospital, so you use an before it.

This is wrong.

Unless maybe you're from the east end of london.

I’m not claiming everyone pronounces it that way. But he’s an ero, we need to find an ospital, ninety miles an our. You will find government documents and serious newspapers that refer to an hospital.

Generic American English pronounces the 'h' in hospital, hero, heroine, but not hour.

Same is true for RP English.

Therefore, for both accents/dialects, the correct phrases are "a hotel", "a hero", "a heroine", and "an hour".

Cockney, West Country, and a few other English accents "h drop" and would use "an 'our", "an 'otel", etc.