Tech people have done this for years ... now it's hitting the "mainstream".

I rarely post this, I usually just let things go. But quoting from the guidelines[0]:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

It may be true, and it's in the news, but I don't see how it "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Quoting Cervisia :

> robots.txt. This is not the law

In Germany, it is the law. § 44b UrhG says (translated):

(1) Text and data mining is the automated analysis of one or more digital or digitized works to obtain information, in particular about patterns, trends, and correlations.

(2) Reproductions of lawfully accessible works for text and data mining are permitted. These reproductions must be deleted when they are no longer needed for text and data mining.

(3) Uses pursuant to paragraph 2, sentence 1, are only permitted if the rights holder has not reserved these rights. A reservation of rights for works accessible online is only effective if it is in machine-readable form.

-- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45776825

Its the law pertaining to copyright. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_urhg/englisch_ur... ... and that's only in Germany.

If what you're protecting with robots.txt isn't copyright-able, then you'll need to find another legal means.

There is no way that you can sue the people responsible for DDoSing your system. Even if you can find them ... and you won't ... they're likely as not either not in your jurisdiction (they might be in Russia, or China, or Bolivia, or anywhere) and they will have a lot more money than you.

People here on HN are laughing at the UKs Online Safety Act for trying to impose restrictions on people in other countries, and yet now you're implying that similar restrictions can be placed on people in other countries and over whom you have neither power nor control.

As always, never, ever trust an organisation with anything you care about.

Always, always have backups.

Always.

Prioritising the request people make that they can easily move to a new device, over the security that it offers?

Links:

Apple recovery contact:

    - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102641
    - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102608
    - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/118574

iPhone Stolen Device Protection:

    - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/120340

giffgaff lost phone:

    - https://help.giffgaff.com/en/articles/233996-i-lost-my-phone-what-should-i-do

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/mobiles/steps-to-take-befo...

Check whether any two factor authentication apps you use support backup, and plan how you will regain access to accounts that require them.

That was posted elsewhere, but links to that site don't work on HN, hence the wall of text.

Some of the comments posted in response on the other site may be copied here.

Quoting from the post:

> "It's our best theory of elementary particles and forces. It's absolutely amazing: it took centuries of genius to discover that the world is like this, and it's absolutely shocking. But nobody believes it's the last word, so we simply call it The Standard Model.

> "But what does this theory say? I'll try to explain part of it in this series of videos. I begin by introducing the cast of characters - the particles.

> "If you have questions, please ask - either here or on YouTube!"

Quoting from the post on Mastodon where I saw this:

"Chromium is like a computer virus. It spreads everywhere, infects every piece of software, makes your computer slow, and sets huge barriers to the improvement of software for intellectual emancipation."

-- https://mathstodon.xyz/@jonmsterling/115416641668491909