Access seems pretty strict
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403 Forbidden
You are unable to access this site.
Sorry, you are not allowed to access tcrf.net right now.
If you are using a VPN, try disabling it first. We block many VPNs because of abuse.
If that does not work, the block may be due to one of the following reasons:
You are connecting using a network we have blocked.
Your connection is still using a VPN or proxy (incl. Apple Private Wi-Fi, CloudFlare relays, etc.)
You are a badly-behaving or unwelcome bot (ChatGPT, bingbot, yandex, etc.)
You are using a badly-behaving extension (eg. Imagus, etc) that is trying to load every single version of a file in the background
If you were able to view pages before, and this error message has suddenly appeared in place of what you were expecting, make sure you are not running any extensions or tools that are attempting to download everything at once. It is possible you were manually blocked, and it might be removed soon. If not, well, sorry.
If this page always apppeared, there is likely not a lot you can do. If you are using a VPN, turn off your VPN and try again.
Sorry for the trouble. We have been under a long-running DDoS attack.
403 Forbidden is just the modern version of blowing into the cartridge.
That's weird, I can connect just fine over mullvad.
I'm on Mullvad and got blocked.
30 out of 34 comments are about the content blocking.
Only four comments are about the content of the article, and none of them really go into depth.
This has been at the top of HN all day. If people can't see it, what gives?
People who can see the article can see that it's incredibly mid and not worth commenting on.
But for people who can't see the article, it could be anything! For all they know, they're being kept out of the greatest content of all time!
From my logging, most people can access it just fine.
As for "what gives", I have no idea. The article itself isn't interesting and doesn't contain much of value; the "game" itself is what is interesting, but that's not what the article is there to cover.
So my guess is it's just only the people who can't see it, because for others there's not really much to discuss. I don't know why this was even posted here, to be honest.
Here’s a nice YouTube video about GameBoy WorkBoy; a hardware addon and software productivity apps for the game boy,’unreleased and recently recovered https://youtu.be/1Y98jj3Kn84?si=dMII3mTmeDI0XrCn
Sorry if it’s in the article, I can’t access it either
Blocking Apple iCloud privacy is pretty extreme.
It isn’t blocked. It is on for me and the site loaded fine.
It was at the time. Now it’s loading fine.
In the 403 screen it specifically called out iCloud privacy.
It’s basically “give me your IP address before you can continue so we can better data mine you”
Yeah, the community run TCRF wiki is banning VPNs just so they can mine your data along with the luxurious $400/mo they're getting from Patreon. And not because they're constantly being besieged by rampant bots that they have to resort to such drastic measures.
Why not use a captcha or turnstile?
I don’t know anything about TCRF or what they do as their website blocks me. I do see trackers from multiple big corporations on tcrf.net.
What bots are using Apple Private Relay?
This is fascinating to me, because you just said you can't see it, but also that there are "trackers from multiple big corporations". Can you tell me what those are?
I ask primarily because we explicitly don't use any trackers, to a degree I actually pride myself on running a website that doesn't contact anything else:
https://mini.xkeeper.net/private/C58L77azpY.png
The sole exceptions are YouTube embeds, afaik. I even switched out the MediaWiki and CC badges to be local.
uBlock Origin shows nothing out of the ordinary but Youtube, Google and Doubleclick, so Google, Google and Google, and I assume all of those are due to the embed.
If you mean the block page, yes, that's just the YouTube embed. You'll see the same results on any wiki page that has a YouTube embed for the same reason; it's not tracking or anything I have control over (other than outright not having YouTube embeds). But I think if anyone has concerns over that, they're better addressed at the local-user level by disabling all unauthorized iframes.
On the “ Sorry, you are not allowed to access tcrf.net right now” page I get tracked by Google, YouTube and DoubleClick according to the report by Safari.
I also have 924 kilobyte of data stored on my device after visiting tcrf.net without any consent.
The original "work from anywhere" setup, as long as anywhere had two AA batteries.
Anywhere with enough ambient light.
When I try to share this page on iMessage it unfurls the link as "LLM / AI Standard Test Page" so I guess I won't share it!
You can choose to display the text of the link,
instead of letting your device’s defaults decide who you are,
and then telling all of us about it.
yes, amazing complement to a super rare non-release (but protoype) exists.
