GameBoy Workboy(tcrf.net)
119 pointsby tosh4 hours ago8 comments
  • dgellow3 hours ago
    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.

    • willXarean hour ago
      403 Forbidden is just the modern version of blowing into the cartridge.
    • free_bip3 hours ago
      That's weird, I can connect just fine over mullvad.
      • MrDrMcCoy3 hours ago
        I'm on Mullvad and got blocked.
  • marcosscrivenan hour ago
    Blocking Apple iCloud privacy is pretty extreme.
    • dmitrygr20 minutes ago
      It isn’t blocked. It is on for me and the site loaded fine.
      • marcosscriven11 minutes ago
        It was at the time. Now it’s loading fine. In the 403 screen it specifically called out iCloud privacy.
    • retired20 minutes ago
      It’s basically “give me your IP address before you can continue so we can better data mine you”
  • willXarean hour ago
    The original "work from anywhere" setup, as long as anywhere had two AA batteries.
    • asdffan hour ago
      Four AA
    • retired16 minutes ago
      Anywhere with enough ambient light.
  • Asfand2099an hour ago
    The "you might be a bot" bullet point now explicitly listing ChatGPT is a pretty good snapshot of where the web is in 2026. For years sites optimized for search engine crawlers; now they're increasingly optimizing against AI crawlers. It's a fundamental shift in who site operators see as their largest source of unwanted traffic.
    • montagan hour ago
      Where are you seeing this?
      • iamjackg44 minutes ago
        It's probably a bot account that tried to read the article to come up with a reasonable comment, but TCRF likely serves a "you're a bot, go away" static response page when it's accessed by bots. Pretty funny.
        • iamjackg41 minutes ago
          I take that back! It seems to be happening to multiple people using VPNs. My bad. I should have been more charitable.
          • girvo5 minutes ago
            Funnily I think you are still right re. the specific account under discussion.
          • lxgr38 minutes ago
            There do seem to be annoying false positives, but this particular account really is a bit strange. Months of silence after signing up, and then this non sequitur…
            • rcxdude16 minutes ago
              The style is also very LLM-y, though not a complete slam dunk.
  • calmworm3 hours ago
    Site blocks VPN users.
    • deadbabe3 hours ago
      This is why you should self host your VPN.
      • retired2 hours ago
        Does that not defeat the anonymity aspect?
        • deadbabe2 hours ago
          VPNs even from big public providers have not been a reliable way to protect anonymity for a while now. Use VPNs for cryptographic security and circumventing region control.
        • DANmodean hour ago
          You mean pseudo anonymity, from advertisers mostly?
    • ErroneousBoshan hour ago
      Many of us only like legitimate users, and therefore block VPNs.
      • lxgr38 minutes ago
        What makes a VPN user inherently “illegitimate” in your view?
        • mschuster914 minutes ago
          The problem is the whack-a-mole game with hackers and script kiddies. It used to be the case that banning known colo ASNs was enough to get rid of nuisance by STROs, then there was a flood of hacked routers being used for DDoS that was really annoying to get rid of, and then came "residential IP" VPNs and commercial VPNs, both of which get routinely abused by AI scrapers and frankly, the AI scrapers are a worse enemy than the skiddies of 10 years ago. They ruin everything.

          And you as a site operator can't really tell apart skiddies, griefers, AI scrapers and legitimate users apart any more.

  • dbalatero2 hours ago
    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!
  • ant6n3 hours ago
    The linked video seems to provide a much deeper story: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SZcrPM-jDqY&ra=m