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1. admin de gnusocial.net (administrator@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 16:46:50 UTC admin de gnusocial.net

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   • Alexandre Oliva
   @lxo Not only that I "tolerate" GNU as an OS name, but I do welcome it.
   But if you insist on making an enormous number of concurrent accesses from any IP, it will be blocked eventually.
   I can see what you are referring to at the logs, and yes, there are lots of IP addresses blocked.
   • Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 16:46:52 UTC Alexandre Oliva
     @administrator, did you by any chance start blocking https requests based on User-Agent a few weeks ago, or tightened preexisting rules?
     I had been unable to access with abrowser for all this time, and could only access over text-based browsers over tor after my home IP got blocked. at first I didn't realize I was getting an unusual error; then I thought it was some abrowser upgrade that broke something; then I upgraded another machine that still worked and it kept on working; then I verified all TLS- and abrowser-related files on this machine and found nothing unusual; finally, I realized both browser profiles in which it failed had a modified User-Agent (to have GNU in the operating system name, rather than the misnomer Linux), but the one in which it worked didn't. once I disabled User-Agent overriding, it started working again. so now I configured the browser to lie about the operating system name when contacting gnusocial.net, and I'm back!
     if my diagnosis is correct, could your User-Agent blocking rules please tolerate GNU as the operating system name? TIA,