Notes for May 24–31

Today I realised that I could just spend the day doing essentially nothing and that nobody would hold it against me (at least in Western nations), so… I might well do just that, with a few caveats: Wi-Fi FalloutSomething very weird happened after I published my notes on last week’s Wi-Fi tweak – it made it to Hacker News (a day or so after I submitted it myself, because, as usual, most of my self-submitted links still appear to be shadow-banned despite 30K+ karma–and no, I don’t understand that either), and it was very popular among the usual band of armchair networking experts. But then something really weird happened: I got an alert from Cloudflare that the lowercase-rewrite worker I’d deployed as a fallback for incorrect linking was exceeding the free-tier limit (100,000 runs, if I recall correctly), which made me curious enough to dig into the analytics: The control chart doesn't lie. Those orange dots are not normal. I have CF’s anti-bot crawling settings active, I turned on…