Hmm. This comment and the reply got me thinking... I wonder how many people are erroneously being blocked by CF at any one moment?

It sadly seems impossible to eliminate all the maliciousness without also impacting legitimate users, but it's obviously a low enough number that the various little uproars never really gain momentum.

But thinking about how technical users severely impacted by the situation gives me an idea: a Chrome/FF extension could trivially the various CF block/captcha page HTML, and fire off a ping to a server somewhere with some statistics about ISP, (very) coarse location (eg, capital city resolution), time of day, optionally the website in question... hmm, and maybe the server could have an account/distinction system, so it could let users who cannot access XYZ website they don't want to disclose, how many other users in their area are also unable to access the site...

Hmm. Thinking this through was useful. There are a lot of tricky privacy balances this would need to upset in order to be most practical. And then on top of that the malicious users would probably figure out a way to ruin such a service :/

Wait. Maybe use an invite system with a user tree?

</thinking_out_loud>

(NB: A small footnote that I usually do not /dev/keyboard this badly; I certainly _was_ tired this morning. "Affected by the situation might react"; "could trivially parse"; "disclose, know how many".

It thinks I'm a terrorist or something. My access is denied with

    This website is using a security service to protect 
    itself from online attacks.

(I replied to the parent comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23924503.)

It's blocking me too. I have no issues with other Cloudflare sites however. I wonder what site-specific firewall filters has been triggered.

Could be site individual rules set by the site owner. Maybe they blocked whole countries or regions.

no thunderbolt with amd laptops at the moment

Do you know of any intel based machines that work well with thunderbolt docks and are worth considering?

Very happy with my (5th generation) ThinkPad X1 Carbon running NixOS and connected to a Toshiba Thunderbolt 3 dock. Everything works just perfectly.

Dell XPSs are very good

True, but often you can use type c support.

I'm using a type c plug to run my monitor, USB hub and charge my amd laptop right now

Asus g14

I should specify these are USB-C thunderbolt docks, attached to LG 4K Ultrafine monitors + USB Keyboard and mouse.

The whole USB-C/Thunderbolt split still confuses me so apologies if I'm making terminology mistakes :)

This particular laptop doesn’t have USB-C DisplayPort support either. It does have Power Delivery though, I’ve measured up to 90W.

> This particular laptop doesn’t have USB-C DisplayPort support either.

Which is a real shame, I'm quite determined to have a single cable AMD model for my next laptop. Currently the best lineups for that seem to be Lenovo ThinkPads and Yogas.