New release of Django-Blocklist, with a couple user-requested changes: https://pypi.org/project/django-blocklist/1.2.0/
Reminder: If you use dpaste for this kind of thing, your content will be deleted and your IP will be blocked. https://incident.netcraft.com/838/838c04fc58f1/
Feature announcement: the previewing feature for #Markdown and #RestructuredText items is now available for all users. Look for the "Preview" button on items in those formats.
Another piece of the dpaste.com application stack released as an open source #Django component: django-blocklist, an application-layer solution for IP-based blocking.
For the first time, a non-US country tops the IP count in the active dpaste corpus (https://dpaste.com/about):
Update: the styles preview page now shows three different snippets for each style, to give a better idea of how a given style may look with your content. https://dpaste.com/styles
As a #Mercurial fan I was touched to see a dpaste reference in this Atlassian post from ten years ago:
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/software-teams/mercurial-vs-git-why-mercurial
The reference is a "send this diff to dpaste" customization for hg.
The markup for the script seems to have suffered bitrot, and of course Atlassian has since abandoned Mercurial. But still this makes me smile!
LiveCodes is a "feature-rich, easy to use coding playground" that uses dpaste.com for its sharing feature. It's a client-side app that can be hosted on any static file server. Library developers can also use it for documenting and showcasing their products.
Check it out! https://github.com/live-codes/livecodes
Today the site experienced a subsantial distributed spam onslaught (all promoting a "Mass advertising mailing service").
The perp had a very large collection of IPs at their disposal -- at least 3,500 .
The IPs have been blocked and the spam signature has been added to the site's spam detection system.
Carry on!
For dpaste.com's maintenance mode, I decided I didn't want to return an HTTP 5xx response because, well, there's no error on the server, it's just not available. So I chose HTTP 423, "Locked"!
I think this #Pygments theme is the most Halloweeny of the bunch.
https://dpaste.com/styles/#inkpot
(I promise I will not submit a pull request to change its name to "Pumpkin Spice".)
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