A couple of days ago i noticed something off with blahaj.zone. I couldn’t see images posted by users on blahaj, so i thought it was a problem on their side.

Well guess fucking what? After 3 days, it was STILL broken, so i opened it and…

Blocked. They fucking blocked blahaj.zone. Actually beyond parody🤦‍♂️ Why? What was the point? there’s trans content literally everywhere on lemmy. what’s next, block them all? So now if i want to see a post by a user on blahaj, i have to turn on my VPN (protonvpn.com is also blocked in saudi, jfc) just to see it. Fuck this place. 🙄

I swear a couple of days ago it worked. This is a mild annoyance (hence the community) but still.

It’s so over guys, MBS said no more 196 😔

  • fxomt@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I can run it for you if you want. I’ll post the results here

    It’ll be faster for me since I’m in the country itself

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 days ago

      EDIT: This won’t work. You can “ping” blahaj successfully, but only because it redirects to a gov page, and not an error. I’ll have to revise the script because of that.

      Globalping has an HTTP method, which I use in the script:

      globalping http $instance from $COUNTRY

      I then use ripgrep to check if the HTTP response contains the string “Blocked URL”, as you can see in the script:

      | rg 'Blocked URL'

      The if condition uses the exit code from ripgrep to add $instance from the for loop to the blocked.txt file.

      • fxomt@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Ah, it works for me now. I just ran it with ping instead of globalping, since i had no need to run it with that. And the script didn’t work after i did that, i’m not great at shell-scripting.

        I made a modification that prints the status, but it’s painfully slow to check each site.