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		binaryturtle 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GNU recutils: Plain text database For those who get blocked by gnu.org with a 403 (older Firefox) or an even sillier "Too Many Requests" error (older Safari) need to override their user agents strings to "curl" to make the site load again.

userbinator 18 days ago [–]

need to override their user agents strings to "curl" to make the site load again.

That seems very on-brand for them, as curl's default UA gets blocked by most sites.

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