[β] BPIP Extension: user info & extra features add-on/extension, Firefox/Chrome

[logfiles]

I am new to MAC OS and I have been struggling to find an answer to my query. I hope someone helps me with the process of getting it activated on my Safari Browser. I am aware I can download Chrome and Firefox and get it installed. I can do that but I don't like them and that is why I am asking this question.

Thanks.

You are going to choose between just downloading one of those browsers you hate, or having to go through a nightmare of searching through different YouTube channels to see if you can actually manage to add chrome or Firefox extensions onto your Safari.

I have no Apple product to test this, but there is a YouTube video taking about adding Chrome extensions to your safari browser. However, you are going to need some specific requirements
How to get Google Chrome Extensions in Safari follow-up video -->> How to PERMANENTLY Add Google Chrome Extensions to Safari

[Bureau]

You are going to choose between just downloading one of those browsers you hate, or having to go through a nightmare of searching through different YouTube channels to see if you can actually manage to add chrome or Firefox extensions onto your Safari.

I have no Apple product to test this, but there is a YouTube video taking about adding Chrome extensions to your safari browser. However, you are going to need some specific requirements
How to get Google Chrome Extensions in Safari follow-up video -->> How to PERMANENTLY Add Google Chrome Extensions to Safari

Thanks for your suggestion. I did went ahead and checked the video. It does looks complicated, found a few articles on the topic. I will look into it and if possible work on it. There is zero guarantee that it will work as the video does say the same. It would have been good to have safari browser extension. If it doesn't work than the last resort for me would be to use Firefox browser which I consider better than Chrome.

[examplens]

Thanks for your suggestion. I did went ahead and checked the video. It does looks complicated, found a few articles on the topic. I will look into it and if possible work on it. There is zero guarantee that it will work as the video does say the same. It would have been good to have safari browser extension. If it doesn't work than the last resort for me would be to use Firefox browser which I consider better than Chrome.

Accept that the creation of BPIP extensions is exclusively on a volunteer basis in order to simplify the use of data for bpip.org
Adapting to each browser, testing, and monitoring updates for each of them, would require a lot of time. It certainly could not remain within the scope of volunteering.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Sorry if this problem or bug has been identified before

I like how the extension archive (Ninjastic.space) adds links of each post/reply. However, there seems to be a problem with the view topic archive link. It appears in some boards and is not there in other boards

For example, this topic in the mining board has it - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5448335.0
This one in the Announcements (Altcoins) board does not have it - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1290358.0

What could be the cause, bpip.org extension or ninjastic.space bug? Could it be that there are some more boards with such a problem, like Announcements (Altcoins) board?

[examplens]

Sorry if this problem or bug has been identified before

I like how the extension archive (Ninjastic.space) adds links of each post/reply. However, there seems to be a problem with the view topic archive link. It appears in some boards and is not there in other boards

For example, this topic in the mining board has it - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5448335.0
This one in the Announcements (Altcoins) board does not have it - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1290358.0

What could be the cause, bpip.org extension or ninjastic.space bug? Could it be that there are some more boards with such a problem, like Announcements (Altcoins) board?

I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but if it comes to "View Archive" in the right corner of every post, next to "report to moderator", I have that option visible in both threads you mentioned. Chrome browser in my case.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but if it comes to "View Archive" in the right corner of every post, next to "report to moderator", I have that option visible in both threads you mentioned. Chrome browser in my case.

I mean the view topic archive link in the top right corner, as shown in the image below. This only appears in topic of certain boards



In the second link that I shared which happens to be a topic in the altcoins Announcements board, the topic archive link is no where to be seen

[LoyceV]

the topic archive link is no where to be seen

Could it be related to the bump button? That changes the code and may not work with the extension. Try a few other topics. I'm not using this extension, so I can't check for myself.

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the topic archive link is no where to be seen

Could it be related to the bump button? That changes the code and may not work with the extension. Try a few other topics. I'm not using this extension, so I can't check for myself.

That's what it's all about. Sections, where bump is enabled, do not have the "view topic archive" option. For example, it is the same with all topics within Service Announcements . Also, all topics within the Service Discussion section do not have a bump button but have a view topic archive.

[Jawhead999]

Bump.

Is there something bad happen to the service? or just a normal temp under development?




Didn't see there was been discussed in the other thread.

[Crypto Library]

Bump.

Is there something bad happen to the service? or just a normal temp under development?




Didn't see there was been discussed in the other thread.

Looks like the discussion has started. Bots are doing DDoS attacks on BPIP.ORG, and as a result we may be facing issues using the BPIP extension. In my case it doesn't show completely down, but the issue happened once it was working but next time again it appears that it is not working. Especially in my case DefaultTrust position is not showing.  

My guess is a DDoS or maybe a hung up process in IIS, but I need to wait for suchmoon to confirm, the commands needed to show resource information like this aren't really available on a shell/terminal user account. Server is still partially accessible on my end though, IIS appears running, but everything is very slow. The 503 error sort of hints towards a resource issue, one way or the other.

Yeah looks like DDOS. Not much I can do about that. As I said in the other thread, the forum is full of deranged trolls with nothing better to do. BPIP is only known or useful to bitcointalkers so no one else would have any interest in bringing it down.

[suchmoon]

Should be ok now, at least for a while until the DDOSing asshole figures out a way to bypass the blacklists.

Sorry about the issues.

[nutildah]

Wow somebody really hates you guys 

I guess that means you're doing something right.

[Vod]

Wow somebody really hates you guys 

I guess that means you're doing something right.

Yep.  These people are spending money or resources on DOSing BPIP instead of doing something they would enjoy.  When you think about it,  DOSing is a compliment.

Suchmoon, in the interim you could create a static front page and refresh it every min or so.   Call it the BPIP Appreciation Event!  Serving a static page will push the abuse to the internet cache network, and barely affect your server.

[suchmoon]

Suchmoon, in the interim you could create a static front page and refresh it every min or so.   Call it the BPIP Appreciation Event!  Serving a static page will push the abuse to the internet cache network, and barely affect your server.

The webserver is unable to serve even static pages at the rate it's being hammered. ~70 million requests per hour. Nor does it make sense to pay for that much bandwidth. I'm working to have these shitheads blocked at the edge before incurring any costs.

[LoyceV]

~70 million requests per hour

I always thought DDoS came from mainly crappy Windows computers, but it can be anything nowadays:

Most DDoS attacks today originate from a hacker-controlled botnet of vulnerable IoT devices. This includes internet connected security cameras, household appliances, smart TVs, home lighting systems, and even refrigerators.

The exponential growth of DDoS attacks is mostly due to the total lack of regulatory control over IoT devices

[nutildah]

Loading great now. They must have gotten bored and moved on.

[fillippone]

Wow somebody really hates you guys  

I guess that means you're doing something right.

Yep.  These people are spending money or resources on DOSing BPIP instead of doing something they would enjoy.  When you think about it,  DOSing is a compliment.

Suchmoon, in the interim you could create a static front page and refresh it every min or so.   Call it the BPIP Appreciation Event!  Serving a static page will push the abuse to the internet cache network, and barely affect your server.

I never got this dDos thing. Is that a ransom? Is this a way for your hosting server to make you buy additional protection? Who is spending money to attack you? And why?
If it had ended right now, they probably ended up losing money. So why bother?

[suchmoon]

Loading great now. They must have gotten bored and moved on.

It has slowed down a bit but they're still trying. We're just getting better at iptables.

I never got this dDos thing. Is that a ransom? Is this a way for your hosting server to make you buy additional protection? Who is spending money to attack you? And why?
If it had ended right now, they probably ended up losing money. So why bother?

It doesn't make any sense, especially the scope of the attack. No one contacted me (or ibminer as far as I know) with any demands. Perhaps someone just wanted us to lose money on bandwidth etc and it kinda worked for the first few hours or so. But (1) we can take the site down and stop incurring any costs - that will inconvenience users but they are already inconvenienced by the DDOS anyway; and (2) once I had some time to figure out firewall setup the site can function with very little extra bandwidth cost... I hope that's worth it for the plonker who's doing this.

[dkbit98]

After recent PowerGlove SMF patch for quoting from locked threads, this option is no longer available in BPIP extension.
Some could argue that there is no more need for that anymore, but I think that additional Quote/Copy button can still be useful and faster way of doing this, and it should work just fine with the new patch (with small tweaks).
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5499453.0

[suchmoon]

After recent PowerGlove SMF patch for quoting from locked threads, this option is no longer available in BPIP extension.
Some could argue that there is no more need for that anymore, but I think that additional Quote/Copy button can still be useful and faster way of doing this, and it should work just fine with the new patch (with small tweaks).
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5499453.0

The extension checks if a "Quote" button exists, and if it doesn't - creates "Quote to clipboard". So now obviously all posts in locked threads have "Quote" buttons and this no longer works. I'll think of something else. I can either use some other way to determine if the thread is locked, or perhaps inject the "Quote to clipboard" button in all threads, even unlocked ones.