💥PoW! Bot Deterrent, blog comments updates

It's been a while, I don't have much to say, other than I recently updated some of my older projects:

💥PoW! Bot Deterrent

  • About a year ago, I had hastily modified this to require all the static assets to be served from the same domain, in order to satisfy a Content Security Policy (CSP).
  • Unfortunately, this broke 3rd party embedding use cases including my blog comments system.
  • I also forgot to fully update the docs and example project, so it became a lot less usable. Sorry about that.
  • I started getting bug reports about GrapheneOS users not being able to pass the bot deterrent.

As of now all those issues should be fixed.

I changed it so now there are two ways to use it, either with everything on the same domain, data-pow-bot-deterrent-static-assets-path, or with the static assets downloaded from the separate bot-deterrent domain, data-pow-bot-deterrent-static-assets-cross-origin-url.

I also updated all of my apps that use the 💥PoW! Bot Deterrent:

I publish multi-architechture docker images for each of these to docker hub, so if you want to use the binaries that way, you can:

https://hub.docker.com/r/sequentialread/pow-bot-deterrent

https://hub.docker.com/r/sequentialread/comments

https://hub.docker.com/r/sequentialread/picopublish

https://hub.docker.com/r/sequentialread/pow-bot-deterrent-rp/tags