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Antenna Abuse

Antenna allows re-submission of entries with new timestamps, because the author may wish to update a post or remove it. It also allows a feed to contain entries from other top level domains, which one could argue is not a good idea. This is on purpose though I can't recall what my rationale for it was.

These two things in combination has sadly allowed an actor to abuse Antenna lately. It started out with them just changing the title of one of my entries. I thought of it as a joke and didn't have time to investigate further at the time.

However now said actor has made a copy of Antenna's own atom feed, changed the update time on all entries to a time too far in the past to be included on Antenna, and then submitted it. The result is an empty Antenna (except for Farkle, which has re-submitted their own feed).

I will manually re-submit all feeds that were present just a day or so ago.

I don't see how this can be interpreted as a joke. This is straight up abuse.

-- CC0 ew0k, 2024-07-15