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My friend took out a loan to pay a website troll $45,000

A friend of mine runs a beauty brand on Shopify. Last month he called me, shaken. An “ADA troll” had filed an $80,000 lawsuit against him — over a handful of technical things on his website.

  • Shopify owner received $45,000 settlement from website troll
  • Trolls scan thousands of sites for easy targets with defects
  • Engineer created tool to alert website owners to technical issues

Fixing Loki Regex Pipeline Stage Failures on Nginx Logs

Originally published on kuryzhev.cloud Your Loki dashboard shows the raw nginx access log fine — but every label query returns zero results, and nobody notices until the ingesters start OOMing.

  • Loki’s regex pipeline stage fails on Nginx logs, causing zero results for label queries
  • Issue often arises from regex mismatches due to log format inconsistencies
  • Fix by aligning regex with actual Nginx logformat and optimizing pipeline stages

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