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DataWraith

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    Comment #32851673

    Not quite a CAPTCHA, but something similar has actually been done before. The ESP game[1] paired two random people looking at the same image while a timer ticked down. The players …

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    Comment #31974899

    Something similar exists: iabackup[1][2]. It is designed to host an independent copy of (some of) the Internet Archive using git-annex. You tell it how much storage you want to don…

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    Comment #29577333

    I've been looking for software that does this myself, but I don't think it exists. There used to be a project, https://bazil.org/ , that promised to do it. The website is still up,…

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    Comment #28197220

    Was it RancherOS? > RancherOS is the smallest, easiest way to run Docker in production. Every process in RancherOS is a container managed by Docker. This includes system services s…

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    Comment #26778235

    You're probably thinking of the OFFSystem ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem )

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    Comment #20428597

    The obvious way to do it would be to forward a port in your router and then keep a dynamic DNS service (DuckDNS, for example) updated with your external IP address. As for networks…

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    Comment #19184475

    If you don't need minute-by-minute accounting, you might like TagTime [1]. It will pop up a window at random times and ask what you're doing. Over the course of several weeks it ca…

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    Comment #18886874

    > Turns out, every function in NetHack seems to find a way to call random(), causing the RNG state to drift. I recently stumbled across the concept of splittable RNGs , which works…

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    Comment #17745148

    That sounds a lot like IA.BAK [1], a git-annex backed attempt at making a backup copy of the Internet Archive. [1] https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.... E…

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    Comment #17432769

    They actually relented on that. You can now register "Individual" accounts that don't need a tax ID: https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/resources/vat-overview

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    Comment #3215074

    You're thinking of Arthur C. Clarke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws