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Shellban

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    It looks decent on my 1920x1080p window running on a 4K monitor, but I have overlapping problems on my M1 Macbook.

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    > So you have a fear of rejection? Well, may be true for some people. For me, it is a matter of wasting my time when I have other things I could accomplish.

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    The big one is the fact that you will likely be ignored by a large host of them. Even with modern spam filters, a lot of unsolicited messages are simply a waste of packets. Odds ar…

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    Assuming that we recover from the damage being done now. As one example, a friend of mine has remarked that large corporations will benefit from the current AI-induced reality of n…

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    Comment #48547243

    Mr. Enger echos a lot of thoughts that I (and a lot of people on these forums) seem to have. We can still make an attempt to remake what we love, with personal websites and self-ho…

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    It is a way to block bots, similarly to Cloudflare or Google's captcha. The Arch Linux website uses it.

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    Comment #48545248

    Or "you, but three years from now" in some cases. Logging my random OS changes or what were at the time "one-time shell scripts" in my journal has proven invaluable in some cases.

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    Comment #48518092

    Well, I seem to have been spared, purely because I have not turned on one of my laptops in a week. Like a few people here, I should probably be rethinking how I use the AUR.

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    > These are the people writing React monstrosities for government benefit websites, and testing them on fast iPhones and fast 4G, without realizing that every page load for actual …

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    Comment #48478180

    I like JavaScript-light websites just as much as anyone (my own website works on the same principle). However, I do wonder how much of the increased traffic has to do with AI agent…

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    Ecclesiastes is an interesting one. It goes chapter by chapter, trying to find meaning in life through process of elimination, trying education, hedonism, labor, and wealth. While …

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    I am just hoping that the cost will eventually go down in a few years, and we will be able to start homelabbing again. My server drives are not going to last forever...

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    Sometimes I wonder if we should consider using some sort of a hardware key going forward, like a Yubikey or similar product. Physical devices are fairly easy to understand, and a s…

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    https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-ascii

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    I even added this as an option in my Grub menu.

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    *whistles innocently*

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    Counterpoint: all of these things are built right into the user's browser, and browser vendors independently work to avoid attacks across the userbase without any intervention from…

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    Comment #48253027

    The Google Chrome team would like a word with you.

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    It depends. A lot of websites refuse to display some stuff without JavaScript, and of course online payments insist on JavaScript (to the point that trying to push through without …