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The raw materials are cheap: It's mostly just quartz, which is the most abundant mineral on earth. The problem is actually making chips. The machines use to make modern integrated …

Most people want to avoid looking like AI, ut what if you want to blend in with the robot uprising. I present ⸻ the U+2E3B dash.

Very predictable: If Facebook (or any other social media site) showed you what you wanted to see --- stuff from your friends --- you would be satisfied and leave. ... but Facebook …

This. A physical safe provides something that you can't do digitally: It's hard, but not impossible to get in without credentials. On the internet, it's either: Public for anyone i…

I doubt that's going to be much of a problem: As long as the average power is within rated limits. It takes time for coils to heat up and cool down: The worst thing you can do for …

That would work, but I'd really prefer not to force users to run JavaScript, break RSS readers and slow down page loads (round trips are expensive). Adding a link maze to a random …

> Do they do any harm Not to me, but I've known people who have had their sites DDoSed out of existence by the scrapers. On the internet, it's often the smallest sites with the sma…

The problem is that believable content doesn't compress well. You aren't going to get anywhere close to that 1:1000 compression ratio unless it's just a single word/character repea…

It's often one IP (v4!) per one request. It's insane how many resources are being burned on this stupidity. Part of the reason I did this is to get good numbers on how bad the prob…

> The client can still send a flood of correctly-formed requests This is possible with any server. It's a known exploit and very difficult to fully mitigate: https://en.wikipedia.o…

Sorry about that, stupid mistake on my side. I've fix the version on the server, an you can just edit the line to "pthread_detach(thread);" The snprintf() is only part of a status …

My bad. It's fixed now. (and yes, the gcc suggested fix is the right one.)

The law does not mandate cookie banners. Cookie popups are malicious compliance by advertising and analytics companies to continue spying. The real solution is to tighten what coun…

Except it's not tracking. Remembering user preferences is the original goal of cookies, and doesn't come with any legal requirements. The law is (paraphrasing) "You must use cookie…