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Yes @ 444 ( https://http.cat/status/444 ). That’s indeed the lightest-weight option. > You have an image on your error page, which some crappy bots will download over and over agai…

I do something quite similar with nginx: # Nothing to hack around here, I’m just a teapot: location ~* \.(?:php|aspx?|jsp|dll|sql|bak)$ { return 418; } error_page 418 /418.html; No…

Exactly. The Atom feed of my website declares an XSLT stylesheet which transforms it to HTML. That way it can be served directly to, and renders prettily by, a web browser (see htt…

Btw, a Tor relay can be relatively lightweight. I run one on a $5/mo VPS (which does many other things). You need 1 GiB of RAM, but a single basic CPU core largely suffices. My rel…

Oh but yes, Firefox (and Chrome) do support XSLT natively! See https://paul.fragara.com/feed.xml as an example (the Atom feed of my website, styled with XSLT). FTR, there’s also XS…

> and directly running it? How much more personally involved can you get? Ms. Farmer is the CEO of BNSF Railway[1], she is the one “directly running it”. Moreover, Berkshire/Buffet…

> My pet theory is the BigCo's are walking a tightrope of model safety and are intentionally incorporating some uncanny valley into their products, since if people really knew that…

Nice username btw ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo

Ironic indeed. For ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip (I didn’t get it at first) The Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in whic…

“Reverse brain drain”, so to say. Well, good for Europe. Like it was good for the USA when (jewish) scientists emigrated there in the 30–40s.

You have a point, for sure; the _whole_ previous century (couple centuries, even) of Japan economical history is one-of-a-kind (as is Argentina’s). However, wtr. “lost decades are …

The “Lost Decades” (1990–2010), during which Japan GDP hardly grew and deflation occured: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades

> I'm positively surprised by some deputies remarks. Not personally surprised, but I agree, they talk sense and understand the matter quite well. Thanks for finding and sharing the…

Vladimir Arnol’d (the famous Russian mathematician) touches on that subject in his essay « Sur l’éducation mathématique » https://smf.emath.fr/system/files/filepdf/Gaz-78-Arnold.pd…

(2015)

I just removed interstital ads.

Thanks for letting me know. That’s not my choice but AdSense. However, I can manually disable ads like this one, I’ll look into it.

I’m glad you like it :-)

Thank you!

Ah, thanks for letting me know! I may have found a fix. I previously applied CSS `overscroll-behavior: contain` on , it seems it also needs to be set on (see https://developer.mozi…

Using a lightweight PWA (progressive web app) is also an option: https://FreeSolitaire.win (self-plug). Doesn’t generate unwinnable games[1] & detects dead-ends. Works offline afte…

That’s a fun variation of crosswords! I like it. Btw, a self-plug, for the polyglots out-there: https://paul.fragara.com/cw.html Poly -alphabets crosswords, mixing Latin and Cyrill…

They are missing (for me too). Unfortunately, they are also missing on the Internet Archive ( https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.lanl.gov/media/pub... ) :-(

> While playing solitaire to while away the time during rest, Ulam asked himself a straightforward question: what are the chances that a hand laid out with 52 cards will come out s…