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bot403··on Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
Or you can have all of those things but also not block cloudflare. Because blocking cloudflare is in the interest of just a few company's profits and is unrelated to everything else you mentioned.
bot403··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
I recommend 14 days in jail for the site owner, and, if egregarious, the engineer as well.

Not life ruining but just enough to be annoying. Just like their website.

bot403··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
Or if they ever bring back the "ignore this domain" feature so we can ignore ai slop and copycat sites.

It's why I went to Kagi.

bot403··on The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life
I never slept as bad in my life as when I had a single can of coca cola at 8-9 pm and went to bed at 11-12pm

I did this for a while working nights until I caught on. The nights I didn't have a can were much better.

bot403··on Why Sora Failed: $15M/day inference cost vs. $2.1M lifetime revenue
As a movie consumer I am not interested in AI movies. You don't get to just keep the existing market and switch to AI. You are creating a new market of AI video consumers and hoping it's big enough.
bot403··on A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas
It's considered polite in American culture.
bot403··on The 49MB Web Page
Why lament it? I've been using Inoreader for over a decade after Google Reader went away. And I gladly pay for it year after year.
bot403··on Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?
I had to run Jenkins to build my code. In the snow. And uphill on git pull and deploy.
bot403··on Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?
The markets seem to agree with you and are pricing accordingly.
bot403··on Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?
I've worked with a type of (anti?) developer in my career that seems to only be able to add code. Never change or take it away. It's bizarre. There's some calculation bug, then a few lines down some code which corrects it instead of just fixing the original lines.

It's bizzare, and as horrible as you might imagine.

And it's been more than one or two people I've seen do this.

bot403··on White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward
Not if you can split that group further into people that you can convince to change and people you can't convince.
bot403··on A man who broke into jail
Not a chance, all of our actions are disconnected from our mental conditions and have been pre-decided for us.
bot403··on FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
Or, for many things, a VM with hardware passthrough could work.
bot403··on Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare
In the Czech Republic women get a legally protected 3 year maternity leave. Enough time to get a child into preschool.

And you get a small monthly stipend per child during this time. It's small but it's something.

bot403··on US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables
I think as in all things cooking ass vegetable selection is "to taste".
bot403··on Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt
It's not the "same" crawler. Probably each thread or each cluster machine instance of the crawler hitting it independently.
bot403··on Where did all the starships go?
Not sure your point. It's fiction. Are we closer to finding dragons, faeries, or magic?

Visiting remote planets is as unlikely as riding a dragon. But both make for great stories.

bot403··on Astrological CPU Scheduler
Can you expand on how slowing my network 4 times a year for days at a time while Mercury is in retrograde is useful?
bot403··on A web server on a single floppy disk
If you like this you'll love the web server on tape. Navigation forward works great but if you hit the back button it takes a while to rewind.
bot403··on Coding is when we're least productive
To be fair there was no value judgement there, just a correction in attribution.
bot403··on Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
I'm just guessing but this chaff sounds like it wouldn't actually change the latency or delivery of your actual keystrokes while buffering or jitter would.

So the "real" keystrokes are 100% the same but the fake ones which are never seen except as network packets are what is randomized.

It's actually really clever.

bot403··on S&P500 Priced in Gold
Oh good. I have a spare spot in my front yard to place it. Or maybe I'll just set it down on my dining room table.

Wait...I might want something more secure than that. And if I have a lot of gold I might need to pay people to protect it. These storage costs are going up.

bot403··on You Need to Ditch VS Code
You've never mis-dragged something in the GUI or had a flaky mouse button which lets up randomly while you're dragging which left your folder "somewhere" that you now have to find?
bot403··on AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos
AI compute costs far outweigh storage costs.
bot403··on AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos
Kagi search. I've never looked back. It's what Google used to be and should have stayed.
bot403··on Anatomy of US inequality
The tough part is someone with 20 million "in the bank" will have a hard time constraining themselves to 200k/yr expenses. It seems like a lot but next to 20 million the temptation to spend a little, like 1m on a house, 100k on a car seems like nothing and a potentially reasonable purchase. But it drastically changes the trajectory of that balance.

And you wouldn't feel as good spending 1m on a house or 100k on a car with a 200k salary and zero in the bank.

bot403··on US threatens EU digital services market access
Remind me again how committed the current administration is to providing a defense umbrella? Have they said anything interesting about it lately?
bot403··on I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
The author said he had the assets and gave them to Claude. It would be obvious if he had one large image for all the planets instead of individual ones.
bot403··on My car charger can boil water really fast [video]
Because he keeps flash boiling steam at the party and burning the guests?
bot403··on Messing with scraper bots
Include 127.0.0.1 as well just in case they get into the server.
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