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thorsson12

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thorsson12··on A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
The experience of browsing the web has really suffered lately. The mandatory 3-4 second "verifying that you're a human" block from Cloudflare seem to show up on more and more websites. Seems like a questionable choice from Cloudflare to teach everyone to associate Cloudflare's logo with high latency...
thorsson12··on UA 1093
It is surprising that weather balloons don't have ADS-B out (or did this ballon have that and something about the system didn't work?). If it did work, ADS-B would have made this collision very avoidable.
thorsson12··on Ultra efficient vector extension for SQLite
Ah, yes, this is a "source available" project, not what you would normally call an "open source" project. Still cool!