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tweaked my graph to calculate a nice percentage instead

this graph shows the result of iocaine firewalling off ip addresses that are used to scrape my site: about 55% to 95% (as you can now see in the chart) of scraping attempts are callously, effortlessly, ignored at the firewall. and the rest get markov trash!

hell yeah iocaine

now that fortifications are deployed it's time to build fantastic stuff safely behind the walls

Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up user data from cloud storage folders like OneDrive and Dropbox, and also .git folders, despite previously promising to back up all data. This change, implemented without direct user notification, means Backblaze is no longer fulfilling its core function of comprehensive data backup, eroding user trust.
rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

decided to install AbiWord just to try it out (on Debian; it's basically Linux-only these days alas) and just look at this. this is pure and soulful. i'd so much rather use this than LibreOffice next time i gotta write a Serious Letter

holy shit you can have the same document open in multiple windows at the same time… and they stay in sync!! this is useful because those windows can have different scroll positions or zoom levels!

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glsl stands for girls love shader language

@cwebber "as we continue to disrupt the economics of information labor and computing, surely no one will disrupt *our* economics

“Your network has been infected by our ransomware. Pay up or we will install 2000 Copilots and tell Satya Nadella where to find them.”

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RE: social.coop/@cwebber/116399965

Larry Ellison is already firing his sales team for not thinking of this idea first.

@cwebber It’s just like how you can get infinite electricity by plugging a surge protector into itself, but for money

Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees businessinsider.com/microsoft-

*deep breath in*

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA of fucking course lmao

the craziest thing about math is that pretty much all the available research suggests that mathematical investigation is a fundamental aspect of human curiosity shown by pretty much every child as they acquire language capable of expressing it and being bored by math is acquired by modeling adults (and peers imitating them)

me: man I hate reverse engineering decompression routines. what if I just take the ghidra decomp of the routine and stuff it into a new C file, and call that from my python script? Surely that'll work?

me: hurray, it worked! I can see no downsides to this!

guy who owns the rights to the game: Hey I wanted to rerelease it with some minor graphical changes, and I saw you reverse engineered the compression. Could you help us do that, since you understand the compression?

me: UHHHH NOT REALLY

Who needs Ghidra when you have autism and a box of markers?

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