princess

Discworld

thanks i hate it

tangential but I've given up on managing cookie preferences on most sites

I installed cookie autodelete and allow sites I care about, then let the rest get purged when I close their tab

it's probably not perfect -- they could still build a profile based on IP address, browser fingerprint, etc. -- but I figure it at least makes it harder for a lot of em

plus I'm not on Facebook or Google or the other big advertising platforms so that helps

low orbit ion cannon and friends were tools for participating in anon ddos ops back in the day, but it wasn't exactly safe -- without a vpn your isp and other intermediaries can see your traffic, and the host can see your ip address. with a vpn you're in part dosing your vpn, depending on the attack

no idea how anon organizes such things these days

brb deploying each bin from coreutils as a separate aws lambda function

quantum services

take your source code and put each character in its own docker container

this gives you the absolute peak of scalability and agility as every quantum of your application is decoupled from the others and can be deployed or scaled independently

implementing, operating and debugging this architecture is left as an exercise for the reader

that will be $250,000 kthx

yes

roughly 32% of (eligible to vote) americans voted for trump

that's hardly "most"

Terry Pratchett's Discworld has The Clacks, a network of semaphore towers that can transmit messages, later including encoded images, across the disc.

They could be truncating the password in one form but not the other.

APL

at least all those state actors will have to fight it out to control my system

and i have an excuse for poor application performance