At some point in my life I used to think of the term think tank as something positive and exciting. Experience, unfortunately, has proven them to be nothing but a tool for propaganda and misdirection.
My personal belief is that it's mostly cool and won't see any heavy commercialized use in the near future, due to heavy lobbying from the petroleum industry and the whole but-think-of-the-poor-oil-execs gang.
I feel like this wouldn't reduce costs, since the load is the same, but just moved to a different daemon, in this case nginx. I for one, pay for bandwidth on my VPS, so the cost for me would be the same.
One thought I've had, is to use a slow loris technique combined with a small pool of connections and an ai poisoner, to keep the scraper occupied for as long as possible, without using a lot of bandwidth.
Man, I know that feeling. One thing that helped me better deal with issues like this, was to have a changelog. Basically I write down what a setting was, what I changed it to and a reason. If something goes wrong, I can at least undo what changes I've made and see if it helps. It's not perfect, but it might shave some hours off a RCA.
I wish I had the permissions to install ad blocks on my work laptop.
Me too, what is up with not having an adblocker or bring able to install one? So many ads pose security issues and not being able to block them is just annoying and unsafe.
Yeah, im in disbelief. It was just weeks ago when they reported a website was spamming the parliament with emails. Now fucking Denmark is trying again, WTF Denmark!!!
Absolutely agree. I have been thinking of starting a selfhost guide that takes you through the different ways to selfhost and the basic concepts of it, but gave up because I'm a shit writer and my experiences are mostly docker, k8s and Terraform/OpenTofu.
This is unfortunately insanely common in a lot of companies. I literally cannot count the number of passwords that I've had to update, from a combo of the company name and a four digit number, usually bigger than 2000.
It's a good feature, I just wish I knew how to make it appear on posts and comments.