Dumbness or perhaps stupidity, today’s mini theme.

• WebSysctl is Now Live!  I like the idea of this, though it would be nicer to have it accessible on the machine where you need it.  (via)
• The GAFA Stack.  Read section 3.
• 8 Bits & Still Brewin’.
• Mute when Locked.  (via)
• Web Archives and Web Archiving – Introduction for Scholars and Students.  You will need this, or at least wish you knew it better at some point.  (PDF, via)
• At one point, “..” did not exist.
• Setting Up Anubis on FreeBSD via Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time.
• The amount of bot traffic has increased significantly, I assume to find content for AI, and ignoring robots.txt – and copyright.  I don’t think people realize the scale of this.  It’s causing a denial of service attack in server resources and developer time.
• Related, see comments here for some mod_security blocking alternatives.
• Post-Quantum Cryptography on NetBSD.
• Make Stupid Things.  (via)
• The Wadsworth Constant, learned about in #5 here.
• Dumbware, self-hosted solutions.  I like this except for the dockering.  (via)

Your unrelated audio of the week: Squarepusher’s Ultravisitor, remastered.