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.