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.

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.

True, it was more of a parry for the inevitable dont-use-teams-comment

I’ve been on Linux for the past 30 years or so, so yes it’s kind of new to me.

JFC, inheritance tax much? Get your shit together.

So basically kidnapping and extortion.

Now would be the time for a scramble suit startup.

Same, but I do have my own community away from work and have always prioritized my friends over co-workers.

Because obviously you need military intelligence in… what is it Google does again… adtech /s

They all want to be invited to the secret war group chats they’ve been hearing so much about.

If it’s not a real country, then it cannot issue a citizenship, problem solved in my mind.

Obviously, otherwise we’d be privateers, which is not even cool.

Well, no regulation means we can be space pirates and fuuuuck Google up.

Well they could spend some money on fixing all the fucking security holes backdoors that has plagued xG for years, they could increase coverage everywhere, but especially in rural areas, or any other plethora of issues with wireless communication.

Thanks for sharing this. TIL that femcels exist.

Arcane, it’s always a good intro.

This is not even the right question to ask. Fucking pay your staff! No one should have to depend on tips to survive.

Well that hasn’t stopped them before. I’m not entirely sure where and when it was that their claimed loss was more than the entire global economy.

It broke too many thumbs.

One of the worst shopping basket designs I have ever seen, was where they added additional items together with the thing you wanted, forcing you to remove the thing they added before paying.