This shit looks like a low budget Dr. Who antagonist. Nope Nope Nope

Windows 10 had already done a great job of that, but Windows 11 has really amped it up. I only have a single Windows machine in the house at this point for specific corporate stuff I need for work.

I don’t agree at all. Cost is cost. Infrastructure cost does partially away over time, but higher workforce cost and higher materials cost will always be there. Not to mention how volatile the situation is politically. Trump hasn’t been shown to be one that can be appeased once and you stay in his good graces. He always wants more and changes his mind constantly. I think a long term investing in a new plant sounds highly risky.

When you consider the costs from building new plants, having a more expensive workforce, and that the raw materials are heavily hit with tariffs, it might not actually be more expensive to just keep it elsewhere.

A few of them are quite good at randomizing their user-agent and using a large number of IP blocks. I’ve not had a fun time trying to limit them.

That was kind of the point of my comment since the name didn’t indicate that. Also many tools that companies would use won’t/can’t use these files, but could still make use of the info. As I am specifically in that case, I wanted people to know that it could still be worth their time taking a look.

Most AI crawlers don’t respect robots.txt files, but this info might be useful for other forms of blocking.

I’d take that page with a grain of salt, especially since it is quite old and not all of it valid anymore, but I agree that generally you hear the good things about Matrix. Even disregarding what that site has to say, I’d give XMPP a look. XMPP likely isn’t all rainbows either, but I like the traction it is getting and it did a lot of things right in my mind.

They must be really special. I bet the next thing they’ll do with this power is create a new religion in Utah.

I’m not the person you replied to, but a lot of my friends that pushed us to initially use Matrix have grown unhappy with the direction it’s gone and really dislike the clients. I personally host a private Matrix server and I am fine with it for now, but I’m able to avoid most of the drama and bugs by simply not moving to the latest and greatest. I always liked XMPP in the past, but I haven’t used it in a few years. I am glad to see it picking up support and hope that some of the things I didn’t like about it (which I can’t seem to recall at the moment :) ) are no longer problems or at least may get some traction on resolving.

IRC is still awesome and I am have come back to it every time whatever new platform we try becomes shitty. I think I’ll just stay put this time.

I confirmed this with my own SDR years ago after seeing a presentation about it at DEFCON.

Nice to see posts from lobsters making it over here

haha that really brings me back.

The fact that you say using NFS makes you old makes me feel like fucking Yoda

They require that the kids use the Chromebooks and use Google accounts.

tl;dr Belgain Triples reign supreme!

For now… :(

yeah, I had to resurrect an old phone to go to a concert last week. It’s possible I’ll never go to one again. I wouldn’t have bought the tickets had I known about that bullshit.

In case you’re curious, the Nokia flip phone I got my daughter is the Nokia 2780 Flip.