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AntiBot Cloud - antibot and antispam protection for the website.
Free open source PHP Software (GNU GPL v3) and Cloud Service to protect websites from bots and parasitic traffic.

What issues does it solve?
1) Protection from automatic registrations and form spam on blogs and forums, protection efficiency up to 99%.
2) Protection against clicks/hit bots that click ads and spoil statistics on counters and behavioral factors.
3) Protection against hacking, XSS search and other vulnerabilities, as well as complicating exploitation of vulnerabilities.
4) Protection against doorways and parsers that steal your content and make it non-unique, efficiency up to 99%.
5) Protection against pseudo search engines, analyzers, AhrefsBot, Majestic, SEMrushBot and their analogues.
6) Protection against fake bots, when parsers are represented by bots like YandexBot, Googlebot, etc.
7) Significant decrease in server load, because will not allow unnecessary bots to walk around the website.

Antibot saves you money:
Saving on hosting - reducing the load on the server at times if your website was previously attacked by many bots and parsers.
Saving on copywriters - less content is stolen by parsers, it stays unique longer, and less often you will need to rewrite/refresh texts.

How does Antibot work? - it divides visitors into 3 groups:
First, Good bots - the list is customizable by the user, bots of search engines, social networks, etc., these bots get access to your site without facing antibot.
Second, Real users, that after a few seconds of checking (the checking page is similar to that of CloudFlare), a user automatically gets to the website, if he did not pass the automatic check, then he would have to click on the login button.
Third, Everything else - unnecessary bots, spambots, vulnerability checkers, parsers, behavioral cheaters do not get to the website and the content stays safe from them.

There is a convenient interface (admin panel) for blocking by PTR, countries, referrer, browser language, ip, as well as for viewing statistics. The cloud check uses filters by IP, PTR, Fingerprint, Whois based on blacklists, checking through reCAPTCHA v.3 and by the base of IP belonging to hosting (proxy, vpn, tor).
Hitting a college campus with a legitimately high speed OC level connection, a lax-internal network for connected machines, meant Napster and game servers went nuts on my campus turn of the 2000.

I still have a folder of miscellaneous files obtained from Napster by simply searching "remix" every few days. Yes, the quality is very hit or miss, but many I've never come across again, even in years of clubbing, videos online, etc. For example, this wound up in my collection:

https://www.discogs.com/Stina-Nordenstam-People-Are-Strange/...
Yes, much harder to use small detached flanking forces in a densely populated areas.

They get TikToked, countered within minutes, and then hunted down with long range weapons.

This is especially powerful against battaglione sized units, since their detachments are too small to bear the damage from few lost vehicles. If a convoy loses its sole fuel truck to ATGM, it's bye bye for them in such a wast flat open country like Ukraine.
Yes back in 2006 i don’t believe they had drone capabilities. Im surprised there hasn’t been more news of drone usage similar to the Armenian Azerbajian war.
>… do you have anything else to add to the discussion?

Well, do I even have to at this point?
The way many people I've known seem to achieve flexibility is to accept a role somewhere relatively laid back, typically at a large but non-tech corporation. If they're coming from a much more intense environment and working remotely, it often requires only a couple of hours work a day to over perform, if that.

It seems like it's almost impossible to get a role that's explicitly part time (as you've experienced) but plenty of companies are willing to offer lower salaries while turning a blind eye to enforcing the supposedly 40 hour work week.

The other ways seem to involve some combination of working for yourself, consulting, and short periods of full time employment interspersed with not formally working.
Finding this in my genome changed my diet and changed my life.

I would be interested in hearing more on that if you are willing to share. (You can email me if you don't want to say it here.)
It's not quite what you're asking (more about engineering, and only post-war British projects, from Black Knight to the Beagle probe), but Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford is very interesting.

I especially liked the battle to sequence and publish the human genome before Celera could do the same and slap down a patent on it. The story of the development of Elite is also a fun insight into the challenges of programming in the 80s where every byte mattered.
> Calling it a war of aggression is a subjective opinion

In the way that gravity is subjective.
> what a privileged thing to say

Yeah! Imagine being so privileged you’re allowed to turn off the news and feel happier without mom and dad grounding you from the internet or the government aiming a nuke at you in response, which would thereby prevent you from typing words into a text box and clicking the Reply button when you’re done writing your thoughts.

That would suck because then someone else wouldn’t be able to come along and not actually provide a counterpoint to your comments, but instead just write “what a privileged thing to say”, undoubtedly smirking while simultaneously sipping a latte and clicking Reply to submit their effortless snarky reply from their $5K/month apartment located in the heart of some tech city.
UWP has been unofficially done for a few years now (no official statements, but you could tell from the lack of updates) and they officially shut the door on future updates 4 months ago.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/26/microsofts_uwp_unwant...
> the outside looked good but the inside is raw

make sure you don't start cooking it right away after taking out from the refrigerator. I normally let it rest for 30-45 mins, sometimes even an hour.
D doesn't need a Reality Distortion Field. People that take the time to learn it find it very pleasant and productive.
There's always Yanks, but as a Yank, as a side effect we generally assume the person saying it is British.
In my experience, tech consulting firms are very friendly to contracting arrangements. They tend not to be stuck in a “butts in seats” culture because of how they operate with their customers.
> I, like many others, learned the hard way not to ever get invested in a company I don’t own. We don’t get rewarded for it - we get bullshit stock options and pats on the back.

I've been thinking about this a while, without investigation (doh). But I figure folks here might know the answer. What stops companies, especially startups, from giving employees share grants instead of options? Is it hard to do or is it just that they don't want to/don't believe in the company enough to make this a differentiator in the job market? If it's hard, is there a space in the market for a ?aaS to make it easier?
There was reports after the raids of people losing backup data. Yes, people used a cyberlocker service for backup.
I work as a part time developer right now, however that is in parallel with studies so that might affect my view a little bit. I am also a junior dev, which also might affect my experiences.

I have experienced that the amount of work produced is not linearly correlated with the amount of hours worked. I find that in the periods I work full-time, I get more done per hour than otherwise.

What I have found has the largest (negative) impact on my performance is the context switching that is required when I get back to work tasks. I have to get into that mindset again, which takes time. I've tried to reduce the amount of context switching by grouping work-days and uni-days, but I still notice the difference.

It would perhaps be different if I had time to (sub)consciously think about the problems at work during non-work days, but in my case that is taken by learning other things.

But hey, I like my job a lot, so perhaps full time is not as "soul killing" for me as other people.
I agree with you man and you would think that would be a given.

However, the critical flaw of highly rational actors is that their actions always incur a reality tax, and, more likely than not, they're nowhere to be found when the bill comes.
Good, maybe then I can get the new xbox for a fair price.
> People love wireguard for its simplicity because it doesn’t use certs and PAKEs and whatnot.

I don't know of a VPN that uses PAKE, so I don't get this comparison, but whatever.

My point about certs was that OP was effectively proposing self-signed X509 client certs. It's unclear to me in what way those are harder to use than the proposal here, except that they actually are a widely accepted standard with user agent support.

> WebAuthn’s crowd and browser implementers on the other hand seem fixated on making sure users never have the option to deploy the protocol in such a way. That’s the problem.

https://github.com/herrjemand/awesome-webauthn#software-auth...?
There are obvious problems with bringing iMessage to other platforms (basically the standard for any proprietary platform).

But a few other issues are these various cryptographic ties to things like appleid etc, which are likely harder to deal with.

I believe old black hat demos from 5+ years ago when they found some protocol flaws were constructing the message content manually, but still sending them through the messages xpc service (which is afaik responsible for wrapping things in protocol goo)

There are other issues as well nowadays: all apple hardware for many years has been able to store keys in the Secure Enclave (or element? One is for crypto, one is for javacard, and I can never remember which), so there’d be a loss in security posture relative to apple hardware (I would put money on the SE/SEP being more secure than any hardware crypto wallet - it’s just you can’t unplug it, so you lose the very real security of an air gap)
>>> Depending on the project, thinking about solutions during down-time does make sense - but no employer I've ever come across sees it as productive anyway.

Indeed, if you look at products that are sold for automating the management of skilled workers, such as JIRA and activity tracking, the unstated goal is to eliminate slack. If I can persuade a manager that I need to spend time thinking about solutions, even doing that has to be codified as an entry in a tracking app, with a plan and a deadline.

Part time work might end up being the only way to regain that slack, and the cost in compensation might be worth it for a lot of workers. Especially if they can also relocate to a low cost region.

Simply due to my age, and where I live, I've dealt with and know a lot of doctors. A large fraction of them have switched to part-time status, or they're professors with limited clinical schedules. I play in a band with a guy who is a retired part-time doctor. He lives in a very modest little house, and has enough wealth to live on.
Ending Strategic Ambiguity Won’t Help Taiwan
If I start making moolah on my side project, it turns into my side job, and now I have another unfinished project on my wall of shame and failures.

To counteract my own snark - there are two reasons to work on something and mixing them can pervert either of them alone. I wish I could mix my passion and my income, but I am grateful I can experience passion on its own, as a graceful failure.
> It's for this reason that nowadays I rarely write my own "new" programming languages from scratch, but rather embed them as DSLs inside existing programming languages using macros. This way you get the full ecosystem of the host language for free

I don't understand what you mean by this, so I'm hoping you can clarify. What's the advantage of doing this over the alternative way: writing a parser which would compile to code in the host language, or some primitives that you've arranged in the host language that would represent the bytecode of your language interpreter. From there you can leverage whatever in the host language you want, including its type system, packages, language semantics, FFI access to other languages. Really whatever you like.

What you're suggesting is leveraging a macro system to help you write what is essentially a parser/compiler, which is a good win. But I don't see what that buys you past that point. If I do things the other way, by writing a parser that consumes a *.my_lang file and compiles it to primitives or actual source code in the host language, I can still leverage all the benefits of the host language just as you describe doing with a macro system. The advantage of doing things this way is you're not limited to languages with tolerable metaprogramming capabilities.
USD 300 million more in aid is hardly just sanctions.

Even Germany is sending munitions now
Microsoft Reveals Pluton, a Custom Security Chip Built into Intel, AMD, Qualcom
Question for those who have or have considered part-time work - how does your employer/manager look at this?

Do they view you as a regular worker who wants to strike a different work/money balance, or as a slacker who isn't committed to the company or their own career growth and can't be relied upon for any serious project?

When it comes to the experiences of people I know, my impression is that it's accepted for women with children to seek a part-time role, but for men it would automatically stigmatize them as a slacker. I'm curious if others have the same impression.
I use little tech for recipes - I learned to cook pre-internet so I just know how to cook the food I like. Occasionally, I'll google something new or to get a specific temperature/timing for something. But I started with cookbooks, and it worked fine.

I do keep a Trello card for shopping, though. It is so easy to just throw ingredients into a checklist as I need something, and have that list on my phone when I hit the store.
I would assume that those who can read it, have their ways to watch it.
Theory: the general consensus within the community here is that the leaders of Russia (not the populace, but the leadership) are acting in ways that are internationally risky and harmful.

Although some of the measures that are being taken against Russia are likely to cause discomfort and perhaps harm to the civilian population there, the community here believes that they are necessary currently in order to put pressure on problematic leadership.

The way that manifests is that some/many users will flag and/or downvote posted content that supports Russia.
> Arab mujahdeen"? That word just proves you know nothing and arent interested in learning because a tiny fact check would tell you that you meant Afghan mujhadeen

You got me there. I suppose that makes them white, and my point invalid? Despite your lengthy reply, that is the only factual correction you offer (despite your implication otherwise, I never claimed or, I think, even implied, that only the West accepts refugees).
"Media hysteria per usual" when the source is the Ukrainian government twitter account? That's a really odd take.

The only tweets I've seen saying contrary are on the order of "I spoke to the pilot and they said it's not", so third hand at best.
same top commment on reddit, youtube and hacker-news - internet is pathetic
I'm working hourly on a contract where I advised the company I could only work 15-20 hours a week. It can be a win-win I believe, but with tradeoffs for both sides.

I'm able to make the 3-4 hours of work a day be extremely productive. I always deliver in fewer hours than were budgeted for the work. As a contractor, there are no extraneous meetings to slow me down. But I'm still involved in client meetings as needed, understand their needs, and take ownership of the codebase to my immense satisfaction.

It's not very different than working "full time" from home where you might take a walk, run an errand, cook your lunch, etc., but I can flex the schedule even further without any guilt. The change in mindset from "taking a break from full-time work" for an errand versus "I'm not billing this hour, I'll do whatever I want" is empowering.

The negatives: less pay in total for me (but hourly rate can be negotiated), and features might (but won't necessarily) get done more slowly in terms of calendar days.

BTW a typical day might be:

- daycare drop-off 9:30, exercise

- 10:30 shower, chores, life tasks

- 11:45 cook and eat lunch

- 12:30-4:30 work with a break for walking or playing piano

I do some "down time" thinking about problems as I fall asleep at night or on walks.
The moral views you have are remnants from both (1) fitrah (natural disposition, which is not free from corruption by the way, and (2) a Judeo-Christian view of the world. While both of those religions have been corrupted, their still exists remnants of Truth that people cling to, whether they are aware of that or not.
Microsoft used to be quite dedicated to this too. If you look at the leaked Windows XP source code you can find compatibility shims to ensure that older Versions of Quicken or Acrobat Reader or Settlers 3 still work. A "don't break userland" policy is part of the reason they became so popular in businesses. Since then times seem to have changed somewhat.
This is a very reasonable take. The people at NIST are in a bind. Many of them are good people with positive intentions, but they cannot speak freely about NSA and they say so openly at cryptography conferences when asked.
Convince me it won't be largely a nothing burger like the Y2K problem?

My guess is in 2037 everyone will frantically test their systems and make some patches and life will go on, no?
There's probably an analogue argument for diseases and I'd still rather live in the universe where poliomyelitis was eradicated than one where it wasn't.

Why it being part of a larger phenomenon would stop us from preferring to stay on one side of it?
I should have perhaps mentioned in the original post:

1$ = 152,3₽ (buying 1 US dollar)

1$ = 85,7₽ (selling 1 US dollar).

Just because you pay 152₽ to buy 1$ doesn't mean you can sell it at the same price. At least banks won't buy it.

According to banki.ru the best price for selling US dollar now is 94,00₽.

Hope that clarifies it.
Yeah they need at least one more big corporate sponsor besides Status.
Because people use them because they’re free. I’m happy with the few android apps, and few web apps with a few thousand visitors that I have. I made those when I was free (pun intended) so there’s no point charging for them. And I can afford a few bucks a month on hosting so not a big deal.
I've long suspected this. Question for anyone who wants to take a stab at it: how, as someone wanting an 'in' to the consulting world, to best find and separate companies that are actual consulting firms and not just burn-and-churn MSP shops that carefully and sometimes convincingly disguise themself as such?
That's true. However, the decoupling that occurs when refactoring one and not the other creates two different code structures, often with different levels of abstraction. I saw the same thing happening with a combination of react and redux, an it made debugging weird behaviors really, really, hard.
Way back when, I used this book (along with Total Resistance and Che Guevara's Guerilla Warfare) as primary sources for a speculative paper submitted for a history course. Got an A for the paper, but my instructor was more surprised about where/how I was able to get hold of books like that.
According to the name of the icon, it's the flag of the Soviet Union, not China.

Edit: I would guess it's labelled Soviet when it's unclear which side the equipment come from.
Take a moment to reflect on how many people were involved in the proposal, design and implementation of this function. And yet, at no point was this awkward design shot down by any of them - despite going against widely accepted ground principles in software design and engineering.

How come so much incompetence is concentrated in those places, and what can be done about that?
> Three studies suggest it originated from the Wuhan markets: 28 points.

That’s not what the studies suggest. They suggest that it was an important amplification point. Whether or not it originated there is an additional inference. It’s certainly possible, but alternative hypotheses are not dismissed by the market being an amplification point. A busy market is a likely amplification point, regardless of what is being sold.

I think that failure to find the virus in any wet market animal or in the wild (from the studies) starts to become its own kind of weak evidence as well. So two things are true: wet market was a likely amplification point and the lack of corroborating evidence for zoonotic origin is troubling. (Though I think its probably the most likely explanation, I don’t think studies like this actually add any new level of certainty and the same reasons to be suspicious remain.)
To get a good retro feeling, I once compiled the most recent gtk 1.x version available and then compiled xmms on a raspberry pi. Worked flawlessly.

But yes, there are modern and maintained implementations that support winamp skins. I think qmmp is one of those.
I wasn't talking about chipboard competitors.
“Are their” meaning possessive, meaning Russian SSN, not “are there” meaning does any exist somewhere

Is there anything specific you want to point out in my reread?
Because its fuel for war.
Using CMOS Sensors in a Cellphone for Gamma Detection and Classification
Yeah… I’ve worked with part time engineers in the past and been one myself several times too. The main problem is that people flake. Your part time position is not as important to them as their other job, their degree, their time off. Lots of people think they can be productive for 10-15 hours of their usual Netflix time and then find out that they have no energy or motivation. Part-time engineers have a way of falling off the map, getting behind on work. You don’t give your important work to someone who clocks in for a few hours randomly every week, and it’s too much trouble to bother if they’re only doing unimportant work.

Of course some people thrive in this role, but joining an engineering team part time is a skill by itself, just as important as raw engineering ability. People with backgrounds in project management, for instance, tend to have the organization and follow through to pull this off.
No. If you calculate the straight probabilities of blackjack or roulette, say, the house has a small advantage. That's the house edge.

OP is saying that the digital versions give the house an additional edge.
As soon as I start trying to take money (or compensation of any kind) it becomes a violation of my work status.
The problem is you still have to have a Mac to do the actual work, but then the M1 mini is fast and reasonably priced so maybe could be set up with a cross compiler so you could have it doing something else useful rather than being (despite the price as a computer being reasonable) a very expensive messaging client :)

Obviously assuming linux is your main environment so a single Mac wouldn’t have additional use otherwise. If you did also run a Mac anyway having the proxy/forwarding to any machine you were working on would be super nice (similar to text forwarding to your desktop so you don’t need to get your phone all the time)