Janeane Garofalo circa Reality Bites.

I like that you can date so many things since the pandemic by BDG’s hair.

Recently it’s been Los Ageless by St. Vincent. I can’t get the steel guitar out of my head.

Every single story about windows 11 makes me hope I can convince IT to let me migrate my work laptop to linux before October.

3 feet + a snickers bar

Or if I feel the need to be rude toward a man: 3 feet + your penis

Bob’s Burgers gets rewatched a lot. We also do a full rewatch of Taskmaster before each new series begins (UK and NZ versions) though that tradition may have to end now that the UK version is nearing 20 series.

There are also a number of UK panel shows that we keep looping through as background noise. Hypothetical, QI, WILTY, selected Buzzcocks episodes, Guessable, Alan Davies: Untitled, Big Fat Quiz, Outsiders.

Oxygen Not Included is the big one for me. It lets me get inventive, which is something my brain needs sometimes.

Software from the 80’s? Get that new fangled garbage outta here. If it doesn’t predate the first Alien movie it’s probably full of bugs.

This is why I didn’t buy a wireless android auto adapter when I bought a different car. I figured Gemini was going to get stuffed down our throats there.

If root on every linux machine is Santa, that explains how he gets so much done.

I thought I cancelled a couple years ago, so I appreciate them sending me an email telling me they were still getting my money.

I would find it irresistible to do, “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

Shortened lives, hastened climate change, and stunted development is a small price to pay for being able to see a nude version of any photo posted to xitter.

Somebody send a gift basket to the Skype CEO, he’s not doing so well.

My experience is with systems that handle nearly 1000 pageviews per second. We did use a spread of haproxy servers to handle routing and SNI, but they were being fed offender lists by external analysis tools (built in-house).

Most often because they don’t download any of the css of external js files from the pages they scrape. But there are a lot of other patterns you can detect once you have their traffic logs loaded in a time series database. I used an ELK stack back in the day.

When I was serving high volume sites (that were targeted by scrapers) I had a collection of files in CDN that contained nothing but the word “no” over and over. Scrapers who barely hit our detection thresholds saw all their requests go to the 50M version. Super aggressive scrapers got the 10G version. And the scripts that just wouldn’t stop got the 50G version.

It didn’t move the needle on budget, but hopefully it cost them.

“Significantly better than ChatGPT” and “Good” aren’t the same. Like ipecac is significantly better to drink than sewage water.

I went long enough without using Google (probably a year-ish) that, when I accidentally made a Google search a few days ago, it was a jarring experience.

It felt wrong the same way other search engines did when I first deGoogled. It was kind of nice actually.