While this is idiotic and counter productive long term, the thing to remember, it’s not just one scraper, it’s hundreds of them, simultaneously trying to outscrape the other, each trying to hoover up as much as possible as fast as possible.

If that’s not enough, the Facebook scrapers hit the same URL over and over again, even when that URL returns an error. Their approach to web scraping is essentially: “Fuck you, deal with it”, even if the website is run by a small business that cannot financially justify more bandwidth or server capacity.

I’ve seen this process bring sites down, to the point of actively having to block all non-human requests, just to be able to serve customers. This of course doesn’t work long term because the bots continue to probe and morph.

Box Jellyfish, Taipan, Stonefish, Redback Spider, Drop Bear, Hoop Snake.

Yeah, I suppose you’re right, we do like to name things in an understated elegance.

😁

I absolutely think that it was too fast.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/zellic

23 years ago, I wrote a mapping engine using image maps and clickable gifs. I had it to the point where I could draw a country with roads, towns and labels, you could zoom in and out, and I dealt with the different types of projections.

Then Google Maps came out.

With explanations like this, who can blame them 😁

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/reduce

So … tools that are used hundreds, if not thousands of times a day, by millions of people, over decades, replaced by rewriting in a different language, within 12 months, by what appears to be a blockchain web3 security company.

What could possibly go wrong?

PHP is written in text files which can be managed using any number of version control systems. Pick your poison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_version-control_software

As someone else said, you can document your patches with a Docker file, but you’ll still need to track your changes.

Ultimately, what you’re essentially doing is maintaining a local fork of the code and keeping it synchronised with upstream.

On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists who were members of al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist network, hijacked four California-bound commercial airplanes shortly after their departures from airports in Boston, Massachusetts; Newark, New Jersey; and Washington, D.C. In a coordinated attack that transformed the planes into weapons, the hijackers intentionally flew two of the planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and another into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Learning about the other hijackings through telephone calls, passengers and crew members on the fourth plane launched a counterattack. When the passengers attempted to breach the cockpit, the hijacker pilot, who had changed course toward the nation’s capital, crashed the plane into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near the town of Shanksville.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed on that day, the single largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil, and the greatest single loss of rescue personnel in American history. Approximately two billion people, almost one third of the world’s population, are estimated to have witnessed these horrific events directly or via television, radio, and Internet broadcasts that day.

I understood that all X11 apps running under Wayland are running inside the same environment, or is that wrong?

In other words, all X11 clipboards are shared.

I’m also not sure about clipboard isolation, since I’d have thought that copy/paste between Wayland and X11 would be expected.

The bolt that holds the flag pole unfurling mechanism planted on the moon by the Apollo 11 crew, because it’s likely to be part of human history for quite some time to come.

Also, I’m aware that the moon landing wasn’t in 1959, but I imagine a NASA engineer pulling it out of a bucket of bolts from previous projects, ie. memorable place in history, not particularly noticeable or special.

Disclaimer: I have no knowledge whatsoever of the actual construction of the flagpole or its origins.

So … people will see the platform for what it really is?

Given that its CEO has some serious issues with democracy, I can’t say that I care one iota which language abomination is powering his empire.

All of them.

Interesting, I’d never considered looking at deaths, since more guns seemed like a bad idea for society overall.

Turns out that deaths have reduced significantly, while gun theft seems to have increased. Also:

Firearms remain the third most common cause of domestic family deaths.

https://www.gunsafetyalliance.org.au/the-stats/

Except that it didn’t work. We have more guns now than before Port Arthur.

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/australia-more-guns-now-than-before-port-arthur/

Congratulations on your new responsibilities!