I’ve played it and it’s enjoyable without paying–I’ve not felt a need to pay to win.

Edit: but omg, don’t get sucked into the micro transactions rabbit hole. It’s not worth it. I haven’t paid a dime for IN and I won’t, I can’t afford to start that habit.

Can’t fool me, that’s clearly a pile of Twizzlers around an empty filament spool.

And the Wii can be Linuxed, if you get creative enough. Source: former roommate did it

Bots lie about who they are, ignore robots.txt, and come from a gazillion different IPs.

Odd. I just tried

curl https://www.scrapingcourse.com/cloudflare-challenge

and got

Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue

I’m clearly not on the same setup as you are, but my off-the-cuff guess is that your curl command was issued from a system that cloudflare already recognized (IP whitelist, cookies, I dunno).

Anyways, I’m reading through this blog post on using cURL with cloudflare-protected sites and I’m finding it interesting.

Last I checked, cloudflare requires the user to have JavaScript and cookies enabled. My institution doesn’t want to require those because it would likely impact legitimate users as well as bots.

It’s also a huge problem for library/archive/museum websites. We try so hard to make data available to everyone, then some rude bots come along and bring the site down. Adding more resources just uses more resources–the bots expand to fill the container.

I also love it. It was my go-to back when I had to walk inexperienced sysadmins through configuring stuff, in my tech support days. I really appreciate all the commands being listed at the bottom.

What they said

Last time I went to a new-to-me grocery store that I didn’t have a loyalty card for, I just used [local area code]-867-5309. Jenny hasn’t failed me yet.

It wasn’t that uncommon at the time. Take a look at this 2005 study the US GAO did on the issue: Social Security Numbers: Federal and State Laws Restrict Use of SSNs, yet Gaps Remain Also, this news article on the trend.

My college ID used to be my social security number, so maybe it was something like that? Iirc that’s no longer allowed in the US.

I love my A1 mini, but if I ever move on to a bigger machine this will make me think twice about sticking with BambuLab.

The app openvibe does that for Mastodon and Bluesky. You have to have an account on both, though. I think they’re adding in other services eventually.

I just had a successful transaction on Craigslist today. Don’t give up the dream!

It’s worth noting you’re only allowed to insultingly say someone has a mental illness in relation to their gender or sexual orientation.

Do not post … Insults, including those about: … Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.”

Source: https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/

Edit: and the changelog is a hoot.

America elected Andrew Jackson and we learned our lesson. /s

Oooh. I’ve not upgraded yet, but that looks exciting.

Shout-out to Beyond Compare! It makes my life as a many-hatted systems librarian much easier.

There was even a pig that got convicted in, like, 1700s France or something.