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It's literally not a monolith, but in practice it may well be, that was my point.
Comment · 3 months ago
Yes, systemd not being a monolith is a myth.

You can forward logs to rsyslog or something, but you really can't disable systemd-journald. Technically you don't need to run systemd-boot, you can use grub or something else, but then bootctl and systemd kexec stop working. You don't need to run dbus, but if you don't several systemd features break, and it's not even documented what needs it. The list goes on and on.

Also, the fact that all components are in the same repository and need to be built together causes a lot of headaches with packaging due to dependency cycles (like, systemd -> cryptsetup -> lvm2 -> udev -> systemd).

Comment · 3 months ago
Since the rules are entirely reconstructed, I have to say I'm a bit skeptical of a game where a central point is keeping a count of moves up to 150. It seems too unpractical for a casual game.

Are there other known ancient games that work like this?

Comment · 4 months ago
Yeah, I don't know about the author, but my brain spatial memory is very much tied to Euclidean geometry. The holonomy effect (view is rotated when coming back to the same point) in particular is very disorienting.

It's cool, but I would never use this for real.

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> they still see the URL so they can get the content if they want it

That's incorrect, a MitM can only reveal the server hostname by inspecting the SNI during the TLS handshake, but the HTTP request, including the URL and headers, is encrypted.

Comment · 5 months ago
I just do this for the IP ranges of Amazon, OpenAI, Huawei and other companies that run these insane crawlers: it's 100% effective and it doesn't annoy real users with a captcha or some PoW thing. There's simply no reason for them to reach my homeserver other than to scrape the hell out of it.
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The breeding blanket is entirely contained inside a vacuum vessel, so there isn't any oxygen to react with. Also, the are many blanket designs, but the lithium is never present in its elemental form (precisely because it would be very reactive), but in a stable chemical bond with some neutron multiplier (like lithium-lead alloys or beryllium ceramics). In some design the lithium is even immersed in the coolant itself, which is high pressure helium, so it's not going to ignite in any reasonable way.
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