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If it's dumb and it works, then it's not dumb.

Please don't affirm things that you perfectly know you don't know.

No, author says right here in this threads that it's been hardened versus default:

> For those who are saying that the nginx config is unfairly difficult, intention was just to replicate a fairly normal config that was more realistic than you'd get in a lab environment. If we get to 24 hr+ with no solves I'll see about making it easier. In the meantime, seems like you can perhaps mitigate PHP2Shell with the right nginx config, so that's pretty neat!

But they just showed you their proof. You simply did not accept it, which they might or might not care about.

I suspect that they in fact do not particularly care about what you think.

Breaking Bad vibes here. "You don't want a ransom negociator, you want a ransom negociator!"

Not necessarly. For example you could have the machine print a ticket with the vote and show it to the voter behind a window. The voter:

- confirms (paper goes down the box) and exits the booth

or

- cancels (paper is burned) and votes again

You don't, you simply make both spend a few billion cpu cycles for it. The human will tolerate the one-time cost. The bot's owner won't because it's not scalable.

Calling $900 "a couple bucks" shows how wide a gap there is between perception and reality though.

Yes to both.

For (1) the vast majority of people don't want to spend what's probably on the roundabout of a thousand dollars for their homelab's homepage. You can easily see this in almost every homelabbing discussion on reddit or even here, where everyone focuses on cheap/hackish solutions to avoid overspending... except in hardware of course =) It's kind of become a meme at this point.

For (2), certainly, especially so considering that the author gave the illlustrator blueprints, photos, instructions, etc. for the commissioned illustrator to convert into dynamically-compatible svgs.

There's a lot of top-down implementing there with very low bottom-up artistry. This doesn't at all take from the final quality -which is pretty good- but it makes it easily replicable using current-gen AI.

Maybe the reason is simply that it's a cool idea?

This is typically the kind of hacking project that is preposterously non-economically-viable for 99% of homelabbers, let alone regular folks. Now, for the first time ever, AI is making it actually palatable for everyone who wants it done to have it done... and certainly much cheaper too at an equivalent quality level.

That is just nonsense. Is your work experience perhaps only in marketing-oriented shops for you to think that?

Most models from architect offices of any size will be larger; many experimental results from applied physics research labs will be larger; any single project from a film production company of any size will be larger; any combined weekly security log at MSPs of any size will be larger; any industrial plant's daily production indicators will be larger; any energy company's hourly operational measurements will be larger.

Yes, but (and? Because?) the advice is very good regardless of the software used.

A weird reaction. You're missing some very good advice, advice that is completely oblivious to the backup product... a now-defunct product which is only advertised by a now-defunct company, just the once (that's refreshing), very clearly and honestly (that's refreshing), at the very end of the slideshow.