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Lazy or just stupid?

Few hours ago I got a random email from Ionos informing me about upcoming charges to my account due to Plesk licensing changes and indicating specific contracts being affected. I do have a handful of servers with them for my DNS Anycast, but they are all entry level VPS, headless with no control panel or

The biggest internet tumors

After the omnipresent cookie notice, the next internet tumor is the Cloudflare captcha or Turnstile or whatever it is called. It does not stop scraping, but it does block three times in a row legitimate browsing and the automatic check fails to validate in 9 out of 10 cases.

Node is pure garbage

I have always considered Node to be pure garbage, for its dependencies, for the fact that for specific software versions you need specific Node versions etc. But there is more to it than meets the eye. Node’s supply chain is insecure and prone to attacks. A bunch of very widely used web building blocks (npm

The forums deserve to die

There was a time, about 10 years back when the forums were very popular. In fact I believe that 10 years ago the forums were as popular as blogs are nowadays. Everyone wanted to have a forum, but only a few mastered the art of getting tons of people together on a discussion board using phpBB,