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Article from The Verge about Honey’s scam behavior (linked at the bottom of the Tech Crunch article)

Gamer’s Nexus on their lawsuit against Honey

Legal Eagle on their lawsuit against Honey

They should be powered on if you want to retain data on them long-term. The controller should automatically check physical integrity and disable bad sections as needed.

I’m not sure if just connecting them to power would be enough for the controller to run error correction, or if they need to be connected to a computer. That might be model specific.

What server OS are you using? Are you already using some SSDs for cache drives?

Any backup is better than no backup, but SSDs are really not a good choice for long-term cold storage. You’ll probably get tired of manually plugging them in to check integrity and update the backups pretty fast.

Except that all of the board length measurements will not work out.

Without getting into the technical details, the main cost offset of running a cryptominer is the electricity used. If the crawler performs cryptominer calculations on your server it will be of no benefit to you, because you will still have to pay the electricity bill, and really it’s not the crawler doing the calculations, it’s your own server hardware.

If you install a captcha as part of your web server, that code is running on your server.

The crawler interacting with the captcha on your server will not result in cryptominer code running on its server.

Something on the crawler’s server would need to accept a download of the cryptominer code and then run that code.

There’s a functional difference between forcing a crawler to interact with code on your server that wastes its time, and getting it to download your code and run it on its own server - the issue being where the actual CPU/GPU/APU cycles happen. If they happen on your server then it’s not benefiting you at all, it’s costing you the same amount as just running the cryptominer directly would.

Any halfway intelligent administrator would never allow an automated routine to download and run arbitrary code on their own system, it would be a massive security risk.

My understanding of Anubis is that it just leads the crawler into a never-ending cycle of URLs that just lead to more URLs while containing no information of any value. The code that does this is still installed and running on your server, and is just serving bogus links to the crawler.

Hmm, how would you convince the crawler to run your code on its home system, rather than just scraping data?

“My sibling in Christ, if you truly respected my privacy you wouldn’t need to ask for this.”

My experience is that this struggle is mostly the result of anxiety over being disliked, and that anxiety can be reduced or removed by mental re-framing of the situation causing the anxiety. Re-framing is what I’m trying to express in my comment above.

Rather than getting stuck in the anxiety spiral over needing to wear the right mask, recognize that this entire concept is increasing the social separation between yourself and the other people, that the sensation of wearing a mask comes mostly from unfamiliarity with social behaviors (I don’t know how to behave in this situation, so I have to try to fake it). The solution is not to wear a better mask, or to wear the mask better, but to recognize that the feeling of masking is being created by anxiety over not knowing what to do.

I’m not trying to say that it’s easy, to say “just get over it”. I’m saying that you can change your perspective on (and emotional reactions to) social interactions by changing the way you think about them, and with practice, and with exposure, and teach yourself over time that the anxiety is unwarranted.

When you say “struggling” with masking, do you mean struggling with trying to wear the right mask, or with feeling like you’re always wearing a mask?

Counterpoint: no person exists in a vacuum. Behaviors are an aspect of social interaction, and most are learned through observation (that is, your behavior is mostly the product of interacting with and in some ways mimicking or mirroring other people).

Your “self” adjusts to fit the social environment of the moment - this is socialization. For instance, you probably behave differently if you are alone with your parents, with your parents and your spouse, with your parents and your sibling(s), alone with your sibling(s), alone with your spouse, with your children and your spouse, or with the whole family, and probably all of those interactions are very different from those with your classmates or coworkers.

Changing behaviors with social context doesn’t mean you are not being “your true self”, it’s just life.

I would also argue that there is no privacy and no private life without some aspects of the self remaining hidden at times.

Life is complicated, and you shouldn’t worry too much about being “real”, you should just enjoy the company of the people you are with in the time that you are with them. It goes by faster than you realize.

“Who you are” changes with context. For instance, you behave differently with your spouse than you do with your parents. There are things you would do and say with your spouse that you would not with your parents. Similarly if you are with a 4-year-old vs. with a coworker.

Behaving differently around different people doesn’t mean you’re being “fake”, it’s just an aspect of human social life.

Please wipe a verification ass.

Henry Cavill for The Witcher:

This schedule culminated in complete water restriction on the final two days, including the day of shooting the shirtless scenes. Cavill explained that the goal was to make his skin “sit on the muscles” for optimal visual impact, a tactic commonly used by fitness models for photo shoots.

[…]

Describing the ordeal on The Graham Norton Show, Cavill admitted the experience was intense and taxing. “By the last day, I could smell water nearby,” he joked, emphasizing just how miserable he felt. The extreme dehydration was so draining he dubbed himself “the most miserable person on the planet.”

One of those dudes literally didn’t drink water for unhealthy periods of time in order to make his muscle definition stand out more on camera.

HA hA Ha!

Everybody has to play along with our delusions, or the market crashes because we’re ridiculously over leveraged!

Muah ha hah! Mine is an evil laugh!

Right, because they weren’t wacko authoritarian isolationists. Choosing to participate in international relationships is a thing that mature, stable governments do.

Attacking your neighbors for self-enrichment is a thing that tyrannical dictators do. Attacking your own people to increase your political power is a thing that nutjob authoritarians do.

I can’t think of any particular reason that would be worth lying about.