Seriously though, I never got near those numbers. I did put about 2500 hours into TFC and TF2 before it became a bot hellscape.

Wowza

That takes me back to Loaded and FHM days

Just yesterday I banned Facebook’s user agent that is supposedly only used to generate link previews. It was being extremely aggressive, making 20 requests per second. At the time I thought “I bet they’re actually building their own search index”, and here we are.

I haven’t read wired in a few years, and it looks like I haven’t missed anything.

Daily Mail?

Brass Eye was incredible for shining a light on media and political hysteria. Their episode on drugs was hilarious and tragic.

Ah, the war on drugs. What a colossal policy failure.

I don’t think it’s earned by Murdoch, but otherwise agree with the sentiment.

It’s not fine. They are not archiving the internet.

I had to ban their user agent after very aggressive scraping that would have taken down our servers. Fuck this shitty behaviour.

On a high dose of mushrooms, blindfolded in a dark room, and with earphones on, you won’t even know you’re a person who’s taken a drug

Are they? The Subprime AI Crisis

I feel so seen

The charges this guy is facing are insane.

Ah, the 3DO. So much hype from Trip Hawkins.

Commodore’s management were way too incompetent for the Amiga to survive, unfortunately.

Yep, I deal with Brazilians and WhatsApp is what they expect to use

Magnificent

I swear this gets reposted every week

Ersties is great

Fabulous