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It feels snappy _compared with most sites_.

That's the point!

It feels _very_ sluggish if I try it after spending some time using a windows 98 VM, or a library catalog from 1990.


Not if you were browsing the internet of that time using a 28k8 modem.

Every time there's a new discussion of some arm board, I compare the price / features / power use with the geekom n100 SBC I picked up awhile back.

As far as I can tell, the OrangePi 6 remains distinctly uncompetitive with SBCs based on low-end intel chips.

- Orange pi consumes much more power (despite being an arm CPU) - A bit faster on some benchmarks, a bit slower on others - Intel SBC is about 60% the price, and comes with case + storage - Intel SBC runs mainline linux and everything has working drivers


I get what you’re saying, but Chaucer was not in _my_ lifetime.


Is this code multithreaded? X could indeed be null, in that case.


“Valuable humans in transit”, maybe?

The “Ancillary” series, for sure.


+1 for the Ancillary series by Ann Leckie.


To me, the difference is positive vs negative acts.

An ultimatum says “you must do X or else I will do Y”

A boundary says “you must refrain from X or else I will do Y”.


“You must do as I say, or else.”

You make a distinction without a difference. In either case, without providing for compromise or alternative mutual understanding, it is likely confounding and demanding.


The negative/positive distinction is (you must _perform_ this act by <date>) vs (you must _refrain from_ this act <indefinitely>).

Additionally, an ultimatum comes with a deadline; a boundary is indefinite (until stated otherwise).

In a sexual relationship context, that distinction could be better illustrated by:

"Don't touch me like that again without asking first, or I will break up with you"

vs

"If you don't have sex with me by the end of the week, I'll break up with you".

An ultimatum is, to most people, inherently damaging to psychological safety. A boundary is not automatically better - it can be unreasonable, unhealthy, or incompatible with the other persons needs - but unlike an ultimatum, it's not _inherently_ harmful to the relationship.


Maybe check your network isn't sending web traffic you're not aware of?

I'm running firefox and seeing the normal amount.


Most people are on a CGNAT these days, drowning in captchas is the new normal. You’re at the mercy of one of your neighbors not hosting a botnet from their home computer.


For better or for worse, CF's fingerprinting and traffic filtering is a lot more in-depth than just IP trend analysis. Kind of by necessity, exactly because of what you mention. So I'd think that's not as big a worry per se.


Yet here I am drowning in captchas every once in a while, so it's quite a big worry for me.

Maybe I just have to disable all ad blockers and Safari tracking prevention? Or I guess I could send a link to a scan of my photo ID in a custom request header like X-Please-Cloudflare-May-I-Use-Your-Open-Web?


> Yet here I am drowning in captchas every once in a while, so it's quite a big worry for me.

I think I was sufficiently clear that I was specifically talking about CGNAT-caused IP address tainting being an unreasonably emphasized worry, not the worry about their detections overall misfiring. Though I certainly don't hear much about people having issues with it (but then anecdotes are anecdotal).

> Or I guess I could send a link to a scan of my photo ID in a custom request header like X-Please-Cloudflare-May-I-Use-Your-Open-Web?

Sounds good, have you tried?

Not sure what's the point of these comically asinine rhetoricals.


Not even remotely true, I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about. The only time I get captcha'ed is when I sometimes VPN around, or do some custom browser stuff and etc. I'll even say I get captcha'ed less now than maybe 5 years ago.


Just wait until your ISP puts you behind a CGNAT.

Or if you ever need to travel a lot and tether off your phone. Most mobile devices are IPV6 only (via 464XLAT) behind a CGNAT these days.


Again, no clue what you’re talking about. The only time I had to deal with shit was when I was travelling a bit sketchy countries. I get that “Cloudfare is verifying your connection” loading screen from time to time, but there’s no captchas involved.

Super majority of people don’t use VPNs, or rare browsers, or avoid fingerprinting and etc. When you browse like regular you don’t notice the friction. That’s the selling point of companies like CF, because website owners don’t want to lose real traffic.


Every so often, usually after a firefox update, CF will get into a "I'm convinced your a bot" mode with me. I can get out of it by solving 20 CAPTCHAs.


It's probably just a higher rate of autonomous vehicles needing stop signs and buses identified at that moment, and cognitive bias causes you to only remember when that happens when you recently performed an update. /s


>It's probably just a higher rate of autonomous vehicles needing stop signs and buses identified at that moment

I can't tell whether you're serious but in case you are, this theory immediately falls apart when you realize waymo operates at night but there aren't any night photos.


Thanks for the comment. Lack of seriousness is now appropriately indicated.


My assumption is that CF has something like a SVM that it's feeding a bunch of datapoints into for bot detection. Go over some threshold and you end up in the CAPTCHA jail.

I'm certain the User-Agent is part of it. I know that for certain because a very reliable way I can trigger the CF stuff is this plugin with the wrong browser selected [1].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/


Maybe you allow tracking and cookies?


I don't, and I rarely have issues with firefox. Private + blockers + VPN causes, expected, issues but otherwise i'm usually fine?


The fraud isn’t what he’s being punished for.

The ongoing refusal to answer questions under oath is.

He could have agreed to talk anytime and been released shortly.


I understand being in contempt for not answering a question generally, but I'm curious how this doesn't fall under 5th amendment protections.


IANAL

It's a civil proceeding not a criminal proceeding so he would not be incriminating himself.

He could argue that by answering he would be admitting crimes and opening himself to criminal liability. But there's a possibly they give him immunity and that route is taken away.


IANAL either but I'm not sure anyone involved in the civil case would have the power or authority to grant criminal immunity (perhaps up to and including the judge, at least local to me the civil judges do not do criminal cases - there is no overlap).


Yes I agree that would need to involve the DA


It sure would be nice if this standard of conduct in court were also upheld for the US federal officials who refuse to answer or straight up bold faced lie in court. But nah, it only ever happens to normal people.


If a judge says you're in contempt, you'll get charged with contempt immediately - all the people required are present.

To charge him with defrauding investors requires a whole different group of people to get involved.

Additionally, those people need enough evidence to have a chance of conviction. "He refused to answer questions about it" is not actually evidence.


And it carries an indefinite sentence? That's crazy


To be held in contempt indefinitely you must "hold the keys to the jail cell" meaning you can leave at any time if you simply comply with the courts order.


Having a visual builder tool in an IDE like Delphi or Visual Basic or any of the others.

They ship with an existing library of components, you drag and drop them onto a blank canvas, move them around, live preview how they’ll change at different screen sizes, etc… then switch to the code to wire up all the event handlers etc.

All the iteration on design happens before you start compiling, let alone running.


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