Sweet, thanks!

It’s a cool idea, but the way it tightly couples itself to a model, forcing db calls for something like this kinda ties your hands.

For high-content sites like blogs for example, the idea that a template tag would kick out to the db for every post on the page is too much.

Instead, it’d be nice to decouple the bot detection from the gibberish generation so you could do useful things like precache the gibberish in Redis or on your content object directly and then just do {% if is_bot %}{{ post.gibberish }}{% else %}{{ post.content }}

Good to know, thanks. Where do I find the complete BDS list?

Ooh! I have something for this.

This is pretty slick, but doesn’t this just mean the bots hammer your server looping forever? How much processing do you do of those forms for example?

YouTube link for anyone else who’s having trouble getting the above to stream anything.

Depending on how complicated you’re willing to allow it to be to run locally, you could just run a webserver right on the desktop. Bind it to localhost:8000 so there’s no risk of someone exploiting it via the network, anf then your startup script is just:

1. Start webserver
2. Open browser to http://localhost:800/

It’s not smooth, or professional-looking, but it’s easy ;-)

If you want something a little more slick, I would probably lean more toward “Path 2” as you call it. The webserver isn’t really necessary after all, since you’re not even using a network.

One option that you might not have considered however could be to rewrite the whole thing in JavaScript and port it to a static web page. Hosting costs on something like that approaches £0, but you have to write JavaScript :-(

While I appreciate any attempt to shed more light on Poilievre’s weaselly nature, this sort of heavily edited, “scary narrator” hit job is pretty gross. I’m not convinced that this will sway anyone to drop their support for him.

I always appreciate it when people build friendly Python wrappers around C code, but I suggest that if you’re going to share an example in the documentation, the answer the LLM gives should at least be correct:

Q: Name the planets in the solar system? A: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

Also Ctrl+D to exit any shell and Ctrl+R for reverse searching your history!

Just be careful with files with spaces in the name. There’s an incantation with xargs that I always have to look up when I want to use it safely.

Not in and of itself, but I find that I have a handful of common tricks that I can put into aliases. Also, there’s ffmpeg.app!

You might be interested in this project where someone has hooked up a low-power system to Mastodon and is tooting through it stories about the experience. The project author may also be worth contacting.

I’ve used Starship before, and while it’s quite powerful for formatting what goes into your prompt, I don’t believe there’s any feature in there that will fix the prompt to the top of the screen. The best I could find in the docs was a feature to place some text to the right.

Yes, that’s it exactly.

What exactly are you self-hosting that’s gobbling up that much data? I’ve been self-hosting my website for decades and haven’t used that much over all that time let alone in one month.

Most of my bandwidth consumption is from torrents and downloading Steam games, but even that doesn’t get me to even 1tb/month.

Hear me out: I want the prompt at the top of the screen.

It’s terribly inconvenient to have the place you’re typping your command into at the bottom. On laptops, your fingers are in the way, and on desktops, you’re always craning your neck looking at the bottom-left.

Imagine instead if your terminal looked like this:

| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| $ curl https://...
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| $ echo "hello"
| hello
| $ ls
| output.png
| goes.txt
| here.webm
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

After a command is entered in the upper pane, it’s appended to the lower pane along with the output just like a normal terminal. Maybe even something like translating Shift+Enter to mean “clear the output pane and run”.

Cool beans! My wife and I have been looking for a place in the UK to visit and York just topped my list.

Awesome! Which city?

Could Wine help out here?