Without cars, people can walk, but not go very far. Without AI, people can think like they used to, just without slop being introduced in the mess.

Don’t try to get smart using false equivalence. You have a level of stupidity that even perfect AI can’t fix.

No. Looks sleek and polished. Been using it for the last decade.

Ponyo

Oh yea. I was scarred by that movie. Literal "boy meets girl fish " story.

What? Which story is this? I thought I had seen all the Ghibli stories including their “obscure” On Your Mark.

Don’t be silly. There’s no better name than GIMP.

I’m 100% sure the first write up is AI slop. The set write up is sarcasm.

Ah, someone saw Parasyte and decided to make a comic on it.

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For a fleeting moment there, I thought it was The Farside. Like it has the same level of absurdness and humour.

Phones still have replaceable batteries? I have a Google Pixel 8. How do I even open that thing let alone replace the battery?

Can someone explain the first panel? I’m not able to figure out if she is the teacher, or made to stand, or something else?

Could you type this a bit quieter?

No way! So like I’d be be paying exponentially more for an additional 0.6% if I brought the SPF75!

Damn.

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IMHO, I feel people here have the Disney idea of a genie rather than the true Middle Eastern idea of a djin.

Djins grant wishes more like the MonkeyPaw. It can horribly backfire. The protagonist is basically using logic to neutralize anything bad the djin can potentially do to him.

There are clear signs like massive ping rates, downloads, etc. Anubis helps block a lot of them, btut more turn up all the time.

If you see my old posts, you’ll see that I had this exact concern.

I have since learnt that pulling a DDoS attack is actually quite resource intensive / expensive to the deployer as well, and unless you believe that you are being targeted because of something very valuable you host or that you have a technically inclined enemy who is specifically out to get you, you should be fine. Have a good think about your threat model.

With regard to bots, scrapers and the likes, yes, they are a real pain. That can be tackled with Anubis + BadBotBlocker + Fail2Ban + some custom rate limits.

I assume you are a lot more experienced than me based on the number of things you have listed to have self hosted. I feel a well configured reverse proxy with the tools I suggested will take care of 95% of all your not and scraper related worries.

I’m sorry, could you rephrase that? I think there are a few typos in your post.

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