Just yesterday I turned off the server for a pet project I had. Postgres had been running unattended for 7 years on Linode. pgdumpall to Backblaze B2 on a nightly crontab, that is it.

I got a Cloudflare captcha to access a few kb of plain text. Chances are, the captcha itself is heavier than the content behind it. What is the point?

The point is to have Cloudflare serve the few KB of cached content instead of the original server.

You can have just caching without bot protection

I used to also have a dedicated Windows machine just for gaming, but two years ago I formatted the Windows drive and put SteamOS (via ChimeraOS) instead. I can legitimately say that it has been more stable than running the same games on Windows. Just flawless.

now with gabecube, maybe steamos would be directly available for desktop too

Please tell me this is satire.

I suspect that's how it started and then put it out there and gained momentum. Possibly as a joke.

As a note on satire, is there a term for satire which is perpetuated for long enough that is take seriously at some point by someone?

I have been referring to this pattern as "the pizzagate phenomenon". Basically, making a joke repeatedly until it reaches an audience that's not in on the joke. It is not quite a "self-fulfilling prophecy.

Asking Gemini (ironically), I come up with Poe's Law.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law]

> Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent (such as an emoticon or a disclaimer), it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views. This "law" describes exactly the scenario you've outlined: a joke or satirical statement, especially online where tone and body language are absent, is perpetuated long enough that it reaches an audience not "in on the joke" and is subsequently believed to be a genuine viewpoint.

Poe's Law is infamous if you are a slashdot reader of a certain age.

Yup, that's it! Thanks for the link.

I kinda explain a lot odd stuff through this lens.

Pizzagate was not satire, though. It was malicious disinformation. Aka lies.

Specifically to prepoison the collective consciousness to gloss over the newly revealed facts that real active politicians have participated in a large international trafficking ring

Yeah sure but Ycombinator still wrote them a $500.000 check

You could look into MDM solutions. These are meant for unattended devices like kiosks in public spaces. You should be able to control devices remotely and lock them down to only the essentials.

I don't think that's it because I have seen some reports of this behavior online with the official charger.

I have this laptop and this is so frustrating. I am hoping that they can fix this with a firmware update.

In case you are not aware, most of the titles discussed in the article are available for free as high quality ebooks at https://standardebooks.org because they are in the public domain. I have read way too many detective novels since discovering this website.

Which of them did you like best? Apart from obvious choices like Poe, Doyle or Christie.

I have this laptop with this display configuration and it looks amazing. However on Arch with Gnome/Wayland I cannot get color management to work, which is a problem since this display has such a wide gamut. Opening HN on it for the first time I was blinded by the deepest orange nav bar I could imagine.

I would recommend not wasting time with ollama, https://github.com/containers/ramalama just works on that chip.