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The bigger problem with running on a PC is UI. No longer will it work well with a simple remote that only needs 10 buttons.
Well, yes, but we hear quite a bit about China or Russia or North Korea or wherever attacking us.

I've quite literally seen people ask "why don't we attack them back?"

Re:WordPress Is in Trouble on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @12:14AM (#42693933)
Not having to spawn a new process greatly decreases the time it takes to process a request, which greatly increases the amount of requests you can serve with a given amount of hardware.
Re:WordPress Is in Trouble on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @12:12AM (#42693926)
These days everything that would've been CGI is now FastCGI (even PHP). Or in other words, run one server whose only job is to reverse-proxy requests to another server over a slightly different protocol.

It can be used in shared scenarios, but it's nowhere near as automatic as "every file with a particular extension" like PHP...

Re:WordPress Is in Trouble on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @12:04AM (#42693881)
Honestly, py3 wasn't a compelling replacement until distros started setting dates to remove py2.
Re:WordPress Is in Trouble on Monday January 13, 2025 @11:54PM (#42693809)
Or you can just pay someone to host it and maintain and support the web server for you, for a lot cheaper (often free, like Github Pages).
Re:WordPress Is in Trouble on Monday January 13, 2025 @11:43PM (#42693746)
I would hope that this would cause more people to realize that allowing total control of the things you use to be centralized in one person (or business) is bad, but well... quite similar things have happened to plenty of other open source projects before.
Re:WordPress Is in Trouble on Monday January 13, 2025 @11:29PM (#42693643)
So they throw Cloudflare in front of it and get defaced yearly. I've worked for companies (thankfully not in a position dealing with the website) that did just that. Somehow they're even still around a decade later. To be fair though that was actually Bluehost, not a VPS.
Re:WordPress Is in Trouble on Monday January 13, 2025 @11:26PM (#42693619)
At best, "serious" businesses (which I take to mean large, successful ones) pretend to take EQ seriously.
Re:Pwning a Brother labelmaker, for fun and interop on Friday July 05, 2024 @10:40PM (#40887819)
> # sorry for this being so long, i have no way to format it sanely x.x

Here ya go, I fixed it (or just see the pastebin link if you're curious what it says):

    wget -O conffile https://pastebin.com/raw/eGfKdvh8
    curl ... \
      --data-urlencode 'org.cups.sid=1862ff74a0c01dd0fb444934e7e67e05' \
      --data-urlencode 'OP=config-server' \
      --data-urlencode "CUPSDCONF@conffile" \
      --data-urlencode 'SAVECHANGES=Save+Changes' >/dev/null