Even if it doesn’t prevent scraping entirely, filtering out the “fast, weak” bots help mitigate server load. Sufficiently many bots hitting your site is indistinguishable from a DDOS attack.

The fast food joints in the ruins of Pompei are fascinating. Stone tables with circles cut out so you could put food on the table and warm it from below, it’s basically a modern street vendor setup without the glass.

An activitypub is a pub you go to for activities. It’s fairly self-explanatory.

Because those same fossil fuel barons are raising prices in the US as well. Whatever the global price is, US customers need to pay that or they’ll just sell it somewhere else.

Noise is going to be made for a few more days until the midterms so he can be seen to be “working on it”, and then the idea will be permanently shelved after the election is over.