World governments will be delighted to find that they've driven their populations off of the internet. As much as they'll hate being engaged in 24/7 automated cyber warfare to stop their power plants exploding.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2026
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The world wide web has come back to an era where people and content are sparse.
I believe that this is a paraphrased quote, but “I weep for the future”.
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I'm pretty close to having a userid whitelist on my server. I have public facing but nothing that really needs public facing. I could easily just make it a user token based system then revoke any credentials that abuse the services