How to say you don't know about OpenBSD development processes without saying you don't know.

Next time research before posting about OpenBSD. Even ChatGPT knows more about OpenBSD security development processes than you do, and that's the biggest possible insult.

If you want to say the same thing without being obviously biased, you can refer to this conventional Israeli wisdom:

Greater Israel, Democracy, or Jewish majority. Pick two.

This is far from certain. Often when a company wants to be bought, they hire people to lead purchasers to believe they are growing faster than reality. Caveat emptor.

It's pretty fair to compare. OpenBSD is a professional, well-built system. People use it because it's well-made. Windows 11 is an operating system that people use because it came with their computer.

Microsoft could do the things that OpenBSD does, their system could be just as secure as OpenBSD. OpenBSD doesn't do magic, it's just normal engineering. Microsoft would rather pretend to be secure than actually follow the practices that would make them secure.

Right, but as I just said obeying a disallow directive isn't legally mandatory, so it doesn't mean much.

The difference depends on context, of course.

Generally speaking there are several cases to consider:

(1) Site requires agreeing on terms of service before browser can access content. In this case, scraping is a clear violation.

(2) Site terms of service forbid scraping content, but human visitors can view content and ...
(2a) site takes technical measures to exclude bots. In this case scraping is a no-no, but for a different reason: it violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
(2b) site takes no technical measures to exclude bots. In this case, the answer is unclear, and may depend on the specific jurisdiction (e.g. circuit court).

(3) Site has a robots.txt file and ...
(3a) robots.txt allows scraping. In this case, even if the terms of service forbid scraping, the permission given here helps the scraper's defense.
(3b) robots.txt forbids scraping. In this case obeying robots.txt isn't in itself legally mandatory, but it may affect your case if the site takes other anti-scraping measures.

Not *explicitly*. Offering such a database would be an invitation for people to look at the whole data broker industry. So what you, as a databroker who tracks and piegeonholes every human being who uses the Internet to a fare-the-well, do to tap into the market for lists of gullible yokels? You offer your customer, literally anyone with money, the ability to zero in on the gullible by choosing appropriate proxies.

For example, you can get a list of everyone who has searched for "purchasing real estate with no money down". Sad people who buy colloidal silver and herbal male enhancement products. People who buy terrible crypto assets like NFTs and memecoins. Nutters who spend a lot of time on conspiracy theory sites.

It's kind of like doxxing someone. You might not be able to find out directly that John Doe lives on Maple St and works for ACME services, but you can piece it together by the traces he leaves online. Only you do it to populations wholesale.

Your sig definitely applies to yourself with this post. Strong ignorance distorts your judgement.

Israel isn't trying to eliminate all Muslims. They aren't even trying to remove Muslims from their own army.

It's hard to take someone seriously when they think the solution for Tumbler's problems is to convert it to Wordpress.

wait a week or two and the details will change completely.

Trump is nothing if not mercurial. His fans will tell you he's playing 11 dimensional chess... I have my doubts, but let's say that's true. The problem is that when it comes to the economy it's not chess. It's more like basketball, and the President is the point guard calling plays, except the play being called keeps changing before the players can execute the last call. It's a tough time to be running a business, you can't plan out more than a couple of weeks.

Who was he talking to? That person in the background did not sound fit to be a caretaker.

Daniel pretty much did that in his last video before death.

You were ignorant before.

It's really sad. His loss is felt immediately. He had an ongoing positive impact on the world.

It was almost certainly suicide.