My experience is that the bloated popular websites are the number 1 memory hogs. And certain "modern-looking" apps are the number 2 hogs. Libreoffice in my system behaves. Web browsers, while browsing "classical" websites, behave too.

I learned Unix and C on a V7 Unix virtual machine with 256Kb memory under VM/SP on an IBM 4361.

I installed my first Linux (Debian 2.1 slink) on a PC with 4Mb RAM and it ran well, although it had no web browsers to speak of.

robots are soulless things without free will. It's pointless to attack them, because they won't learn. The human traitors aiding and abetting them, on the other hand... are attackable.

I'm not necessarily thinking like that, just speculating what the attacker could have thought.

For some reason, post-Brexit UK is clearly ahead of the EU in the race for limiting freedoms of the people. Although one of the main goals of Brexit was precisely to protect freedoms of the people.

If the UK is so different and doesn't support the principles that made the Internet possible in the first place, then they should simply disconnect the country. Problem solved.

The UK should erect a firewall to fence off their own Internet from foreign Boogeymen, and stop entertaining the world with their own stupidity.

I'm not a fan of 4chan, but they're not the morons in this particular fiasco.

If it was just 100,000, then modern software wouldn't be that damn slow.

I hope you're joking; because UB isn't an unavoidable fact of life in C.

How fortunate that Telnet works only on port 23... (and HTTP(s) on 80/443)

Either made that decision, or didn't notice that Telnet doesn't work anymore.

If you meant the ISPs then no, they didn't block Telnet. They merely blocked port 23.

Me, but thankfully it's not exposed to the Internet. Don't ask.

Reminds me of the times when my poor webserver was trying to cut OpenAI off, and OpenAI was using increasingly sophisticated methods to evade detection.

Some companies scrape the entire Internet. Others download the Anna's Archive. Some feed on the former two. Nothing is off limits in the brave new world of AI.

With the cocoa prices surging, chocolate chips don't look like a magic solution, either.