• Impersonate a man for 3 years: nothing
• Try to cross a real estate company: believe it or not, straight to jail, even as a cop

Last I checked hl=en from 20 years ago still works reliably across all products, but I can see the new slop slowly creeping up in everything, enjoy it while the slop haven’t reached that part.

Cloudflare have “workers” that can run code, and anyone can create them, my guess is abuse? You can try contacting cloudflare.

Still, it would be a fun weekend project, you can start with Linux, set up autologin, set dosbox to autostart on startup, you can even install Windows 3.

Or just for that nostalgia hit: https://archive.org/details/win3-1

Please take this as support: You need to look a little bit more into theories. You are reinventing things that don’t need reinventing (categorizing data), but are not thinking about the real pain points of building search that return relevant results (full text search performance, scalability, semantics, extracting user intention from queries).

Here’s an article that I think is very good on the topic

https://blog.wilsonl.in/search-engine

Actually no, it’s much more onerous than that. They have a GLOBAL CAP on number of phones that can be unlocked in a day that is exhausted in about 2 seconds, and you must try your luck at 0:00 Beijng time everyday. Don’t buy xiaomi if you want unlocking.

There are actually pretty good precedents for that. All three major phone companies have been breached. The government has been breached (then someone started a datacenter fire to cover it up). The largest online retailer has been breached. Basically everyone’s info is floating around somewhere.

And seeing how much care they put into software here, I think that will happen again. This law is not intended to fix that, it is to punish the retailer above.

The owner still hides in the US, pretend he is a foreigner and ignore Korean parliament summons, then cries “discrimination”. They still aren’t fined anything more than a year later. Meanwhile actual foreigners gets an entry ban immediately if they evade police.

Aside: I recently fired up a server with Debian 13 and the size was only 900MB compared to 2G of Debian 11, 12 and Ubuntu. Anyone knows what changed?

Imagine you are making $$$ from your app or site.

One day you get an email “we’ll remove your app because we found out you didn’t pay us enough protection money. There is no appeal, we are a trillion dollar company, whatcha gonna do?”.

You instantly lose half of your income in the best case, 100% in the worst case. There is no alternative app store for iPhones outside of the EU.

DMA is supposed to fix this, but it’s only for the EU, and look at how Apple tried to spite the EU with their “compliance”.