It would be nice if the report feature had a way to indicate if the problem is spam, content or whatever other issues people might have. You could have a threshold for spam reports to put the account in review and prevent of hide it's posts.

Visions and hallucination are not uncommon in meditation practice. In Zen training we're reminded that the mind generates thoughts and visions like the eyes generate sight, the ears sound and so on… The instruction in that context is not to cling to the vision so that you can return to object-less meditation.

If you are interested in how some of the older meditation traditions view different meditative states, search for Jhana or Dhyana, sentient beings have been doing this for a long time and there is a lot of helpful guidance out there to support your practice.

Historically, reverse proxies were invented to manage a large number of slow connections to application servers which were relatively resource intensive. If your application requires N bytes of memory per transaction then the time between the request coming in and the response going out could pin those bytes in memory, as the web server can't move ahead to the next request until the client confirms it got the whole page.

A reverse proxy can spool in requests from slow clients, when they are complete, then hand them off to the app servers on the backend, the response is generated and sent to the reverse proxy, which can slowly spool the response data out while the app server moves onto the next request.

Web sites and pages come and go, but the search engine indices are forever. The Internet Archive, for example, uses data from a search engine crawler to populate their archive of the internet (until Alexa was shut down by Amazon, they do their own crawling now). Google likely has a lot of old internet data in archives as well.

They're using memetic compression, the best compression you can get, by simply uttering the filename of the meme we can recreate the entire image or gif. Clearly this is the referenced image:

ironic.jpg

themoreyouknow.jpeg

Yeah, blood libel never gets old, sadly.

I regularly get materials with identifying information embedded in them, it's very common in the technical publishing industry, not unreasonable to check a purchased eBook for an identifier which ties it back to the original purchaser.

Ahhh, the Streisand effect in action.

Every day, almost 3,700 people are killed globally in crashes involving cars, buses, motorcycles, bicycles, trucks, or pedestrians; nobody bats an eye. (c.f. US CDC)

One Tesla crashes and it's front page news.

Java is, of course, Turing Complete™️ but when you have to hide all the guns and knives in jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe something is clearly wrong.

The real problem with boomers is how fucking many of them there are, Gen X and later never had the numbers to make change happen.

Well, Some Days are Better than Others