Either phishing (send fake link, get you to enter password), or someone messing with you by signing up with your email

No one's gonna talk about how they turned referral links into a piramid scheme?

cdparanoia is old but has always worked fine, even on crappy drives and damaged disks. Even many modern tools like cyanrip just use cdparanoia to do the actual ripping, just wrapping it in a new UI. You will need to convert the output with another tool, but this is quite easy. (For mp3 disks, just mount them and copy the files, no special tools needed)

Where thinkpad?

Let them cook, the result is almost guaranteed to be amusing.

Less formal alternative: IMHO: You're wrong.

Sounds like a good way to generate plausibly sounding but subtly incorrect bullshit.

Just add -a for auto compression.

No. Conservation of mass and energy only prohibit the total mount of mass and energy changing. The universe could have always existed with that mass and energy. We have good evidence that a lot of mass and energy was spread out by the expansion of a much smaller universe around 13.8 billion years ago, but we don't know what the universe was like before that, it could have always existed, or it could have been formed by the collapse of another universe, we don't know for sure.

Anyway, the laws of physics are just empirical observations, they have been proven wrong before. Einstein's general relativity disagrees with Newton's laws of motion and, further study reveled that Newton was (very subtly under normal conditions) wrong.

DO NOT DESTROY VITAL TESTING APPARATUS

So many sites just outsource to content farms and have flooded the internet with SEO crap for years. With automation making this easier and cheaper it will probably only get worse.

Right now, generally well know sites like Wikipedia are fine, random people's blogs are fine, but the first google result from some random company is almost guaranteed to be shit.

Your going to have to read the input one piece at a time, allocating a bigger buffer as you go. (realloc is the way to go here) I recommend putting the input reading code in a function do you can easily use it multiple times.