What ever happened to proof of work protocols? I remember in the 00's they were being touted as The Solution™ to our spam/bot woes. Are botnets just so large that even PoW doesn't significantly affect them?

With the caveat that I haven't checked his sources, The History Guy did a video [1] on the Avro Arrow program that goes into a lot of the Canadian aerospace industry history leading up to the program and its subsequent cancellation. Before this I had no idea how much of a sore point it was, and still is, with Canadians (just read the comments on the video if you need some examples).

[1] https://youtu.be/F4z5-l7u2Uo

I worked six years in the IT department of a small domestic manufacturer, and deciding when a model had outgrown Excel and needed to be created as a tool (sometimes just a pretty interface for our ERP system) was one of our main tasks. I hate the hell that users can bring on a company when they misuse Excel but it will never go away.

I have ADHD and discovering that setting was a godsend. It's definitely reduced the number of ublock origin rules I've had to create.

Ah, perhaps that explains the recent notice I got from ATT gifting me with their spam call notification service.

I'm disappointed that it's not served up by the one true http server for static sites, https://acme.com/software/thttpd/