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rce their other products or services -- many of which I've already told them numerous times I hate. I hate Bing. I hate Teams. I hate all that schlock they're peddling. And they keep making it more pervasive, and harder to turn off. And look, there's no UX improvements I enjoy, there's no features I need... Windows 11, and all of Microsoft's new features for Windows are just garbage. And it was hard to install, I had to do some hacky stuff to get my motherboard to spoof some settings so I could even put Windows 11 on what was at the time a 2-year-old computer. If I had one wish for Microsoft, it would be to stop trying to sell me things via the OS. Just build a good OS, and stop all the other crap. It's not making me say, "Gosh, I love all your new features!" It's making me actively look for alternatives. (1) https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 (2) https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts (3) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/47441/ho...

e will not take responsibility and will instead get upset with the VPS provider and move to a different provider and this has financial ramifications. Most VPS providers don't have the technical resources to track down the command-and-control nodes. This requires a higher level of visibility they do not have. The folks that have this level of visibility will not likely assist with bot noise unless the bots are also being used to steal government secrets or embarrass government officials or attack public infrastructure. There are ways to trick some of the bots into attacking public infrastructure but I would not want to be caught up in that legal quagmire as I am easy to find and bot owners are not. In summary, the best one can do is either configure systems to discard the noise in web logs and block low reputation IP addresses in their mail servers or if one feels the desire to do something, create tarpits/honeypots for the bots to get stuck in. Tarpits have very little impact on bots but if one wanted to feel like they were doing something it's a start. For example, I have numerous nodes that accept email for all the popular domains. Spam bots think they are relaying thousands of emails through my nodes per day but that is a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of the spam that people will receive. I am not even making a tiny dent in the problem. As a side note, there are ways to block some of these bots if you control your web and email servers but that is another topic all together and if too many people implemented such techniques then the bot developers would evolve around it. Apologies if this sounds defeatist. Some use blocklists [1][2] to reduce the noise on their web servers and RBL/RSL [3][4][5] servers to reduce the noise on their mail servers but this has limited efficacy and I think it just takes up memory by increasing the routing table or takes up CPU by making large ipset lists for iptables. [1] - https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets [2] - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts [3] - https://www.uceprotect.net/en/index.php?m=6&s=0 [4] - https://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/291.html [5] - https://www.spamhaus.org/zen/

.gd) (I'm not sure if Pckd or Shlink do the same, but it's likely they do) - FlyURL is built with Python and Flask (Shlink is built with PHP, and Pckd is built with React) If you want a URL shortener that just works, then FlyURL may fit for you. If you want more features and more robust, then Shlink and Pckd are better choices. [0]: https://github.com/PckdHQ/Pckd [1]: https://shlink.io/ [2]: https://is.gd [3]: https://ajusa.github.io/lit/docs/lit.html [4]: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts [5]: https://gist.github.com/HoangTuan110/e6eb412ed32657c841fcc2c... [6]: https://chilp.it