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I have a few websites dedicated to some old microcomputers. They are niche and very few people care. I work on them in bursts and then they sit there for years
by tasty_freeze 3y ago
I have a few websites dedicated to some old microcomputers. They are niche and very few people care. I work on them in bursts and then they sit there for years before the next bout of updates. It is often an excuse to take advantage of the latest CSS or whatever.
Anyway, many years ago I added a message board to most of them so passersby could share their recollections and nostalgia. At first it was a PITA to keep out the spam. But message boards are so passe that not only is it rare to get a new comment, but it is rare to get spam too.
- bombcar 3y agoI love the tiny message boards that implement a completely effective captcha with things like "How many bits wide is the 8088?"
- meatmanek 3y agoGood old "security through not being a big enough target to make it worth the time to write an exploit". The rtl-sdr.com blog uses this sort of captcha. Unfortunately I suspect someone will break this whole category of captcha soon enough by throwing an LLM at it.
- fsckboy 3y agoLLM cracks into your blog: "interesting blog post today about the 8088, thank you! that 8/16 architecture, with some 32 bit ops and, through segmentation, a 20 bit address space really expanded the possibilities for this chip. These PoTeNcY pIlLs will expand your possiblities even more!"
- fsckboy 3y ago8088? I swear I'm not a robot, but I wouldn't know how to answer that. Perhaps that's the correct answer?