My "audience" is motivated by it being very outdated software. If non of the exploits work they will think I've patched everything.

There must be more interesting targets out there?

If you are capable enough to hack appache the choice of target makes no sense.

My best security layer is that one first has to even find my websites. If you do there are plenty of better targets among them. From the business end however the most secure look the least secure.

It's a shared hosting account, if I try to send bulk email they will immediately unplug it.

That leaves only the glory of pwning the last instance of some obscure cms?

It would probably make me laugh? Everything will be back up within a week. Nothing of value is lost.

I play a long YouTube video (AI slop) on it and the low profit ads are both frequent and very long.

I just left it playing and didn't bother pressing skip. I'm 99% sure now the timer for the next add starts when the previous ad block starts. It runs ads for 2-10 minutes then plays only 20-30 seconds of video!

I Google for expensive products and services on my own phone. I play the same video and get one ad every 5-20 minutes. Sometimes it's just one short ad.

The moral of the story. If you are a good boy and buy all the subscriptions your time is more valuable and we won't have to bother you non stop.

When they invited our professors in the 80s they came back arguing China will eventually be the future. They listened to everything and started working on everything immediately.

We did the yes men privatization garage sale, gutted R&D, outsourcing, abolish education, housing, medical care. All that good stuff - but at what cost?

I understand there is no way back but it was a poor design choice. If you see a table on a website no one would put the alphabet in the top row. That you get a thousand columns by default also is a poor choice.

The thing is supposed to be data entry, organisation, presentation, calculation and data storage in one. Very ambitious, not a bad result but also not good at any of it. It makes relatively simple things terrifying lol

I remember my first thought looking at excel. They force name and number everything which is exactly like using single letter variables, they are only allowed for simple things. Using row numbers is even worse. Each additional col of numbers makes it harder to find things and it invites mistakes.

I'm not complaining, each solution survived because it has great advantages. JSON and XML have their place too ofc.

My gut says that after learning the advantages and disadvantages we should be able to make something better.

I put CSVs in html documents, use JS, run from the file system, output is CSV usually. I haven't tested the limit of html files but if you put a comment at the bottom the rendering engine ignores it efficiently.

One more bad solution for your collection.

lol

I of course asked him what he did when something stopped working. Happened quite a few times, (no surprise with all the dependencies)

Well, apparently the solution is to delete everything and just start over!

He did report bugs but even when they started fixing them immediately it took much to long for his taste.

He managed to glue code the project before so it should be easier the second time.

Back in the main channel I joked for days with much sarcasm how the regulars pet projects were either already done or could just be glued together in a few hours. All this ambition lol just get it done already.

Now that everything is even easier with llms you should probably generate the backup versions with different dependencies in advance.

I'll just continue to write everything from scratch by hand without autocomplete like a senile old man but to each their own :)

I have a funny request laying around for a mobile version of a 5000 row 50 column table. It works on my phone but I have no idea where I am. Im thinking and testing all kinds of things but nothing looks nice and it doesn't feel pleasant.

But in most cases there is no excuse for it.

No one cares if you clean up after your dog makes a nr 2. The anti dog poop people want to hear you don't give a fk and let Herman poop wherever he likes.

Similarly the dog owners don't want to hear you understand. They want you to talk about little poopers getting stuck in your barbed wire with razorblades.

Being able to talk to the higher-ups directly 24/7 all at the same time and as much as you want would be a game changer.

The domain name system is now just a rent seeking scheme. It was great as a temp solution but over time it has deleted more content than preserved. I might in theory be billed for having a country name but I don't pay for a city, street name, house number or postal code. Online you should be able to move your widget shop to widget street. Can bill people who want to live on real estate street or used car street and/or set some requirements.