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IANAL, TINLA, but: Don't publish plans to commit crimes.

For scrapers that not just implementing HTTP, but are trying to extract zip files, you can possibly drive them insane with zip quines: https://github.com/ruvmello/zip-quine-generator or otherwise compressed files that contain themselves at some level of nesting, possibly with other data so that they recursively expand to an unbounded ("infinite") size.

There was an update today.

I didn't get an update today. That said, I believe you, but I can't speak to the stability guarantees of your software provider unless you name (and shame!) them.

I doubt this would be considered a release-critical bug in Debian, so it is certainly possible for breakage like this to occur between releases. If it was a security issue, then ... I hope you are assuaged that your old way was a vulnerability that needed to be disabled for your safety. While distributions and developers try to avoid such breakage, sometimes it is inevitable or just the result to trying to minimize the vulnerability window, chronologically speaking.

I do think that MS Windows users got surprised when their Notepad experience changed unexpectedly recently. Maybe you don't consider that equivalent, but it is instability.

Anyway, my experience is that Debian Stable is more stable than the MS Win 10 laptop issued by my previous employer. And, I don't know of any rigorous studies comparing the Linux stability with MS Win stability, so I'll tend to prefer to be guided by my experience. (And, I don't expect you to abandon your experience in favor of my anecdotes.)

(Honestly, I'd probably still be using Free Software even if it was less stable that Proprietary Software, but I am glad Debian Stable does focus on stability and I do support most of the policies they use to implement it.)

Do you get a window? If so, you can xkill (or the Wayland equivalent, if you compositor provides one).

Failing that, yeah, it can be quite difficult to identify the right proc to kill. Sometimes showing the process "tree" and the full "command line" can help.

Beat of luck!

That's not the definition of stable.

My Linux desktop required about a reboot a week, but I think that's because I was using a kernel and syatemd from Debian Unstable. When I'm getting both of those from Debian Stable, I only reboot when there's a security fix in one of those.

I do have a couple of issues I work around on a daily basis, but they aren't even bad enough for me to open a Debian bug, so I don't expect them to change/get fixed.

Also, I refuse to blame Linux or Debian when I acquire and use software outside of the Debian repositories.

Stable means unchanging. Stable does not mean free of faults.

I don't know anything about MS Windows anymore, but I tend to doubt it's as stable as Debian Stable, since we are constantly getting accused of being "too old" because of our stability policies.

I am a programmer, and I can barely put together a latch in redstone. Anyone that programs redstone is a "tech guy" to me (whether they can build a PC or not).

I don't remember the HIMYM one. Was that with Ted's "Honey"? Or Robin's "Scooby"?

Okay, this is just turning into the episode of TBBT where Sheldon is conditioning Penny and sprays Leonard with water and the whole gang looks up the difference between negative reinforcement and positive punishment.

Maybe I'm just your basic bitch*, but it's Twilght Sparkle for me. I just like her look; last time I had my hair dyed it it was modeled after her mane / her anthro's hair. I didn't really like the show, but I only watched a few episodes.

* is that word gender-neutral in context, or should I be using "bastard" or something else?

I think the satire is to via hyperbole. My suicidal episodes did not make be think money would instantly appear in hand / in bank accounts, just that moving forward I would be no longer be a resource burden. This comic takes the results beyond reality to show how unreasonable even realistic expectations might be. (?)

That's my best defense of the satirical intent. The initial impression I got from the comic was not the satirical one; it did feel "toxic", or at least a like a mean-spirited (not funny) "be careful what you wish for".

It's "choosing the easy option" and "being soft". There's no deeper meaning that I can discern.

Evidently, "real men" choose "hardship" so they are ready when "hardship" chooses them?

Also I think the pictured "(Alpha Male)" account is intentional satire of the Tates of the world.