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I used to get EVGA bstock which was reasonable but they got out of the business 😞

I swapped to AMD this generation and it's still expensive.

Tossed it in the microwave and here we are

Fair enough it was a 2.5 nvme but 8tb m2 2280 disks have been on the market for literal years. You could get them in PCIe gen 3 ...

The reason it costs so much is because the chip industry is limiting supply again again to drive prices up after a few years of over producing. Not because there is something fancy in this drive.

This isn't bleeding edge at all. Just put a 15tb drive in a machine the other day and they are a couple years old at this point.

You know I've not seen a bonzibuddy in a long long time.

For reference Bing chat is still confidently sure there are 2

Ask an LLM how many Rs there are in strawberry

So... Just another Tuesday for consulting then?

They can be tracked back one by one but if you have any amount of traffic it's a constant game of cat and mouse.

You can block entire ASNs until they start using residential proxies provided by less ethical companies. Then you end up blocking all of France or destroying user experience by enforcing a captcha on everyone.

The type of request is not relevant. It's the cost of the request that's an issue. We have long ago stopped serving html documents that are static and can be cached. Tons of requests can trigger complex searches or computations which are expensive server side. This type of behavior basically ruins the internet and pushes everything into closed gardens and behind logins.

And they had arms