While some of the things that Cloudflare do are only possible through their massive scale, they also do a lot of things that are perfectly fine to do successfully also on a smaller scale.

For one example of one such thing, see:

https://dev.to/carrie_luo1/how-i-replaced-cloudflare-waf-with-an-open-source-self-hosted-alternative-2k1h

Don’t be so quick to assume that its’ a mistake!!!

My questions is because im not deleting the disk im actually wiping the disk, where is it storing the code for the wipe disk operation to run from?

Without knowing anything about any of the software you’re asking about, I can still say that RAM would be a very good guess, anything that was read from disk would normally store itself in RAM before modifying the disk it was read from.

On the contrary, to me this is a really weird question, I struggle to guess why anyone would want to know what a random bunch of strangers think about this.

Why do you want to know this?

Why do you want to know this?

Once I ended up in a situation where I was required to be present in the office but didn’t actually have any tasks to perform (all work on our project had been halted by some patent lawsuit).

So I simply talked to my manager and asked if it’d be OK if I used the time I had to sit there with nothing to do to work on open source projects and after some initial confusion he agreed to this so that’s how I then spent my working days (until the work they actually paid me for eventually got going again).

That guilt is real. I readily admit to romcoms and kaiju movies, but knowing that every time I buy a ticket, I help feed the billion dollar slop machine, that stings.

no matter how horrendous the dub

You willingly watch dubbed movies!? Now that’s the first answer here for which I really understand the guilt.

Marvel movies.

One part of my full time job these past fifteen plus years has been to help maintain a foundational open source library that my employer and many many others are dependent on.

When it comes to total impact of open source work, I’m unlikely to ever surpass that.

I’m still using good ol’ Xournal. It isn’t really particularly good (and I’d be happy to find something better), but I’ve been using it since forever and the force of habit is strong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xournal

Today is just Tuesday, you have been misinformed.

One obvious use-case is to cause the file to get a new timestamp, which for example tools like make look at.

No, it isn’t, x writes only when changes have been made, while w writes unconditionally.

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I have watched this movie several times over the years, but I recently watched the 4K UHD Blu-Ray release of the 2012 50th anniversary digital restoration and it feels like this was the first time I truly saw the full greatness of this movie — until now I had always regarded it as a truly great movie, one of the great classics, but seeing it like this now finally made me see why so many of the greatest filmmakers who came after it are obsessed with it.

Casablanca

When they inevitably reboot Bond, it would be cool to see period adaptations of all the Fleming novels.

That’d be very cool, and it’d make me very happy if they started with making a seriously good adaptation of Moonraker.

I’d say Moonraker, which might be my favourite of the first books, but the movie adaptation keeps little more than the title and changes pretty much everything else (and as a result ends up being quite bad, receiving noticeably lukewarm reviews and nowadays often appearing in lists of worst Bond films ever).