Unintended solution for a CTF challenge

There has been a bit of discussion over on Gemini recently regarding poorly behaved bots. I feel I need to add some perspective from the other side; as a bot operator (even though I don’t operate Gemini bots). Writing a web spider is pretty easy on paper. You have your standards, and you can test against your own...

One of the first things new Emacs users learn is the eval-last-sexp (C-x C-e) command and that Emacs can interpret elisp anywhere it appears. Here’s a quick tip about using this command when writing elisp that you may not have discovered. If you call it with a prefix (C-u) argument, it prints (or attempts to print)...