Deebster

A previous version of this claimed that it could distinguish between male and female mosquitos (the ones that bite). It used the different wingbeat frequencies, if memory serves.

It feels that a point-defence system is less harmful than gassing the whole area, which is what e.g. hotels do now.

This was mentioned in the article, although not the fact that it was faked.

I can believe that the tech has improved enough to not need faking this time around.

FYI, you’ve added a link where the label is the URL and the actual link is empty. You can fix this by removing the [ and ]() around the link. If the link is there as plain text, it gets a hyperlink automatically: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudflare-program-charges-bots-for-each-crawl/

I can save you a click by saying it’s a Discord bot that notifies when people join the voice chat, but it’s a nice read and not too long.

I thought that /dev/shm was strictly for shm_open() but it seems that all that does is open a file in /dev/shm anyway.