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How do you tell if a computer game is being played by a human or a computer? Trackmania allows you to replay every keystroke. Enthusiasts have reverse engineered the game and measured what the fastest possible inputs are possible by hand!

Incredibly impressive: reverse-engineering and modifying SNES games so they run on the faster CPU in the cartridge, not the console CPU: https://www.retrorgb.com/vitor-vilelas-race-drivin-sa-1-hack-released.html

Running an HTTPS website with Let's Encrypt is increasingly becoming a built-in server feature. For example, Traefik (a reverse proxy for web services) has this functionality in its default feature set!