Jskewel

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by Jskewel 5d ago
Impossible. The majority of websites firewall automated crawler traffic (because of the rise of the bots), only making exceptions for the largest search engines. There is no possibility of starting a new crawler.
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by Jskewel 7d ago
4%-6% of iPhone sales, but not of profits.
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by Jskewel 9d ago
Satya Nadella said he was going to make Windows less cr*p. Having a wallpaper advert is clownish and grotesque, so did he lie?
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by Jskewel 14d ago
We have the absurd situation where human-made websites are by default blocking AI training bots (see Cloudflare etc), but AI is creating websites solely to be fed to AI training bots. So within a few years, most of the ingested website cont
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by Jskewel 18d ago
I didn't realise using <> made me old-school, time for a find-and-replace in my PHP codebase!
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by Jskewel 22d ago
Not nearly fast enough on 32GB, would like to be wrong though.
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by Jskewel 22d ago
The M6 is useless for AI. Is there any model which is actually useful and fast on 32GB?
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by Jskewel 23d ago
PPWR is an EU catastrophe. Firstly for the reasons outlined in the article: it essentially makes being a micro/small business in the EU impossible, if your market is other EU countries. Secondly because it validates insidious populist
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by Jskewel 27d ago
"there is a very good chance this civilization will probably come to an end" OK doomer
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by Jskewel 28d ago
It's almost unbelievable that a step-tracker can have 2 years battery.
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Is msnbot being used to train AI models?
2 points by Jskewel 1mo ago|0 comments
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by Jskewel 1mo ago
With Cloudflare you can set a rule to block traffic that identifies as Googlebot but is not a "verified bot", ie is not from the proper IP range.
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by Jskewel 1mo ago
I'm happy to unblock China from accessing my website, once China does something about the millions of daily hack attempts originating from that country.
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by Jskewel 1mo ago
For those suggesting fail2ban as a solution, that's dinosaur software from the palaeolithic. If you have a website of any size then the number of bots will overwhelm the block list in days with their millions of unique IPs.
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by Jskewel 1mo ago
Cloudflare analytics is great, but you need to filter by edge status code 200 to see the actual real traffic that was allowed through their firewall.