bobpaw

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   by bobpaw 2mo ago

   An excellent reminder that torrent file sharing is by itself neither a private nor an anonymous protocol. Will this make it easier for ISPs to penalize their irresponsible customers?
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   by bobpaw 6mo ago

   TIL about the Crawl-delay directive. Although it seems that most honest bots move slower and dishonest bots will learn to.
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   by bobpaw 7mo ago

   Some platforms did display notices like this for a while, but I noticed that they stopped the practice after a few months.
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   by bobpaw 7mo ago

   It is hard to test LLM legal/medical advice without risk of harm, but it is often exceedingly easy to test LLM generated code. The most aggravating thing to me is that people just don't. I think the best thing we can do is to enco
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   by bobpaw 8mo ago

   How can iText claim that adding Brotli is not a backward incompatible change (in the "Why keep encoding separate" table)? In the first section the author states that any new feature must work seamlessly with existing readers. New
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   by bobpaw 9mo ago

   I think the article takes issue not with fetching the code, but with fetching the go.mod file that contains index and dependency information. That’s why part of the solution was to host go.mod files separately.