imilk

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by imilk 1y ago
Well a good step is to never give your clients full admin permissions in WP so that they can install plugins or mess with theme files.
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by imilk 1y ago
Well we have hosted 10 small business WP sites per $10 DigitalOcean droplet for the last decade. There are not additional plugin costs on any of them. And there has been no real maintenance needed. I'm not saying WP is great. Taking ov
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by imilk 1y ago
> let them SFTP some markdown files Have you ever worked with any SMBs before? This is at least 5 technical levels above their head. Would make as much sense as telling them, "just use this CLI tool". We're talking about p
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by imilk 1y ago
Exactly, since they can bill those as conversions (like phone calls, bookings, reservations, etc) rather than simply website visits
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by imilk 1y ago
that's why systems architects are supposed to get paid well, because there are a lot of different stakeholders to consider
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by imilk 1y ago
Not really because most of the links in current AI overviews for many queries keep you in the Google ecosystem, such as links to Google Business profiles on Google Maps. And Google has recently changed Google Business profiles to make outbo
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by imilk 1y ago
> Most people here have commented that they prefer AI responses to raw search results Strangely enough, I've seen the exact opposite response on here. Especially since the AI overviews are often plain wrong and/or misleading. M
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by imilk 1y ago
A systems architecture perspective should be very very inclusive of the business perspective.
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by imilk 1y ago
Have used supabase a bunch over the last few years, but between this and open auth issues that haven't been fix for over a year [0], I'm starting to get a little wary on trusting them with sensitive data/applications. [0] ht
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by imilk 1y ago
> We never distinguished automations from people though, that makes no sense on the internet. LOL I see you've never sold anything on the internet, ran a website that is supposed to generate leads, or had to gauge the effectiveness
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by imilk 1y ago
Google has clearly decided to keep users on their platform longer, hoping that this will lead to more ad clicks. There is a clear reason why AI overviews very seldomly link to outside websites, and why website links are much more hidden on
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by imilk 1y ago
Probably because that's one of the only things you can say to Google these days that will escalate it from an low level support agent on the other side of the world.
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by imilk 1y ago
Vastly varies on what type of website you have, how many pages you have, and how often they are updated. We routinely see 1000's of requests per minute coming from AI bots and the scraping lasts for hours. Enough to make up 20-30% of o
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by imilk 1y ago
...that's literally the entire point of this article. People don't want their websites being de-listed from the monopoly that controls organic traffic. At the same time they would like some control over stopping companies (in this
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by imilk 1y ago
Well besides them being abusive, the other issue is that AI overviews and answer boxes cannibalize traffic to websites, leading to less conversions for the original content producers. This is pretty well established across industries at thi
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by imilk 1y ago
What has been democratic about how the internet has evolved over the last 2 decades? Because as far as I can see, the internet has undergone a massive centralization into the hands of a few players with practically no regulation. Especially
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by imilk 1y ago
Both are an issue. People don't want AI overviews cannibalizing their website traffic. People also don't want AI bots spamming their website with outrageous numbers of requests everyday.
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by imilk 1y ago
There is nothing stopping other CDN/DNS providers from implementing similar services and tools to what Cloudflare offers. Part of the reason CF has become so popular is because so many of their competitors don't offer nearly the s
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by imilk 1y ago
I find it wild that you focus on CF being a monopoly here when they are providing tools that help publishers not have all of their content stolen and repurposed. AI companies have been notorious over the last few years for not respecting an
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by imilk 1y ago
There are about a dozen Google crawlers that can hit your website for different reasons: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/... Google-Extended is what is associated with AI crawling,
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by imilk 1y ago
I come to the exact opposite conclusion. A few large companies scraping and repurposing original content from publishers kills original content on the internet because it takes out the ability to earn a livelihood from creating original con
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by imilk 1y ago
Having perplexity or other AI bots go haywire and sending 10s of thousands of requests per minute to your website (despite you having a robots.txt blocking them) is a giant pain in the ass. Not only does your server costs go up, but your an
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by imilk 1y ago
> Again it sounds like the people who are upset by this really want to publish images rather than web pages. More like people don't want to lose money because a 3rd party stole all of their content, and then repurposed it to show pe
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by imilk 1y ago
On multiple client sites that have > 1 million unique real visitors per month, we are seeing some days where ~25-30% of requests is from AI crawlers. Thankfully we block almost all of this traffic. But it is a huge pain because it add an
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by imilk 1y ago
Google has made it very difficult to completely block their AI crawling by also using the standard googlebot search crawlers to feed data into their AI overviews and other AI features within Google search. Google says there is a workaround
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by imilk 2y ago
While they have a Github repo, it is incredibly annoying how it's almost impossible to find any documentation around deployment/hosting. Unless I missing an obvious page
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by imilk 3y ago
> I believe Tesla thought they would be further along with FSD than they are Well Musk has been promising that it will be fully ready next year for the last decade. Which sounds like a horrendous expectation to work under as an engineer
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by imilk 3y ago
> I don’t believe that the team are lying. That would be really crazy if the team behind a crypto startup just lied about their business and intentions - certainly has never happened before!
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by imilk 3y ago
Sounds like the name of a startup thats going to put fence contractors out of business in a few years before getting sued for not classifying their workers as employees.
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by imilk 3y ago
That's just not true and conspiracy nonsense.

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