joepie91_

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by joepie91_ 1mo ago
and as we all know, a random off-hand internet comment will provide more credible analysis than a large-scale study
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by joepie91_ 2mo ago
There may be some device on your network that's being abused as a residential proxy by "AI" companies, causing you to get caught in scraper block waves. A lot of sketchy mobile apps especially tend to bundle this kind of malw
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by joepie91_ 2mo ago
> Which tendency dominates, under what conditions, and to whose benefit are material questions. Close, but not quite. They are political questions. And crucially, political questions to which we already know the answer in the current s
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by joepie91_ 2mo ago
The people who would argue about how unfair it is that they got kicked out of somewhere because they flew too close to the sun, are also the same people who will rules-lawyer your "easy" list of rules and invent loopholes if they
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by joepie91_ 2mo ago
Given that they're a non-profit membership association with explicitly political goals where every new user represents a direct cost to the organization, and not a startup on a comfortable cushion of VC moneybags looking to pump the nu
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by joepie91_ 2mo ago
Just because the fundamental principles cannot trivially be summarized into a single sentence, doesn't mean they don't exist. It's a member association, and the fundamental principles form organically from its membership. Tha
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by joepie91_ 2mo ago
You can literally take the exact same software that Codeberg uses, Forgejo, and stand up your own alternative with different policies, with the only real cost being operational in nature. It seems less the case that it's a "low-ca
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by joepie91_ 5mo ago
That's entirely a predicament of Microsoft's own making, though. Don't forget that they're the ones who launched "AI" programming into the hype cycle to begin with. So it's entirely reasonable to hold them
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by joepie91_ 5mo ago
I'd be very wary about such specific surveys, because they're often very much not conducted in a scientifically responsible manner, and based on actual studies across the spectrum of political issues there's basically no al
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by joepie91_ 1y ago
This is a defeatist argument. That it's technically possible to abuse things doesn't mean the responsibility needs to fall on the defending party, especially not when that is brought up in response to asking someone to reflect on
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by joepie91_ 1y ago
Have you actually tried blocking these scraper bots? The whole problem is that if you do, they start impersonating normal browsers from residential IPs instead. They actively evade countermeasures.
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by joepie91_ 1y ago
> The crawlers could just as well be search engine startups. And yet they are not. So what does that tell you?
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by joepie91_ 1y ago
None of the AIs have any 'knowledge' to begin with, so that's an easy one to satisfy.
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by joepie91_ 1y ago
There are a few ways in which bots can fail to get past such challenges, but the most durable one (ie. the one that you cannot work around by changing the scraper code) is that it simply makes it much more expensive to make a request. Like
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by joepie91_ 1y ago
> I think uncontrolled price of cloud traffic - is a real fraud Yes, it is. > and way bigger problem then some AI companies that ignore robot.txt. No, it absolutely is not. I think you underestimate just how hard these AI companies ha
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by joepie91_ 2y ago
What likely happened here is that they were raising prices due to increased costs for energy and various other costs, and if they hadn't made this change then they would have had to increase the price more , so relative to that it kee
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by joepie91_ 2y ago
> Git, or any file-server based software, is not built to scale up well in today's world. Large Git hosters have to invest entire teams to manage their file servers and their Git front-end systems to create a web-scale service on to
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by joepie91_ 2y ago
It does not. And not only is this particular letter signed by many active contributors, the issues far predate this one letter (with this one demand), and many well-known contributors have been involved in speaking out against the current s
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by joepie91_ 2y ago
The license allowing for something does not mean you are okay with anyone being part of your community.
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by joepie91_ 2y ago
That is about licenses, not about community participation, let alone community policy or sponsorships. Those are all very different things with very different considerations. (Signed, someone who absolutely does not want military contract
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by joepie91_ 2y ago
It's a bit more complex than that. They applied to be a sponsor twice; the community objected twice; the Foundation approved both. In one of those cases, the sponsorship was eventually rejected because the venue where the conference wa
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by joepie91_ 2y ago
I imagine that the people who are unhappy about things are well aware of that, given that they generally are the people who have built NixOS to the point where it is now... It sure is remarkable how many people seem to be assuming that th
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by joepie91_ 2y ago
During the time that this became a frequently-repeated marketing talking point, 'regular' hosting providers with one-day turnaround or even instant provisioning were already widespread. It was never really the revolutionary featur
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by joepie91_ 2y ago
That "default" is typically set by the language choice in the OS, which is exactly why it is reliable, because people understand language selectors just fine.
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
> It is your money so it is your responsibility to protect it. This is victim blaming.
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
You can call someone an 'engineer' with the associated responsibilities when they are getting paid for what they are doing like an engineer, in a setting that provides them with the protections of an engineer. Until that point, th
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
I wouldn't say this about a lot of channels, but in the case of Tom Scott I think it applies: just pick a couple-minute video from his channel that seems interesting from the title, and give it a shot. The quality and enthusiasm are im
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
I mean, there's plenty of UX innovation going on in the fediverse, for example. But for some reason bringing that up is consistently met with "that can't ever work! nobody can understand this! it's too difficult!" a
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
I don't think most of the criticisms towards Google literally assert that the top brass demanded specific technical decisions. Rather, "the top brass demanded it" or variations thereof is meant as shorthand for "the top
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by joepie91_ 3y ago
Honestly, the original post could have been a joke, or it could not have been. I regularly talk to people who seem to genuinely believe this sort of thing (on this topic and others).

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