mr_monkey

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by mr_monkey 8mo ago
This is not that, it's thousand of hits a minute on random endpoints, basically scraping everything all the time.
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by mr_monkey 8mo ago
Those botnets are hitting random endpoints thousands of times a minute. The problem is that each time they switch to a different residential IP so that they are untraceable. That's the frustrating part: not only do they not play by the
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by mr_monkey 8mo ago
We can't have a free internet that does not demand identification and data collection as a price to pay.
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by mr_monkey 8mo ago
MetaBrainz ended up rolling out their own tool, none of the other common suggestions being quite appropriate.
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by mr_monkey 8mo ago
Ah, yes, if the mafia comes to threaten your business for a protection racket, just abandon your shop, simple !
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by mr_monkey 2y ago
> De-enshittify by any means necessary! Damn straight! https://blog.metabrainz.org/2024/11/28/pissed-off-by-spotify...
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by mr_monkey 2y ago
Artist similarity is calculated from the listening history of all users. Basically if many people listen to artist X and artist Y within a short window of time, that counts towards their similarity score. Also artists that appear together o
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by mr_monkey 2y ago
I also want to add that MetaBrainz (the non-profit foundation that MusicBrainz and Picard are the base of) also have ListenBrainz, a music discovery platform that we built because of similar discontent over the way recommendations were goin
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by mr_monkey 2y ago
We're also working on that very same idea on our open-source music discovery platform ListenBrainz: https://listenbrainz.org/explore/lb-radio/ Basically because we had the same gripes about Spotify's &qu