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Yes, it is a sliding scale. I'd prefer to stay nearer this end of the scale, not that end.

> not user, an agent on behalf of the user. Identified by the user agent header. Which most bots fake or leave out to increase the chance of getting where they are not wanted. Your…

> If I run a local script or an LLM that needs to fetch a web page from your site and you block that script or LLM as being a bot, you hurt me, the user You are mistaking yourself,…

In some cases being told "just treat it like you are a manager", when we've always done our level best to avoid anything vaguely like management because we like doing things partic…

UK, unless you are quiet about it. Though you might not notice as our reaction only tends to be in body language, or for particularly loud speakers (particularly those who are GOIN…

A significant part of science is plucking the true bits from common sense. A fair chunk of what we call medicine is folk remedies that stood up to rigorous testing.

> Is there a common source of extra \r in malformed inputs, beyond those existing as part of \r\n? Old Macs and some other systems use \r as their EOL, I still sometimes see that w…

> Isn't scalping a term used for tickets? It is also a term use in general trading anywhere traders open and close their positions quickly to make profit off an upswing which might…

It is deliberately targeting known AI-scapers, or anything it sees as a bot? Could it be that other scrapers are pulling the pages, without making the extra requests to get ad rela…

Same, I tend to assume it is a sign that AI is used across the board. But please keep it coming. I need to spend less time idly browsing and the growing preponderance of AI is help…

> Although i was under the impression that they usually preferred hand optimized assembly. Using LLMs/agents to do gap analysis and fill boilerplate doesn't rule out also reviewing…

> The vast majority of CVEs are not exploitable, basically noise. This is not true if you consider security-in-depth. Many of them are exploitable on their own but maybe not in com…

> it's rude to ship your first draft To whom this should concern: Oh, do pop off. Bothering to write/edit anything yourself should be given bonus points these days, not pulled apar…

Possibly because they hope for gainful employment in future, and being a whistleblower of any variety tends to massively reduce the chances of that.

I'm not sure about less targetted bots, but I gave a friend an account on my media server without locking off shell access (which she had no need for), and it turns out that she us…

That doesn't look to me like it would find many real credentials. It is collecting the credentials that automated bots are trying to use, some of them, perhaps many of them, will b…

Sounds like something a machine (or someone planning to make money out of renting out access to that machine) would say! I admit there is a certain hypocrisy between my irritation …

The problem with adding slang to any organised education program is two-fold: some of it changes much more quickly than you course materials can, and much of it is quite localised.…

Something wore out from overuse, with everyone, including AI-training scrapers, filtering on “three years or older” to get non-AI output…

Most of what I watch is 1080p (I don't really have 4K capable eyes!) but it definitely plays 4K 265 well. Only 265 though, the hardware support for 264 is limited to 1080 so 4K the…

If they are actually doing some work (editing significantly after generation) then they are protected on two fronts (currently, active cases may change this): * as discussed elsewh…

Again, that seems to be talking about fully AI generated work, like “works created solely by machines” from the previous document, not AI-aided work. It is only stating that the pr…

A Pi4 does the job well too. They can be had noticeably cheaper than Pi5s ATM, if you don't have the luck of having a device lying around ready to be repurposed, and even the 1Gb m…

The streaming sticks the article is discussing basically need network access to function. They might support streaming from local media sources and file shares too, but that is als…

> Why would there need to be a stigma for getting paid based on a tool they used? Is it being used a tool, or is it being used as a ghostwriter? There is often stigma attached to t…