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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 app…

> Which tendency dominates, under what conditions, and to whose benefit are material questions. Close, but not quite. They are political questions. And crucially, political questio…

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 …

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 com…

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 princip…

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 …

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 entirel…

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 …

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 broug…

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…

> The crawlers could just as well be search engine startups. And yet they are not. So what does that tell you?

None of the AIs have any 'knowledge' to begin with, so that's an easy one to satisfy.

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 …

> 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…

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 t…

> 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 f…

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 contribut…

The license allowing for something does not mean you are okay with anyone being part of your community.

That is about licenses, not about community participation, let alone community policy or sponsorships. Those are all very different things with very different considerations. (Sign…

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 eventu…

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…

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 widesp…

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.

> It is your money so it is your responsibility to protect it. This is victim blaming.

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 th…