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Can we not just have a whitelist for allowed crawlers and ban the rest by default? Then places like DuckDuckGo and Google can provide a list of IP addresses that their crawlers wil…

logins are more easily banned, and highly complex captchas for signup needs a human to signup and solve. As long as it's easier to get banned than it is to signup it will at least …

It's going to get to the point where everything will be put behind a login to prevent LLM scrapers scanning a site. Annoying but the only option I can think of. If they use an acco…

Could you not instead of using one nmap process to scan 200+ addresses, just instead initiate 200+ nmap processes scanning just one IP. Still effectively hits your spoofing system …

> “This is an isolated, ‘one-of-a-kind occurrence’ that has never before occurred with any of Google Cloud’s clients globally,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and UniSuper CEO Pete…

Many are speculating that this will not be fixed by AWS (by design) however now that this has been discovered AWS will "need" to repair this flaw or they will start incurring custo…

The Wizard 8x22B is definitely for the high end, even the 2bit version. I attempted to run it on a workstation with RTX3090 and the performance was as bad as 1 word per 2 seconds. …

This will slowly but surely push many sites and systems like this onto Tor. Although Tor isn't perfect, keeping all Tor traffic in Tor on an onion address, does help mitigate track…

If you want to see a good train service look at Japan. Went there for a holiday and used the train service all over. They are a classic example of what a train service "should" be …

Although the variant is in the U.K it's not yet believed to have come from overseas travel. So maybe this is a variant that has a higher likelihood of mutation in a specific demogr…

Not as good in the U.K. but we do have some protections. A company can lock you into a contract however at the end of the contract it must default to a rolling 30 days term and the…

Although some engineers may disagree, this is one of the reasons I believe engineering should NOT be a protected industry/profession. Fine if the title was but not the action of do…

The problem is that with physical telecoms providers, you can mandate these LEI implementations. If the provider doesn't comply you ban the sale of the device. Yes, you can get a f…

You might be right in "most" cases but looking at the benchmarks, there is quite a few cases which are used a lot in everday computing where performance literally hits rock bottom.…

The no publishing terms is pretty much null and void outside the USA. Many non-US countries have unfair contract laws that make certain contracts (EULA) illegal and unenforceable. …

Except that due to GDPR (at least in Europe) automatically opting someone in now is against the law and will result in hefty fines. So for Europe, each major update should either r…

Well I for one will certainly avoid any product brand that is now part of the GPP. It is great getting discounts from things like Intel but like the age old saying, if it's too goo…

“ For Sale. Tesla Roadstar, cherry red. One owner. Covered 92 million miles. Buyer to collect. ”

Got to wonder the damage that will happen to the bird. The larger drones which these tests are for would do some serious damage to the birds legs if the pilot kept the motors turni…

There are many good tech startups and industries in the U.K. that would be able to do such things but with us leaving the EU it seems we might be heading down the same path and be …

When using a VPN (IPsec, OpenVPN, etc - something secure) then all the ISP will see is that you connected to your VPN IP and how much data volume was transferred. Since the traffic…

I do find such a law quite strange though. The intention (at least for public consumption) was to help "prevent" terrorism. Not sure how the NHS or health services seeing your brow…