Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

Post by hun3 » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 4:46 PM UTC

ycombinatrix wrote: post #198

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #52

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Just because you can hit a backend without a rate limit, doesn't mean you should . In my experience, government IT is very humorless about this sort of thing. Far better to blend in with normal traffic than to stand out as a bad actor.

"Your honor, the defendant took steps to hide their activities, showing that they knew it was wrong"

Just append

  X-Crawl-Reason: Finding spare license plates, throttled ONLY to prevent service disruption. To the best of my knowledge, [legalese claiming good faith and compliance to all applicable laws]

(Mandatory disclaimer: IANAL, ignorance is no excuse for breaking laws)

Post by eudamoniac » Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 6:47 PM UTC

array_key_first wrote: post #210

eudamoniac wrote: post #187

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This is a mockery of the term "slavery". It is no more slavery to be coerced to work for a shorter sentence than it is slavery to be coerced to follow the law to avoid prison. "Behave a certain way and you will be imprisoned for less/no amount of time" is not slavery unless the law is slavery. The full term imprisonment is just, and being able to shorten it is a privilege .

> The full term imprisonment is just, and being able to shorten it is a privilege. Even if you believe this, which I would describe as naive at best and willfully ignorant at worst, you have to understand that the parole is a carrot. It's not real. Georgia has some of the lowest, if not the lowest, parole stats in the country. They almost never hand it out, even if you are a good little prisoner and work on the field…

Okay, we can instead have the prisoners in their cells during that time instead of working. I'm sure they would prefer that, right? Except they have to apply for these jobs, so no, they wouldn't. Being in the cell is the default state of incarceration. They want to be out of it, even for free.

Words mean things. Slavery is something that is not occurring here. Argue amongst yourselves about the ethics of underpaying for the work, but don't invoke the word slavery.

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