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Re: GameBoy Workboy

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

therein wrote: post #39
mschuster91 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is the whack-a-mole game with hackers and script kiddies. It used to be the case that banning known colo ASNs was enough to get rid of nuisance by STROs, then there was a flood of hacked routers being used for DDoS that was really annoying to get rid of, and then came "residential IP" VPNs and commercial VPNs, both of which get routinely abused by AI scrapers and frankly, the AI scrapers are a worse enemy…

Almost as if you shouldn't be banning users because of their IP unless that IP specifically has openly attacked you. Or I guess you can just DENY ALL.

If all the traffic you see from a particular netblock is people posting hate speech, you're probably not losing much by dropping everything from that whole range.

Re: GameBoy Workboy

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Post by mschuster91 »

therein wrote: post #39
mschuster91 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is the whack-a-mole game with hackers and script kiddies. It used to be the case that banning known colo ASNs was enough to get rid of nuisance by STROs, then there was a flood of hacked routers being used for DDoS that was really annoying to get rid of, and then came "residential IP" VPNs and commercial VPNs, both of which get routinely abused by AI scrapers and frankly, the AI scrapers are a worse enemy…

Almost as if you shouldn't be banning users because of their IP unless that IP specifically has openly attacked you. Or I guess you can just DENY ALL.

> Almost as if you shouldn't be banning users because of their IP unless that IP specifically has openly attacked you.

There is no net benefit to allowing non-residential IP addresses by default, maybe add the Google search indexer to the exception list. And with residential IP addresses, unless you're international, it doesn't make sense to allow regions other than your target markets.

The only way to deal with the bot traffic plagueing the modern internet is to cut off as much traffic as you reasonably can.

Re: GameBoy Workboy

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Post by cl3misch »

archargelod wrote: post #57
xstas1 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had never heard of the Playdate but it looks like a very interesting device... and... I want it? Would you suggest getting one?

I would've got one if it wasn't so pricey for these specs. You can get a cheap Anbernic for 40-60$ running linux, with decent ARM CPU and a good backlighted screen.

...but what do you do with it? Play emulators? The Playdate has bespoke games designed for it, and many people say it's worth the price.

Tbh I find it a bit weird to talk about leisure devices like a handheld in terms of pure specs as if it was a server for number crunching. I use it to have fun, and (for me at least) a huge part of that is UI and ease-of-use.

Re: GameBoy Workboy

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Post by Arelius »

xstas1 wrote: post #55
remywang wrote: post #37

I had some good fun writing non-gaming apps for the playdate console including a browser [1] and Kagi news mirror [2] and feel the device has great potential as an alternative to android/iOS duopoly [1]: https://github.com/remysucre/ORBIT [2]: https://github.com/remysucre/cranky-news

I had never heard of the Playdate but it looks like a very interesting device... and... I want it? Would you suggest getting one?

It's a neat piece of hardware, but honestly I never wanted to play any of the games. I don't really know for to do discovery for it, and none of the ones I tried stuck for me, honestly, I prefer to emulate games from my childhood, or retro/indie games I already have on my back-log.

Re: GameBoy Workboy

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Post by pinheadmz »

MBCook wrote: post #54

I remember this being shown in Nintendo Power. As the kind of kid who liked computers and gadgets I really wanted one, and read the article many times. But of course it never came out.

Me too. I even cut out the pictures from the magazine and pasted on to cardboard to pretend I had it already. I can't believe the YouTube guy got one ...?!

Re: GameBoy Workboy

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Post by gilrain »

cl3misch wrote: post #73
archargelod wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would've got one if it wasn't so pricey for these specs. You can get a cheap Anbernic for 40-60$ running linux, with decent ARM CPU and a good backlighted screen.

...but what do you do with it? Play emulators? The Playdate has bespoke games designed for it, and many people say it's worth the price. Tbh I find it a bit weird to talk about leisure devices like a handheld in terms of pure specs as if it was a server for number crunching. I use it to have fun, and (for me at least) a huge part of that is UI and ease-of-use.

> ...but what do you do with it? Play emulators?

Yep!

> The Playdate has bespoke games designed for it …

Not quite as many as [every 2D home or portable console]. For instance, I enjoy [dozens and dozens of Nintendo games], but there are thousands of others to choose from.

Re: GameBoy Workboy

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Post by archargelod »

cl3misch wrote: post #73
archargelod wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would've got one if it wasn't so pricey for these specs. You can get a cheap Anbernic for 40-60$ running linux, with decent ARM CPU and a good backlighted screen.

...but what do you do with it? Play emulators? The Playdate has bespoke games designed for it, and many people say it's worth the price. Tbh I find it a bit weird to talk about leisure devices like a handheld in terms of pure specs as if it was a server for number crunching. I use it to have fun, and (for me at least) a huge part of that is UI and ease-of-use.

> but what do you do with it?

Yes, emulators up to PS1/NDS. There are also many bespoke and commercial linux games that run on these devices via portmaster[0] (for commercial games you need to provide your own files).

I use my 34XX clamshell to listen to podcasts and audiobooks in rockbox [1].

If you take some time to setup alternative OS (e.g. MuOS) there is a good video player and even terminal emulator available with root shell.

And of course, you can write your own games and apps to run on it (SDL, pico8, Godot, Love2D, etc).

[0] https://portmaster.games/

[1] https://portmaster.games/detail.html?name=rockbox

Re: GameBoy Workboy

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Post by mschuster91 »

deadbabe wrote: post #34
mschuster91 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is the whack-a-mole game with hackers and script kiddies. It used to be the case that banning known colo ASNs was enough to get rid of nuisance by STROs, then there was a flood of hacked routers being used for DDoS that was really annoying to get rid of, and then came "residential IP" VPNs and commercial VPNs, both of which get routinely abused by AI scrapers and frankly, the AI scrapers are a worse enemy…

What are they doing exactly?

In what I have seen personally, creating absurdly more load by hitting "expensive" pages that no normal user would ever click in that frequency. The AI scraper bots are really, really dumb - they just follow everything that looks like a link.

Another particularly annoying thing was when spam bots got brainy enough (if I were to guess with AI?) that managed to bypass our maths captcha. That one really still pisses me off because I don't like to torture users or having to use GDPR-violating services.

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