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are scrapers attackers? I get they're DDoS; but take the mask off, and arn't they just the AI monied interests that fund the FSF? and a lot of them are just ac
by cyanydeez 4mo ago
are scrapers attackers?
I get they're DDoS; but take the mask off, and arn't they just the AI monied interests that fund the FSF? and a lot of them are just active inference, eg, the user is trying to ask about something and the AI monied interests setup a web scraper to go and get that data.
Just seems like no one wants to call out the hand that feeds them in a human centipede that's best described as the torment nexus.
- kaladin-jasnah 4mo ago> AI monied interests that fund the FSF Can you elaborate on who these interests are precisely?
- cyanydeez 4mo agoI tried: https://www.fsf.org/patrons https://www.fsf.org/patrons; the last FY listed is 2020.
- kaladin-jasnah 4mo agoI'm not entirely sure how those companies are related to "AI-monied" after clicking on their websites.
- cyanydeez 4mo agothe point is i tried to answer and the page is 6 years out of date....
- socratic_weeb 4mo agoThe point is that it is presumed that you must've gotten the info somewhere in order to back up your claims. If not this outdated website, where then?
- tokai 4mo agoSo you made shit up.
- thomzane 4mo agoThe patrons page is updated regularly.
- nemomarx 4mo agoinstead of scraping then, they could pay the fsf for a dump of the site or some API access or something, right? why overload the servers normally.
- GoblinSlayer 4mo agoThat's what commoncrawl does.
- nemomarx 4mo agocommon crawl pays the sites they crawl?
- m3047 4mo agoAnything which fills my logs with garbage is unwanted. Your cat could have fallen asleep on the keyboard, I don't care. If you want to use the internet as a giant petri dish, that's on you; but the cat box is elsewhere. I can feed you garbage or block you because your code is shit, or I don't like your style.