curiousbean

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by curiousbean 3y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I don't think it would work.
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by curiousbean 3y ago
I appreciate the idea, but it's also a border line crime if you end up bringing down the requester (not that I would shed any tears).
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by curiousbean 3y ago
I offer a suggestion. Detect the scraper's IP/fingerprint and return deplorable porn instead of the original image.
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by curiousbean 3y ago
I don't know how someone uses 1TB of bandwidth so easily. My service is somewhat popular and I see ~200k requests per-day at least and I hardly hit 50GB/month? I am on Linode and serve assets/html/css/js and api res
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by curiousbean 3y ago
It's much easier to open ZAP/Burp and intercept iOS/Android traffic to grab API keys.
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by curiousbean 3y ago
First off-- Nima is a person of interest. It doesn't mean he's guilty of anything. Even if they were in a car together, argued and Bob left the car and walked it doesn't mean Nima killed the man. I assume (and hope) the polic
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by curiousbean 3y ago
Well, as someone who's been following the progress of AI language models like Bard, ChatGPT, and others, I'd say we're getting closer to the point where these systems could crawl sites like HN for answers. However, there are
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by curiousbean 3y ago
Well, I've been through a few layoffs in my time as a software engineer. It's never easy, but I try to keep a level head and stay focused on the future. In terms of how it affected my psyche, I'd say it definitely had an impa
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by curiousbean 3y ago
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