griomnib

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by griomnib 2y ago
Ohhhh, just lots and lots of code with subtle bugs!
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by griomnib 2y ago
A simpler approach I’m considering is just sending 100 garbage HTTP requests for each garbage HTTP request they send me. You could just have a cron job parse the user agents from access logs once an hour and blast the bastards.
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by griomnib 2y ago
There are many companies that charge “x” per weight of “y” to go from “a” to “b”. How they get “y” from “a” to “b” is complex, but the actual pricing is quite simple compared to bespoke business solutions. It’s just freight.
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by griomnib 2y ago
This sort of cuts both ways, I’m on the small business selling side. Sometimes somebody will want a call, I’ll do my dance, tell them the price, then they try to nickel and dime to get a lower price - which isn’t on offer. That blows a lot
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by griomnib 2y ago
Napster had a moment too, but then they got steamrolled in court. Courts are slow, so it seems like nothing is happening, but there’s tons of cases in the pipeline. The media industry has forced many tech firms to bend the knee, OpenAI will
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by griomnib 2y ago
I think it’s safe to assume anything Sam A says is an outright lie by now.
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by griomnib 2y ago
An iot botnet + command and control infra cooks this entire idea.
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by griomnib 2y ago
April 20th as you’d have to be high as hell to think this was a good idea.
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by griomnib 2y ago
Clearly there are more than a few of us.
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by griomnib 2y ago
I think this is a bit of a warped view as this is true for the biggest channels , but the medium and long tail on YouTube has a lot of substance in computer science, engineering, geology, climate science, and much more. When I was a kid th
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by griomnib 2y ago
I use Linux all day on the server, but I’ve never liked it on desktop. I do think I’ll be forced into it within a few years.
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by griomnib 2y ago
Usually when they shamelessly copy from Android they made some improvements, this isn’t even close to material on Pixel, which is pretty nice. (Not a fanboy of either; use both.)
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by griomnib 2y ago
Hey, just pay extortion prices for more storage!
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by griomnib 2y ago
Because they made it a worse product , they made it my job to fix it. That’s the point.
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by griomnib 2y ago
Yes I had to do that, which is my entire point - everything worked, and they made it worse .
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by griomnib 2y ago
If I wanted to type in commands to install my OS I’d use Linux desktop.
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by griomnib 2y ago
Mail is dogshit. Photos is dogshit. Image playground is streaming hot dog shit. Etc etc.
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by griomnib 2y ago
I’m sure they have some “magical” Cupertino world for infighting assholes putting their careers before users, whatever that may be.
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by griomnib 2y ago
Yeah pretty sure the aliens are going to struggle more with there, they’re, and their.
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by griomnib 2y ago
I have experienced this most acutely with the most recent round of macOS and iOS updates. Nothing Apple is shipping seems to be for me, the user. Rather it’s a grab bag of crap “AI” for Wall Street, ways to make it harder to run software
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by griomnib 2y ago
Yeah but it’s just shit engineering. They re-crawl entire sites basically continuously absent any updates or changes. How hard is it to cache a fucking sitemap for a week? It’s a waste of bandwidth and CPU on their end as well, “the bitter
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by griomnib 2y ago
I really wonder if these dogshit scrapers are wholly built by LLM. Nobody competent codes like this.
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by griomnib 2y ago
I’ve been a web developer for decades as well as doing scraping, indexing, and analyzing million of sites. Just follow the golden rule: don’t ever load any site more aggressively than you would want yours to be. This isn’t hard stuff, and t
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by griomnib 2y ago
Believing you are smarter than 90% of people is the “data”.
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by griomnib 2y ago
You do realize there are other reasons to need service than tech support right? Like having to fight an insurance company to get the life saving medical care you pay them thousands of dollars for?
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by griomnib 2y ago
Not until it can take you out for steaks, booze, and strippers.
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by griomnib 2y ago
The funny thing is you can’t hide how bad this shit is because at some point everybody who doesn’t have a personal assistant has to deal with customer support of some sort. And holy fucking shit has AI made every single interaction with a c
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by griomnib 2y ago
Shows that having H1Bs you can hold hostage lets you get away with anything. If it weren’t for their captive workforce they would have had far bigger problems than an unreliable service, rapidly declining user base, and imploding revenue.
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by griomnib 2y ago
Dreamforce is basically a cult gathering.
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by griomnib 2y ago
“Over the past years, EFF has taken millions in funds from Google and Facebook via straight donations and controversial court payouts that many see as under-the-radar contributions. Hell, Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s foundation gave EFF

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