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by oasisbob 6mo ago
> The click IDs are likely to make the traffic look more like a human who has clicked a link rather than a bot? It's certainly possible. However, the traffic is still coming from Facebook's network with a FB proxy PTR record in
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by oasisbob 6mo ago
I want more data too. The root sources of the traffic from residential proxies gets murky very quickly. It's easy to follow the chain partway for some traffic, eg "Why are we receiving all this traffic from Digital Ocean? ... oh,
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by oasisbob 6mo ago
Knew it was getting bad, but Meta's facebookexternalhit bot changed their behavior recently. In addition to pulling responses with huge amplification (40x, at least, for posting a single Facebook post to an empty audience), it's s
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by oasisbob 7mo ago
Not too surprising in a society where we use the language of homicide and violence for trivial things like describing a good comedian.
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by oasisbob 7mo ago
If one is trying to avoid plagiarism, starting with an AI draft and polishing it to avoid signs of its true origins is not a good method.
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by oasisbob 7mo ago
This was the most delightful thing I've read in a long time.
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by oasisbob 7mo ago
For chart reporting? Am unfamiliar with the Nielsen standard, but given the state of musical metadata more broadly it's probably not very sophisticated. Would expect any provider like Spotify to just export the reports Nielsen requires
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by oasisbob 7mo ago
As someone who helps keep a site online with a lot of content, I have mixed feelings on Firecrawl. On one hand, their bots seem much more well behaved than others. However, running a crawler fleet which is deceptive and evasive in its ident
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by oasisbob 7mo ago
> Slack's data access policy is basically "No." For being a blog post about problems with Slack's policies, it's odd that it has no details whatsoever on what the issues actually are.
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
The paper makes the point that you need to consider L3 in client isolation too - they call this the gateway bouncing attack. If you can hairpin traffic for clients at L3, it doesn't matter what preventions you have at L2
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
Strongly disagree. The post is really poorly structured and circles the drain a few times getting to the thesis. The issues of style are annoying, but I find it much worse to wade through these 3000 word posts which are far longer than they
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
It's far longer than it needs to be because the writing process was too cheap.
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
> many retailers had no measurements for their own clothes except the reference size. When you say reference size, do you mean like a single size which is used in the industry for samples? I had a friend living in Montreal who was fashio
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
I've had a ton of fun using these lightweight desks as makeshift porta-ledges while climbing. Biggest downside is their lack of moisture resistance.
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
This issue didn't seem to discriminate. I was seeing deliverability failures to Office 365 clients as well as consumer-facing brands like hotmail and msn
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
Deliverability to Microsoft famously took a dive a bit over a year ago due to random arbitrary failures within their infrastructure causing DMARC/DKIM problems which they clearly were having problems diagnosing. Even with a six-figure
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
With a broad statement like this, I would usually just suggest this is inflammatory and surely overstated. However, I've also worked at a financial institution which used core systems by Harland Financial Systems. Their "encryptio
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
The plagiarism by the models is only part of it. Perhaps it's in such small pieces that it becomes difficult to care. I'm not convinced. The larger, and I'd argue more problematic, plagiarism is when people take this composit
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
Indeed. I'm confused by this line from the article > a study with 197 participants, the team could infer the identity of persons with almost 100% accuracy – independently of the perspective or their gait. The paper seems to make it
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
Given the number of gait analysis publications over several decades using varying techniques, can you recommend a good review article disproving all of them?
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
The approach described in the article is much different and more interesting, as it's passive and doesn't require any electronics on the individual being identified.
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
> The problem is that the vulnerability exploited by salt typhoon is a systemic flaw implemented at the demand of Cantwell and other of our legislative morons. Assuming you're talking about CALEA, I find it hard to blame Cantwell pe
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
I don't agree. I have two theories about these overused patterns, because they're way over represented One, they're rhetorical devices popular in oral speech, and are being picked up from transcripts and commercial sources eg
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by oasisbob 8mo ago
Traveling with ammo is not wise, but the number of people who accidentally try to fly with firearms is astronomical and penalties are usually light.
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
Usually. Previously. I raised this point on a previous Cloudflare blog post - they've turned quite vapid these days. If you pay attention, they're stuffed to the brim with generated text which is sloppy and under-opinionated on th
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
That is fun. Not sure if it's an American pronunciation thing, but I had to stare at that long and hard to see the problem and even after seeing it couldn't think of how you could possibly spell the correct word otherwise.
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
I'm not accusing you of dishonesty, I just don't understand the evidence you're putting forward to support your claim. Have you, as an experienced Wikipedia editor ever used AI to revise articles? What was your experience? Te
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
It bears all the hallmarks of AI writing: length, repetition, lack of structure, and silly metaphors. Nothing about this story is complex or interesting enough to require 1000 words to express.
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
> Like a lot of my peers I was using claude code CLI regularly and trying to understand how far I could go with it on my personal projects. Going wild, with ideas and approaches to code I can now try and validate at a very fast pace. Run
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
Exclusively IPv6 without any transitional mechanisms would be difficult to succeed with. However, there are network upstarts like Jio (India) which made huge v6 investments from day one which use 464xlat for subscribers to access v4-only re

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