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by ricardo81 1y ago
True. It'd be illuminating to know how far and wide it is used. It was always been my go-to library for parsing XML in a number of languages.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
With Google aggressively blocking bots on search, likely due to AI scraping- it wouldn't surprise me that the view counts are also affected by bot detection.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
WHOIS used to be semi useful, though most records tend to be redacted for the average user now. `dig` on DNS also, if it resolves to the same IP as paypal for example, that adds confidence. Though again, nowadays less useful due to a lot of
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by ricardo81 1y ago
I'm definitely not one who thinks about these things deeply (as others surely do more), though the act of having a private conversation seems sacrosanct, why should distance or medium be a factor.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
>Pagerank Also a lot of site owners are reluctant to link out. So much so that 'nofollow' had been reduced to a hint rather than a directive.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
Not GP but presumably implying that is not how you treat friends and/or a policy targetting China has collateral damage.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
Any respectable web scale crawler(/scraper) should have reverse DNS so that it can automatically be blocked. Though it would seem all bets are off and anyone will scrape anything. Now we're left with middlemen like cloudflare that
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by ricardo81 1y ago
>an ideological game of capture the flag I prefer the whack a mole analogy. I've seen forums where people spend an inordinate amount of time identifying 'bad bots' for blocking, there'll always be more.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
Somewhat related, I Found cursor/VS was slowing to the point of being unusable. Turning on privacy mode helped, but the main culprit was extremely verbose logging. Running `fatrace -c --command=cursor` discovered the issue. The disk in
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by ricardo81 1y ago
I'd never used Tor, though had to scrape a bunch of things that required different IPs. I figured their endpoints were already tarred. With the porn block in the UK though, the "New Private Window with Tor" in Brave is very c
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by ricardo81 1y ago
Agreed. Cloudflare released these insights showing the disparity between crawling/scraping and visits referred from the AI platforms. https://radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights#crawl-to-refer-rati...
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by ricardo81 1y ago
I don't know the finer details of that, but weren't they already travelling towards obscurity by the time she arrived? Yahoo was a defacto entry point into the wider web and as Google gained popularity I think the average web savv
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by ricardo81 1y ago
Agreed. I'd pay £10/m for a browser that fits with my use case. I imagine there's a critical mass of other people willing to do the same.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
The LCOE of solar/wind is the cheapest but it does not seem to be common knowledge. The lack of common knowledge often is some kind of polarised political beliefs, from what I've seen Marginal pricing seems to be a large part of t
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by ricardo81 1y ago
There may be already existent threads covering my thoughts Big tech algorithms are filled with absolute dog shit. What were previously information discovery algorithms have been replaced by, basically dog shit. I have gave up on Facebook, T
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by ricardo81 1y ago
Improbable considering it was a CS idea in 1970. Surely every idea for GPGPU was fair game. I wrote a hashcash implementation on a GPU 10 years ago. Pretty sure it's valueless now.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
I've used dozens of VPS providers in the past, albeit 'low end' in this instance- they constantly change IP addresses because they're renting them, buying them, etc. For IPv4 definitely a problem. I maybe used around 100
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by ricardo81 1y ago
Exciting language, a ctrl+f for 'phishing' returned nothing. Then there's IPv4 exhaustion with that in hand: I could see phishing being a problem for any notable website. But having certs for IPs does seem like a nice option
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by ricardo81 1y ago
I'd noticed this behaviour while using Brave browser and experienced the half-dozen second lag and a small popover on the bottom left that when clicked on said "it's because you're blocking ads" I see also now that
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by ricardo81 1y ago
Our old countries (and their tech) building on top of old. Developing countries have less of a hassle with implementing something based on state of the art. Lots of hassles with getting new phone lines, new power lines et al in the UK based
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by ricardo81 1y ago
This is one of those ones where it's awkward with a certain crowd. At some point SSL was https and class C meant a /24 subnetwork for webmaster types. I've found that certain crowds will get angry about the vernacular vs a cr
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by ricardo81 1y ago
That's great, always amazing to see nature being able to manipulate its environment. I do hope they don't shit all over the nozzle though.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
A weird quirk in the game is that it's sometimes useful to cull your crew when they're unhappy- so you don't have to spend a few months idle after dividing the plunder.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
Yep, I believe the original didn't have the hand gestures.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
My memory may be wrong, but weren't the sequence of dance moves in the original manual? I think it was a form of anti-piracy- though playing it enough you could memorise the dance.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
Hard not to like it after the enchantment of playing Civ.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
>Personally I think the 1000Xers kinda ruined things for the rest of us. Reminds me of when NodeJS came out that bridged client and server side coding. And apparently their repos can be a bit of a security nightmare nowadays- so the mini
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by ricardo81 1y ago
Minimalism is excellent. As others have mentioned, using languages that are more memory safe (by assumption the language is wrote in such a way) may be worth the additional complexity cost. But surely with burgeoning AI use efficiency savin
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by ricardo81 1y ago
Some CDNs go to the length of fingerprinting the TLS and HTTP/2 handshakes to see if you're a bot. As others have mentioned, using an automated browser tends to be the broadest solution.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
As someone with a 'full stack' history (ie basic front end knowledge compared to a full-timer on that coal face every day), I do notice a lot of the stuff jQuery does is now native to the browser, like being able to use fetch with

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