$8 mil is pocket change for the investors. It’s like eight dudes all giving their bro $100 for his art project.

The HOMES mnemonic is now SHAME.

(I’m sure some lib on bluesky figured this out before me)

The Gates Foundation had strong objections to releasing the covid-19 patents. I’m sure they had some sort of rationale that wasn’t "this would set a bad precedent for M$ patents.

A scraper has many more ways around something like sheildfont than just OCR. The question will be if it was actually programmed to check for such measures.

Netnut is indeed an Israeli company. I dont think they’re getting arrested and prosecuted in US courts but their entire infrastructure has been shut down and they’ve been cut off from the US. So the business itself is killed.

Resell access to your home IP address to undisclosed third parties? If they do I’d imagine they’d bother to put it in the terms of service.

MPD and pick your client.

“The idea behind silicon sampling is simple and tantalizing,” they write. “Because large language models can generate responses that emulate human answers, polling companies see an opportunity to use AI agents to simulate survey responses at a small fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling.”

Somebody invested money into this company. And there’s at least hundreds, maybe thousands, of other businesses with these asinine ideas about how to use AI. They’re all getting capital from someone who’s supposed to be smart because they have capital. Remember that when llm providers cost correct token prices.

Jones was always just an independent grifter. Its not like he was in Trump’s inner circle. Also Jones lost the case over a year ago. I think the verdict came out under the Biden regime.

Not if you self-host.

Ignore the AI slop image from that article. If you follow the SCMP article Tom’s Hardware is citing. You’ll see a bunch of these

Looks pretty familiar IMO.

Then you need to figure out how to use voyager correctly and reply to the correct user because none of this is showing up in HazardousBanjo’s inbox. Its showing up in mine.

I never even mentioned the DNC or “vote blue” bullshit. You seem to be eager to argue with someone who has opinions different than mine.

Idk why you think I was arguing that.

Historically, a socialist holding an elected executive office of a capitalist government is a precarious position fraught with contradictions. You can only meaningfully govern by making massive concessions to the ruling class and betraying some supporters. Communists will stake out the “he will betray you” position.

FWIW the Mamdani administration is very aware of this contradiction and deliberately made promises that he can do by decree, such as the rent freeze. But there’s also been some rather heinous concessions, like keeping on a bunch of Zionists in the admin, and also keeping on the NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch.

That seems like a flight of stairs up.

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Anubis forces the site to reload when doing the normal PoW challenge! Meta Refresh is a sufficient mouse to block 99% of all bot traffic without being any more burdensome than PoW.

You’ve failed to demonstrate why meta-refresh is more burdensome than PoW and have pivoted to arguing the point I was making from the start as though it was your own. I’m not arguing with you any further. I’m satisfied that I’ve convinced any readers of our discussion.

You will have people complain about their anti-fingerprinting being blocked with every bot-managment solution. Your ability to navigate the internet anonymously is directly correlated with a bots ability to scrape. That has never been my complaint about Anubis.

My complaint is that the calculations Anubis forces you to do are absolutely negligible burden for a bot to solve. The hardest part is just having a JavaScript interpreter available. Making the author of the scraper write custom code to deal with your website is the most effective way to prevent bots.

Think about how much computing power AI data centers have. Do you think they give a shit about hashing some values for Anubis? No. They burn more compute power than a thousand Anubis challenges generating a single llm answer. PoW is a backwards solution.

Please Think. Captchas worked because they’re supposed to be hard for a computer to solve but are easy for a human. PoW is the opposite.

In the current shape Anubis has zero impact on usability for 99% of the site visitors, not so with meta refresh.

Again, I ask you: What extra burden does meta-refresh impose on users? How does setting a cookie and immediately refreshing the page burden the user more than making them wait longer while draining their battery before doing the exact same thing? Its strictly less intrusive.

And how do you actually check for working JS in a way that can’t be easily spoofed? Hint: PoW is a good way to do that.

Accessing the browsers API in any way is way harder to spoof than some hashing. I already suggested checking if the browser has graphics acceleration. That would filter out the vast majority of headless browsers too. PoW is just math and is easy to spoof without running any JavaScript. You can even do it faster than real JavaScript users something like Rust or C.

Meta refresh is a downgrade in usability for everyone but a tiny minority that has disabled JS.

What are you talking about? It just refreshes the page without doing any of the extra computation that PoW does. What extra burden does it put on users?