froztbyte

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eating our own dogshit in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago

you could be right

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

is that Rao as in venkatesh?

(oh, you linked ribbonfarm, so I guess the answer is yes)

eating our own dogshit in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

....the fuck is this post

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

nasb, hedgehog review on promptfans and learning

GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop in c/techtakes@awful.systems
GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

whoosh

GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop in c/techtakes@awful.systems
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

god forbid any such posters think we want them pissing in our lounge

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

I wonder how many of these people will do a Very Sudden opinion reversal once these headwinds wind disappear

If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

weren't you also here having shitty opinions like a week ago?

e: yes

Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the term of art is "residential proxy" and there's a ton of them

for example: it's the flipside of Bright's free VPN service - through Bright Data they sell people access proxied via some user's connection

Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

yes, you can match on user agent, and then conditionally serve them other stuff (most webservers are fine with this). nepenthes and iocaine are the current preferred/recommended servers to serve them bot mazes

the thing is that the crawlers will also lie (openai definitely doesn't publish all its own source IPs, I've verified this myself), and will attempt a number of workarounds (like using residential proxies too)

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the measure of a man ^W AI ^W something (www.wsj.com)
 

archive.org | and .is

this is almost a NSFW? some choice snippets:

more than 1.5 million people have used it and it is helping build nearly half of Copilot users’ code

Individuals pay $10 a month for the AI assistant. In the first few months of this year, the company was losing on average more than $20 a month per user, according to a person familiar with the figures, who said some users were costing the company as much as $80 a month.

good thing it's so good that everyone will use it amirite

starting around $13 for the basic Microsoft 365 office-software suite for business customers—the company will charge an additional $30 a month for the AI-infused version.

Google, ..., will also be charging $30 a month on top of the regular subscription fee, which starts at $6 a month

I wonder how long they'll try that, until they try forcing it on everyone (and raise all prices by some n%)

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demoscene: area 5150 (www.pouet.net)
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my comment over there just made me recall this

this demo is the next one in a long arc of people doing absolutely remarkable things to the original PC. that series went 8088 corruption (pouet) -> 8088 domination -> 8088 mph and if you've never seen them before, you absolutely should

area 5150 has a recording of the production as well as an audience reaction recording from share day

it's astoundingly awesome

something I really enjoy about the scene is that the more you learn (about the technology, the math, the methodology), the deeper the appreciation of it gets

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restic (restic.net)
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I've been using it for a good while now, but figured it's worth a shoutout incase others don't know it. one of the few pieces of Go-ware I don't substantially hate.

I've previously slapped together a tiny set of shellscripts for my use of it which you're welcome to steal from. also recently seen backupninja as something that can use this, but haven't tried that

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