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
froztbyte
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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)
I hadn’t encountered either the Howard person nor heard of this podcast, but imma find that episode and listen because it sounds like quite an experience!
the Russian Exit, a classic
as a lot can be learned from trying to fix weird bugs
a truism, but not one I believe many of our esteemed promptfuckers could appreciate
for anyone that finds this thread in the future: "check if vga@sopuli.xiz contributed to this codebase" is an easy hack for this test
since you’re married to not fucking getting it
.....tempting me to come up with a new word
thank you for your belief in me, that's so cool! you barely even know me! so cool to have people support people!
I'd still prefer concrete and precise technical detail though
many of the proponents of things in this field will propose/argue $x thing to be massively valuable for $x
thing is, that doesn't often work out
yes, there's some value in the tech for translation outcomes. to anyone even mildly online, "so are language teaching apps/sites using this?" is probably a very nearby question. and rightly so!
and then when you go digging into how that's going in practice, wow fuck damn doesn't that Glorious AI Future sheen just fall right off...
weren't you also here having shitty opinions like a week ago?
e: yes