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  Bad news: there's a cohort of idiots out there building aggressive web scrapers with AI. Good news: AI is crap at building web scrapers, and the cohort of idiots doesn't know enough to fix the issues, so they're relatively easy to block via a firewall. This message brought to you by "Yes, I scan my application firewall logs, why do you ask?"

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  Trump in a week or two: I just need... two million, three hundred and seventy-five thousand, four hundred and sixty-eight votes...

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  @dkwritesabit@mastodon.social Sounds interesting, but also appears to have DRM enabled, which means I can't read it on my preferred device without surveillance from Amazon. Do let me know if that ever changes.

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  RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/117006488074722424 Ah come on, $3T in debt and no profit, how is that a problem? 😂

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  @jodmentum@apobangpo.space I once saw an obit that contained the sentence "She led a useful life." This applies to your MIL.

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  My Editorial Assistant is NOT HELPING! #writing #editing #WritingCommunity #CatsOfMastodon

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  When the marketing says "SAVE [tiny print] UP TO [/tiny print] $4,000!" I just assume that whatever it is, I can't afford it and move on. Doubly so if I wouldn't even pay $4,000 for whatever it is they're pushing.

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  An update to my spam filters to kill the latest wave of particularly irritating spam killed 55 messages over the past week, with three false positives. All of the false positives were from the SpamAssassin mailing list that was discussing how to kill this particular form of spam, which I found amusing. I've adjusted the rule to compensate for that particular quirk.

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  Man, you do not want to be 45 minutes late for a CSFFA AGM. [Zooms into an empty room] 😂

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  "This is a follow-up message regarding the abuse report that you submitted to AWS. The content or activity you reported has been mitigated." Or in other words, if you use AWS to launch an attack against my sites, I will get your ass banned off of AWS. Next player, please.

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  In other words, in the online space, fuck with my stuff and I will do my best to hunt you down and kill you, digitally speaking.

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  Meta-Quote of the Day: "it looks like a vibecoding bot broke {app} while hallucinating a bugfix."

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  I just had an installer say "in order to install {app}, you must install {app}" Gosh, this must have been why I started the installer for {app}! Duh.

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  @hetzner@mastodon.hetzner.social Imagine a fascist state having effective control over the DNS system. Long strings of numbers FTW. 😄

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  @georgetakei@universeodon.com I dunno. How about starting with where you found it? Then maybe hire an intern who knows what image descriptions are. After all you're supposed to be aligned with marginalized communities, right?

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  @Dany@hsnl.social Sloppy should be dark brown so that it more closely resembles the wet crap that comes out of their Gen-AI.

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  @Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange Two words: AI narration.

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  @ferrix@mastodon.online The airtight cap really helps. I've managed to use a full tube up over the span of two years. First time ever! Buying the caps paid back first time.

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  @MLE_online@social.afront.org There's a specific brand of caulking cap with a long pin in the centre. This ensures there's a pathway to uncured caulking. I've saved several tubes from the trash this way.

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  @catsalad Come on now, that's deep thought there: "Is that a spider? A Fly? Or just a speck of dirt? Better keep an eye on it."

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  @ZebKing I think my count is three, of those, one actually uses the platform, the others seem to be getting rage farming dopamine hits on Shitter still. I still have accounts on several platforms that are not Shitter, but wherever possible I mention that I use those platforms for broadcast; if you want to interact, this is the best place for it. if someone is cross-posting to multiple platforms including the fediverse, I share the fedi link outside this ecosystem, in hopes of suckering a few m...

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  @RnDanger @AnnieBuddy @artemis No disagreement there, but this particular form of rot is much older and just as insidious. The start of the decay predates the modern internet.

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  @briankrebs Yeah. I looked at that precisely once when it came out. No friggin way. Now with AI it's like "verify we can use you as a deep fake." No. Nope. No no no no no.

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  @veronica I refuse to parse the words "will never be finished".

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  @veronica "I'm not insane, I'm an author."

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  I just shake my head when the US media describes Yet another mass shooting, especially one of the "dude can't handle rejection, kills family then himself" variant as "shocking" How can something that happens [looks it up] about ONCE A DAY be shocking? Horrific I get, yes. But shocking? Give me a break. I'll tell you what's fucking shocking: that there's no way for anyone to do anything about it because of shitty politics. That...

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  RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/116431441690899655 For anyone looking for a practical definition of community and why it's the most valuable thing ever, this thread is it.

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  @veronica Many moons ago I did some work in language parsing (I even got a cherished KλC pin for my efforts.) Since then I've done a little neural net stuff and had some great fun with genetic search. People have no clue how much the overall class of algorithm does useful things. Meanwhile in this era of derangement, this sums it up for me https://mindly.social/@alan/115744525132359824

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  @Alison In their defence, they either need a customs declaration form or to get a GST registration and remit. Both require a certain amount of additional work, so it's an understandable complaint. OTOH, most of the cost in keeping the network alive and running is in keeping servers lit up. If I was on mastodon.social, I'd be sending them some money, but really I want mindly.social to keep their lights on, so I send it to them instead. @Gargron @papuass @Ameboid

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  @Gargron I think that she means that you are not in fact out of stock. A factual message would be "sorry we won't ship to Canada at this time." @Alison @papuass @Ameboid