Yeah, people definitely have a tendency to act entitled just because they've paid money.
It reminds me of this story from Freakonomics:
The economists decided to test their solution by conducting a study of ten day-care centers in Haifa, Israel. The study lasted twenty weeks, but the fine was not introduced immediately. For the first four weeks, the economists simply kept track of the number of parents who came late; there were, on average, eight late pickups per week per day-care center. In the fifth week, the fine was enacted. It was announced that any parent arriving more than ten minutes late would pay $3 per child for each incident. The fee would be added to the parents' monthly bill, which was roughly $380.
After the fine was enacted, the number of late pickups promptly went... up. Before long there were twenty late pickups per week, more than double the original average. The incentive had plainly backfired.
Dunno if it's my favourite, but every time I have a banana sandwich I always think why don't I eat these more often. It's especially good with a very malty bread and salted butter.
Pretty shitty attempt on Hashicorp's part. Come to think of it, are Hashicorp themselves in the legal clear for grabbing code from an incompatible licence?
I like it too, even though it didn't notify me when the trial was up like it said it would. I was planning on buying the lifetime (or uninstalling) but it autobilled me for a year instead.
Distro watch rankings are just which page gets the most hits. Get a bunch of different IPs to load LemmyLinux and it'll be number one (and then actual people will click on it to see what it is and why it's number one).
It feels off that the headline talks about body cam footage but the AI actually just uses the audio. Technically that may be considered footage but I think I'm with most in considering that to mean the audio and video together.
Anecdotally, I've found that AI systems set up to summarise are reliable, probably using that "turn off creativity" setup that's mentioned.
This seems like a pretty standard solution for this kind of thing and I don't believe it would have been patentable - there's no breakthroughs here, even for 2007.
Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.
This is a brilliant analogy, and I love how wellot works.
(This is a quite long article though, so I'll finish it tomorrow.)
Thinking there must be another way, I switched to Haproxy.
Hang on, weren't you on Haproxy already? Or do you mean you switched your attention to Haproxy? (If not, what were you in before?)
As others have said, blocking incoming stuff as high up as possible is definitely the right way, and Cloudflare is the right place for you. It's interesting that this bot wasn't caught by Cloudflare, I wonder who runs it.
I was kinda hoping for another story about some clever compression bomb or similar to slow up the bot - after all, if it's hammering this little site it's surely doing the same to others, even if they haven't noticed yet. After the robots.txt was ignored I was sure, but I guess this mature, restrained response is probably the correct one discontentedly kicks can down sepia street
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