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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Off Topic: Politcs

spoiler

Best of luck to our folks in the UK, enjoy the Tory tears!

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

never really seen ludicity blog before, now that i read up ten posts on so in a single sitting i lowkey want to fuck off to live in a cabin in the woods

the sheer wastefulness of it all, bubbleness of its economics, piling technical debt, institutional stupidity, and the man also feels off in a way that i can't put my finger on (maybe just by association)

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (9 children)

me talking to someone after describing a dumb and horrible LW thing:

i feel like i'm describing a livejournal fanfic cult, which i guess i am

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (5 children)

we finally posted Diz's LLM logic puzzle post to Pivot to AI! Let's see if this draws flocks of excited new users to awful.systems ... we're doing Ray Kurzweil tomorrow, lol.

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the only other thing on there is also confusing as fuck:

”Mirrors” is one of our services that developers and non-developers could use on their websites or in their favorite web browsers. It can reduce server load by acting as an extra caching layer for every direct link available on your website.

All data will be cached for 86400 seconds or 1.00 day(s), and distributed globally, effectively increasing performance and reliability, which will lead to an improved user experience.

so, ah, essentially a demo web app supposedly running at CDN scale, and supposedly powered by AI (to do what? this is not answered, of course). this is almost definitely just some basic cloud shit someone spun up, but like, why? there’s money in it if all this shit is logging DNS queries and web site accesses to sell to advertisers or for other much more nefarious purposes (or they’re doing injection on high value targets), but surely people who change their DNS settings and developers aren’t stupid enough to fall for this just cause it says it’s AI… right?

Q: Is this really free?

A: If it's not, you should already see a Pricing page.

this really is the slimiest way to avoid saying “it’s free until we say it isn’t”

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (8 children)

wonder if it's white-label Cloudflare

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