froztbyte

joined 2 years ago
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

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

e: yes

[–] 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

[–] 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)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

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!

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

the Russian Exit, a classic

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

and here I was graciously giving the promptfuckers a choice

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