Klonoar

Behavioral tagging of bot traffic is actually easier when you're not serving plain HTML pages, because the number of signals thrown off by bad bots that don't exactly replicate browsing habits goes through the roof. The larger anti-bot implementations do a lot of this type of thing nowadays.

Bot authors no doubt have their own incentives for using old.reddit (lower bandwidth, conceptually simpler to crawl, etc) but it would not surprise me to learn that Reddit wants exactly one door for bots to have to shuffle through. They also don't work on old.reddit much at all these days, so any effort they have to put in to handling bot traffic is kept to one route.

Pretty dumb era of the internet we've wound up in.

You could certainly argue that it's less true now that there's legitimate people commenting, but there are years old threads on there with very helpful and valuable information that you can only really find via some incantations of Google search.

2025: https://redis.io/blog/security-advisory-cve-2025-49844/ 2023: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q2/133 2022: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-1690/ 2014: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.4/common/008_o...

It's an issue as old as time, or thereabouts.

Welcome to forums, we've been using them for a few decades now.

You kind of had to be there for part of it, at least the early stuff though.

This is a wide ranging discussion board, not the OpenBSD forums. That shit is fair game even if you don’t like it.

(It’s annoying, sure - because dev tribalism is the most played out thing in this industry - but overall the topic can be an interesting discussion point)

I'll take claims that you have no ability to make for $100, Alex.

They rewrote the entire thing with extensive LLM use.

It is abundantly clear that their idea of maintainable and yours probably don't match up.

It's apparently out there, shipped in the real world, with people saying it's good. I think it's a pretty clear win for them.

Look, I'm as anti-AI as the next guy but their homepage is good. They didn't compromise on quality.

Call a spade a spade.

Stop getting history twisted.

Just take the L, dude.

Trying to act like Rockstar missed here is like sticking your head in the sand. It doesn't matter that you didn't like it, they accomplished every goal the game had.

Rockstar hasn’t missed, you’re an outlier.

We do a lot of things wrong but AC isn’t one of them.

(Unless you’re in the PNW where they never needed it before recently, and somehow continue to build units without it)

Knock it off already.

This is a techie complaint, and that's opting for a charitably nice description.