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I have no love for apple and their crap. I'm just tired of the endless stream of this bullshit fake outrage by the worst perpetrators.

Fakespot is literal cancer that steals passwords, location data, purchase history etc etc.

Should never been in the app store to begin with!

I call bullshit. I suspect selection bias

It took me 5 minutes to figure out what eproctoring is

Lets hope so... I expect that these were accidentally committed to a public repo

However, while the keys are then already leaked, you'd have to go search for them. Copilot suggests you use them in you editor. That is not quite the same imo.

It goes from deliberately searching and using leaked keys to having them handed to you without context. I feel it is a bit like finding an unlocked bike, if you take it, it is still stealing. But here there is a guy at the bike parking lets say that is handing out bikes to anyone passing by. Not the best analogy, but i think it covers my point ;)

If you wait for that, all diabetics will be dead probably…

As someone who has to deal with a lot of bots, bot networks and other weird scraper apps people use: The biggest issue is that most of these tools are not behaved very well. This tool is clearly designed to circumvent protections, rate limits mostly, against scraping that might be essential to keep things running.

They follow links that are explicitly marked as do not follow, they do not even try to limit their rate, they spoof their user agent strings etc etc. These bots cause real problems and cost real money. I do not think that kind of misuse is ethical. In fact, using this tool to circumvent protections can turn your scraping into a DDOS attack, which I do not feel are ethical.

If your bot behaves itself though, public information is public imo. Just don't take down websites, respect rate limits and do not follow 'no-follow' links.

To give an idea of the size of the issue, we have websites for customers that have maybe 5 hits per minute from actual users. Then _suddenly_ you go to 500 hits/minute for a couple of hours, because some bot is trying to scrape a calendar and is now looking for events in 1850 or whatever. (Not the greatest software that these links are still there tbh, but that is out of my control.)

Or another situation, not entirely related, but interesting i think: A few years back for days on end 80% of our total traffic came from random IPs across china & request could be traced through HTTP referrers where the 'user' had apparently opened a page in one province, then traveled to the other side of China and clicked a link 2 hours later.

All these things are relatively easy to mitigate, but that doesn't make it ethical.

If your scraper behaves, perhaps it would not be blocked…

About as useful a take as ‘dont click on phishing links’

This, I am not at all reassured by this that it won't happen again. Next week perhaps.

Also, their DNS broke last month as well, but I guess we won't mention that as it would invalidate 2 years of stellar reliability

It was not that quick tbh. We were seeing intermittent issues for several hours after the initial problem arose.

It tought me a valuable lesson: make sure it is easy to switch to another CDN & to update cached/stored urls

Always ironic how many trackers are blocked when reading such articles

This. Unit Test should not connect to external service imo.

And I do not get the gripe with a production rate limit tbh.

I have the same experience. I bought a System76 darter pro, it comes with a linux pre-installed. I've been using it on and of for a year now but cannot 'give up' my mac: - It is not stable at all; weekly complete freezes - The key-bindings are a joke. Even after remapping and hacking stuff - bluetooth support sucks, sometimes it works for days, then it will not reconnect and keep spewing errors. - Sound drivers seems buggy, it takes 20-30s to 'switch' to a BT speaker. - I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install Ruby 'correctly' via apt.

I believe we are reaching a singularity.

Like 90% of content is written by marketeers for bots. SEO they call it. Now we can take out the middle man. Bots writing crap for other bots. And then we use that content to train more bots to write even crappier blog spam. And finally the bots decide the actual recipe is no longer needed on the recipe blogs and they kick us of the internet.

While there are some nice open solutions out there, pine64 etc, one thing I'd like to see in more open projects is high quality.

I have a Pinebook Pro & an System76 Darter laptop. I use neither because the build quality is weak. Things like a proper trackpad, decent resolutions etc. Basically, I want a Macbook Air, but open-ish. And I'd gladly pay the 'premium' for it. Hell, that Darter was more expensive than a pretty decked out MBA & it is a heap of cheap plastics.

If the hardware was there, I wouldn't mind having to out some more effort in to getting a proper Linux distro running properly/

neat! I tried a nice android phone last year and it was such a shit experience that I returned it within 24h. This was 100% because google.

Also, this can go suck it with his ' a phone that caters to those concerned about their privacy makes very little sense.' bs. That is exactly the shit attitude take lets these cunts win.

That I can recommend. It is extremely easy to loose money with it and end up with _nothing_.

Especially the heavily leverage products can go from +100% to -100% in hours. And then your money is just gone. And you have nothing.

No Support hosting? So AWS basically? /s

(For context, unless you pay 20% extra for AWS support, you basically get no support. There is a public forum for those that like to scream into the void.)

My god there are may bad takes going around this weekend

Corporate bois protecting each other.. What a surprise

Planning an attack on the capitol for months? Protect free speech!

Taking it to the wallstreet chads? CENSOR THE FUCK OUT OF IT!

Fuck facebook. End it.

Since AWS implies that Elastic is involved in the offering, I'd sue AWS for defamation. Having your name associated with a AWS service, and such a shitty service at that, cannot be good for your business.

Maybe. It is definitely looks a lot like a ponzi scheme too me. And it is nearly useless and immorally wasteful.

> It's work to run/manage a server: find a hosting provider

I'm thinking it might be time to accept that 'we', hackers/nerds/technically inclined individuals/early adopters, start 'selling' and providing these services for our families and friends.

Assuming you are involved with communick: I like the idea of, but I am not sold on moving my communications etc to some random llc. Especially with as little information as there is on the website, I'm having trouble trusting that. I would not send my friend and family there tbh.

I feel ya, deleting whatsapp will not be great for my social life. Neither was deleting facebook, at least at the time when it was still being used. Whatsapp has inserted itself into the social fabric as a benevolent offering and now that we are all locked in we get what we payed for.

But that is all the more reason to get rid of it. Of course this makes life complicated. But if we don't make these hard choices and 'sacrifices', it will never stop. They will keep eroding away at our privacy and freedom. It will only become harder the longer we wait.

This kind of things will keep happening though as long as we allow monopolies and closed platforms. We should really be more careful with accepting these companies into our lives.

Well, that’s gonna cause some massive inflation ;)

Yeah, even human written content is often mostly written for bots and AI atm. Endless pages of drivel to please the SEO ‘experts’ :(

There are different fully concurrent ruby implementations: truffleruby, rubinius, jruby.. they all suck at what ruby is most used for, running rails. Last time i tried cruby was 10x faster still.

So in practice we glady throw more memory and processes at the problem.

Maybe fairphone?