The article focuses on techniques that help bots spoof browsers, to make them impersonate a typical human visitor.
It’s not obvious how this helps people protect themselves against surveillance while being online. Using python scripting is not a practical way to browse. But it’s handy to write scrappers.
It’s certainly useful to misbehaving bots that try to evade anti-bots protection.
That’s true. The reason is there’s lots of bot traffic spoofing real users, sometimes even going through residential proxies.
When bots spoof users well, the last option for projects is use these PoW captcha that annoy everyone. Enshitification continues.
By spoofing the fingerprint, developers can make their automated tools impersonate real users more convincingly, thereby bypassing bot detections.
Many OSS projects and personal web servers have bot detection because they would otherwise drown under (AI) scrappers and other bots traffic. Hosting or bandwidth cost is often unsustainable without bot protection.
If you don’t want to kill these projects, honor robots.txt by default, use throttling, don’t try to circumvent bot blocks. Look if there’s a purpose built API available to bots. If they don’t want to offert such API, go find something else to do.
Using an ultrasonic dog trainer in public may piss off dogs, and other domesticated or wild animals in the vicinity. I woudln’t recommend this, except maybe as a last resort on rare occasions.
Politely asking the person to use a headphone or earpiece may be more effective in many case.
The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it. And we will be subject to their rule of law.…
Quick, undermine democratic values and rule of law before someone else does!
Vendor support. Some hardware and software vendors still only care about Windows.
For those like me who are late to the party, and are reading about the movie and its sequel a while after their release:
I seached the answer online to better understand the meme, and that’s one of the first results.
Sorry if that’s AI generated. I didn’t search for AI generated answer, and didn’t ask ChatGPT, this is sadly what seach results looks like nowadays.
Will gladly edit the top comment if you can suggest a better article.
(Edited to link to a better article)
What if the Earth were made entirely of protons, and the Moon were made entirely of electrons?
The platform that works closest to this is https://www.liberapay.com/
It used to allow making 1 monthly payment and spreading it between projects. But they had to change to comply with banking/payment platform rules so each money transfer is directed to one beneficiary from the get go. Meaning you setup a recurring payment per project.
There’s also the nlnet foundation https://nlnet.nl/
It’s possible to give them 1 recurring payment to support OSS projects. But they manage how the money is split between projects and their own overhead. You don’t pick the projects.
XMPP, Conversations is a Nice Android client.
We don’t need another centralized messaging service in the EU. We need a secure and decentralized one. Such protocol already exist such as XMPP, Matrix, Briar, Ricocher, RCS, …
Yes, this is fucked.
I doubt a sane society would aim to replace as many jobs as possible with automation, or necessarily be happy with it. Making this a goal mean trying to remove humans and unions out of the equations.
A sane society may seek to decrease workplace injuries and be more efficient, ie wasting less resources while producing stuff. That could involve better workplace conditions, better product design, and maybe automation. Automation may incidentally replace some tasks, even though it’s not the end goal.
It’s outdated information rather than false information. It was true at the time the article was written.
It deserve to be updated with a notice, maybe not taken down.
Literally who is their target market at this point.
Confused people
Ask an AI ton list static analysis tools, chose one of those, and never use AI again.
We plan to be a wildly successful company, but if we get it wrong, that’s on us.
That’s incorrect. If OpenAI get this wrong, they won’t (be able to) make investor whole. People would loose part of their savings if they’re exposed to OpenAI through direct or indirect investments.
Even if they get it right, everyone suffers from the pollution caused by AI datacenters, and from the opportunity cost since investors are pouring resources in this hyped technology rather than more reponsible things like renewables, energy efficiency, …
Trump is a pretty good return on investment for Putin
Cory Doctorow is an international treasure
Source?