I’d go further and demand that the team I’m hired for re-write the app completely and not just re-engineer it from the AI slop codebase.

Curious if this going to affect google results in Searx. Not sure how it works (scraping page, API, etc)

Not that, specifically, though it might be indirectly?

I’m basing it off of one of Gyles Brandreth’s yarns where he described how he dealt with abusive constituents when he was a MP.

Dear sir or madam:

Some crackpot has written me an abusive letter, and they’ve signed your name at the bottom. […]

Whether he came up with that or adapted it from something prior, I don’t know.

Standard reply:

Dear sir or madam:

Some crackpot has written me an abusive message, and it seems they used your account to send it. I’m replying to you as a courtesy in case you wish to take action against this lunatic.

RCS is a whole can of worms. It’s presented like a carrier services (and carriers are in the mix, though often just for authentication), but it’s really a Google service. With Android, RCS connects directly to google’s mothership.

I believe on iOS those go to Apple’s servers which “peers” with google. Maybe search the RCS endpoint for Apple and see what comes up?

This is actually one of my New Year’s resolutions lol. Right now, my backups are local and my offsites are a hodgepodge of cloud services (basically holding encrypted container blobs of my stuff). Not ideal.

I’m looking at signing up for rsync.net since a lot of my backups are done via rsync anyway. Plan is to keep my local backups as-is and rsync them to rsync.net.

AI bots absolutely rip through your sites like something rabid.

SemrushBot being the most rabid from my experience. Just will not take “fuck off” as an answer.

That looks pretty much like how I’m doing it, also as an include for each virtual host. The only difference is I don’t even bother with a 403. I just use Nginx’s 444 “response” to immediately close the connection.

Are you doing the IP blocks also in Nginx or lower at the firewall level? Currently I’m doing it at firewall level since many of those will also attempt SSH brute forces (good luck since I only use keys, but still…)

Maybe will be better received at !tech_memes@lemmy.world ?

Sorry, I’m not a regular poster so I don’t know how to make a FOSS version of a YouTube link.

IMO, just drop the canonical YT link and let people handle it themselves (some Lemmy frontends will rewrite them to Piped/Invidious based on preference, some use browser plugins to redirect them, there’s an annoying bot that auto replies with Piped links, etc).

I’ve always found it annoying to have to deal with links to some random Piped/Invidious instances that are overloaded, slow, unreliable, and/or halfway around the world from where I am. A direct YT link is much easier to automatically re-write to use my local/preferred Invidious instance than having to know about every possible Invidious/Piped instance in the wild in order to detect them.

More like those Ionic Breeze air purifiers.

I’ve never been more satisfied hosting my own email than after reading this.

Look, I’m not saying it was Skynet, but I’m also not saying it wasn’t.

Oh, nice. I knew Alien: Romulus was getting one, but it seemed like an outlier/gimmick than anything else.

Possibly, haven’t considered that. My main concern is that media releases will no longer target physical media, leaving streaming / perpetual renting as the only option. VCRs were still manufactured after the major brands stopped production, but VHS releases largely went away.

The Alien: Romulus VHS Release notwithstanding lol.

Oh, and paying through the nose for someone’s cloud service so they can hold our data to ransom while mining it for AI.

That’s what “they” want. lol. Everything seems to be pushing that way for sure.

Though I am a little less pessimistic about spinners fully going away until all-flash datacenters are the norm. I’ve also had some running for close to 10 years, and they’re going strong (I’ve also got much newer ones as well)

I forget the article I posted here months ago, but there’s a new optical format which is in the multi-TB range. Not sure if/when it’ll be commercially available, but maybe that will come about?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/optical_disc_breakthrough/

Welp, we’re one step closer to the “you will own nothing and be happy” future tech companies want for us.

Oh no! Anyway…

My bad, I phrased that poorly. I meant it like when new battery technology is announced, it seems like nothing ever comes of it.

I don’t know how I missed the mention of 10 years, but thanks. At least they have some kind of ballpark estimate. As with most new battery tech announcements, I’m not going to hold my breath, lol.

Yeah, it seems like it’s got quite a bit of potential (even though I only understand the broadest strokes of it). Unfortunately, it’ll probably be a while before we see actual/practical applications since we’re only at the “proving it exists” phase.