Where I’m eyeing resource usage is in the cloud right now. I run a few discourse instances which seem really inefficient to me - 1.5G ram for just a discussion board. I have to dedicate a server for each one, whereas my rust web servers can have more like 30meg usage. Probably doing a lot less stuff, but still.

Just ordered some digital photo frames for xmas gifts, and neither one of them work. One is apparently an opened box return. Trashy!

LF?

Bring a crowbar. Free the TP!

so how would cloudflare tell the difference between the good ‘stripped down’ queries and the bad? still not hearing how that is supposed to work. if there’s no way to tell the difference, the baby will be thrown out with the bathwater, and I can’t blame them.

I don’t see how categorically blocking non-human traffic is irrational given the current environment of AI scanning. And what’s rational about demanding cloudflare distinguish between the ‘good guy’ AI and ‘bad guy’ AI without proposing any methodology for doing so.

LOL “human sourced traffic” oh the tragedy. I for one am rooting for perplexity to go out of business forever.

Yes your “leave the internet any time you want” strawman is not a good argument.

If allowing perplexity while blocking the bad guys is so easy why not find a service that does that for you?

So you’re a cloudflare customer and you wish they would let the perplexity traffic multiplier through to your website? You can leave cloudflare any time you want.

So sad for them. Try not living in a war zone?

If a neighborhood is beset by roving bands of thieves, sooner or later strangers will be greeted by a shotgun rather than an invitation to tea, regardless of their intentions. Them’s the breaks. Bots are going to take a hit now and their operators are just going to have to deal with it. Sucks when people don’t play nice, but this is what you get.

Ha, anyone DOSing them with constant compute requests? I read an article where a 200$ a month user was using tens of thousands of dollars of compute.

When you finally see the big picture, you have to die because you know too much.

Did zucko not pay his protection money?

Elon quitting as CEO is not enough. He has to divest from tesla as well. His obscene wealth is the problem, and as long as his wealth is in the company I’m going to be pulling for it to tank to zero.

They’ll turn off benefits to people with opinions

I don’t even worry about C++ libs like Boost since I’m on rust now

Fuck amazon and fuck whole foods, their subsidiary.

So convenient for my boycott list

are we looking at a work slowdown from the digital serfs of x?