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BlueTemplar commented on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me   boston.conman.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/classichasclass
NegativeK · 2 days ago
I've heard this point raised elsewhere, and I think it's underplaying the magnitude of the issue.

Background scanner noise on the internet is incredibly common, but the AI scraping is not at the same level. Wikipedia has published that their infrastructure costs have notably shot up since LLMs started scraping them. I've seen similar idiotic behavior on a small wiki I run; a single AI company took the data usage from "who gives a crap" to "this is approaching the point where I'm not willing to pay to keep this site up." Businesses can "just" pass the costs onto the customers (which is pretty shit at the end of the day,) but a lot of privately run and open source sites are now having to deal with side crap that isn't relevant to their focus.

The botnets and DDOS groups that are doing mass scanning and testing are targeted by law enforcement and eventually (hopefully) taken down, because what they're doing is acknowledged as bad.

AI companies, however, are trying to make a profit off of this bad behavior and we're expected to be okay with it? At some point impacting my services with your business behavior goes from "it's just the internet being the internet" to willfully malicious.

BlueTemplar · 2 hours ago
From your example (and many others), AI companies are engaging in DDoS too, so why wouldn't law enforcement target them too ?
BlueTemplar commented on US Intel   stratechery.com/2025/u-s-... · Posted by u/maguay
201984 · a day ago
The point of the article was that there's never going to be a new domestic competitor. It would take hundreds of billions in investment to get off the ground and build a fab from scratch, and they'd be in an even worse position than Intel is currently. No external customer would want to risk using them, and they don't have the internal demand of x86 to keep going on their own.
BlueTemplar · a day ago
"Never" is a very strong statement... or do you expect the USA or the need for chips to stop existing in a time frame as short as half a century ?
BlueTemplar commented on US Intel   stratechery.com/2025/u-s-... · Posted by u/maguay
slipperydippery · a day ago
I had a Duron chip that, for like two full years in the early '00s, would've required an Intel chip about double the price to beat it. That was wild. I assume the Celeron line in particular only hung on through that period via contract-inertia and brand recognition, because it was a total joke next to Duron, on a bang-for-your-buck basis.

Like I did (at the time) high-end gaming on it, back when gaming used to sometimes tax your CPU and not only your GPU, and in that entire time I didn't ever feel like I would have benefitted at all from an upgrade, it was so far ahead of the curve. And that was AMD's budget chip line! They simply didn't deliberately cripple it nearly as much as Intel did their Celerons.

BlueTemplar · a day ago
We've been back to gaming (even of the first/third person kind !) taxing CPUs too for several years now.

(Though I blame developers being lazy with optimisation as well as games also being released on console for this.)

BlueTemplar commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android   9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat
rv3392 · 2 days ago
I get where you're coming from, but I think you need to understand that the vast majority of people (conservatively maybe >95%) are perfectly fine with using Amazon. If you just start metaphorically punching all of them you won't convince them of anything. I don't think you can really make something socially poisonous that way without a significant group of people, in socially powerful positions, already agreeing with you.

I think you're overestimating how many people think like you on both of these topics (iOS/Android and Amazon).

BlueTemplar · a day ago
Not long ago the vast majority of people were also perfectly fine with smoking (and even second hand smoking) and using asbestos.

But sure, what other kind of approach do you suggest that would work better to, say, kick them out of the EU ?

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BlueTemplar commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android   9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat
Gud · 2 days ago
Who is doing a better job?

Because I see A LOT of “open source” advocates these days, and more and more “source available”.

But the old school Free Software hippies(that started with BSD, NOT GNU, IMNHO) are slowly dying out and being replaced with?

BlueTemplar · 2 days ago
I can understand why some devs would have tried to ignore the writing on the wall for Android over the last few years (hopefully not from now on), but it's especially galling when you see some of them still using the likes of Github and Discord...
BlueTemplar commented on How Not to Buy a SSD   andrei.xyz/post/how-not-t... · Posted by u/speckx
BlueTemplar · 5 days ago
I can't believe mixing a store and a marketplace on the same website still isn't illegal. Pick a lane !
BlueTemplar commented on "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit   pluralistic.net/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/Refreeze5224
dvdkon · 8 days ago
I agree about smartphones, but ID cards actually are effectively mandatory in Germany (per Wikipedia, you don't need one if your primary address on record is in another country, or if you have a passport). The situation in the neighbouring Czech Republic is the same, and I think many other European countries have similar laws.
BlueTemplar · 7 days ago
That is surprising to me, since the reason why they aren't (legally, effectively would be another discussion) mandatory in France is because it was the Nazis that first introduced them...
BlueTemplar commented on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo   code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/whataguy
ipaddr · 11 days ago
Don't use the most used platform for blogging reach in 2025 because .0000001% of users are people you hate?

Sounds silly. Don't use wordpress because a store I don't like uses it? I hate to tell you this but friend and foe are using Google search.. time to move on.

BlueTemplar · 10 days ago
WordPress isn't a platform.

Also, downvoted for being a platform shill.

BlueTemplar commented on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo   code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/whataguy
pmontra · 11 days ago
FFmpeg seems to have dealt with that problem when they still were on github. This is the paragraph at the end of the readme:

> Contributing

> Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.

An agentic LLM bot is likely to have no problems at creating a patch and mailing it but it's a major pain for most human developers. Furthermore they can ban source email addresses and vet potential contributors before letting them in the mailing list.

BlueTemplar · 11 days ago
Why is it a major pain? Isn't it part of git workflow?

Or is this because most developers got complacent in only using GitHub and similar?

u/BlueTemplar

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