Replace “Medium” with internet. Otherwise this is just a paid promo piece for Medium
Readit Newsaltdataseller commented on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium wired.com/story/ai-genera... · Posted by u/minimaxir
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altdataseller commented on Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots · Posted by u/damir
> gzip bomb (100kB size, unpacked around 20GB)
Not possible (unless you're talking double gzip). gzip's max compression ratio is 1032:1[1]. So 100kB can expand to at most ~103MB with single gzip.
Brotli allows much larger compression. Here's[2] a brotli bomb I created that's 81MB compressed and 100TB uncompressed. That's a 1.2M:1 compression ratio.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/16794960
[2] https://github.com/google/google-ctf/blob/main/2019/finals/m...
Its a pain in da arse to support brotli decoding in Ruby (not sure about other languages) so when I send http requests, i just omit it in the request headers
altdataseller commented on Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life cnet.com/tech/mobile/with... · Posted by u/retskrad
"Everyday AI" hasn't even been built yet tbh. Where is my assistant that notices my flight has been delayed and reschedules my appointments and lets my contacts know?
1. How does it know how/when to reschedule that doctor's appointment that you need to call to reschedule? How do you know that receptionist won't hang up on your "AI agent" who tries to call them, b/c they think it's some sort of scam bot?
2. How does it know which contacts to contact? Does that acquaintance you talked to for some professional reason need to know your flight got rescheduled? What about that travel agency you talked to last night to confirm the flight?
altdataseller commented on Ask HN: Why aren't we fighting email spam more effectively? · Posted by u/outcoldman
Mark them as spam and it will affect their deliverability rates
I highly doubt any agency will enforce violations since there would be thousands of companies in violation
altdataseller commented on Perplexity AI's new tool for researching the stock market zdnet.com/article/perplex... · Posted by u/CrankyBear
nothing. There is no way to predict the stock market. Even the way you're probably thinking of. Even the ones in the replies to this comment. Even the really basic ones and the really advanced ones.
This. If something "worked", then nobody would share it, or it's so popular that everyone has everyone applied it, and it doesn't work anymore.
Most of these homes are in regions with declining populations and scarce opportunity for employment.
so maybe just lower the price some more?
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altdataseller commented on Ask HN: Why is there not more concern about the physical security of Cloudflare? · Posted by u/dtquad
never heard of a story where physical security at any cloud provider has been a problem. are you worried about governments, or employees, or someone breaking in?
Just because there hasnt been a story doesnt mean its not important or critical
altdataseller commented on Ask HN: Solopreneurs, how did you come up with your idea? · Posted by u/californium
That does seem like the best way to go about it, but I have family who are doctors and they frequently talk about how tired they are of tech guys who read "The Mom Test" who now skulk around asking probing questions about pain points in a doctors daily work.
It just seems like any time there is a repeatable process for doing something, people will latch onto it and then do it until it is totally exhausted. Tech Entrepreneur especially has such a low barrier to entry and so many 'How To' guides that it feels super impacted.
Makes me wish software was closer to art, where someone has something they need to make just for the sake of bringing it into existence.
That, and when people ask me about my problems, i tell them about it. But then i realize they want to know about problems that have a scalable or easy solution they can build.
In other words, I gave them my damn problem but they arent interested in solving them.
So no, i aint talking to you about my problems anymore