debugnik (u/debugnik)

debugnik commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

3036e4 · 5 hours ago

It's medium.com. YouTube comments quality text packaged as clickbait articles for some revenue share. It was always slop, even without LLMs. Do they even bother with paying human authors now or is the entire site just generated? That would probably be cheaper and improve quality.

debugnik · 4 hours ago

> Do they even bother with paying human authors now

I thought Medium was a stuck up blogging platform. Other than for paid subscriptions, why would they pay bloggers? Are they trying to become the next HuffPost or something?

debugnik commented on DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase aitidbits.ai/p/deepwiki... · Posted by u/childishnemo

Nullabillity · 14 hours ago

"Uses it" sounds strong.. I don't see any link to it from https://github.com/kieler/elkjs?

Annoyingly, anyone can just.. request a deepwiki for any GitHub repo. That one exists doesn't mean that it's endorsed or reviewed by the project.

They just kind of barged in, welcome or not. Just another SEO slop-spammer.

debugnik · 8 hours ago

A couple of years ago the OCaml and Julia languages already had to deal with a content farm that created wikis for them, filled them with LLM-generated, blatantly wrong or stupidly low quality content, and SEOed its way above actual learning materials. Cue in the newbies to these languages being incredibly confused.

This at least tries to generate the text out of the actual project, but I'm pessimistic and think it'll cause similar confusion.

debugnik commented on Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit emersion.fr/blog/2025/usi... · Posted by u/LaSombra

lukaslalinsky · 5 days ago

I was a huge fan of Podman, but I eventually gave up and use Docker Compose for local development. It's not worth fighting the system.

However, for single server deployments, where I don't need Kubernetes, I now exclusively use Quadlets to run apps and I couldn't be happier. It's a much nicer experience that using typical Docker/Podman setup. It feels integrated into the system.

debugnik · 5 days ago

> I was a huge fan of Podman, but I eventually gave up and use Docker Compose

You can mix them. I was using docker-compose with podman instead of docker before switching to quadlets. I still prefer the experience of compose files, but quadlets do integrate much better into systemd.

debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

heavyset_go · 6 days ago

That's not not the kind of proof of life the government and companies want online. They want to make sure their video identification 1) is of a living person right now, and 2) that living person matches their government ID.

It's a solution to the "grandma died but we've been collecting her Social Security benefits anyway", or "my son stole my wallet with my ID & credit card", or (god forbid) "We incapacitated/killed this person to access their bank account using facial ID".

It's also a solution to the problem advertisers, investors and platforms face of 1) wanting huge piles of video training data for free and 2) determining that a user truly is a monetizable human being and not a freeloader bot using stolen/sold credentials.

debugnik · 5 days ago

It's the kind of proof my government already asks of me to sign documents much, much more important than watching adult content, such as social security benefits.

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debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

heavyset_go · 6 days ago

There isn't a technical solution to this: governments and providers not only want proof of identity matching IDs, they want proof of life, too.

This will always end with live video of the person requesting to log in to provide proof of life at the very least, and if they're lazy/want more data, they'll tie in their ID verification process to their video pipeline.

debugnik · 6 days ago

You already provided proof of a living legal identity when you got the ID, and it already expires to make you provide proof again every few years.

debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

NoGravitas · 6 days ago

The point is that it will always be cheaper for bot farms to pass the challenge than for regular users.

debugnik · 6 days ago

Why does that matter? The challenge needs to stay expensive enough to slow down bots, but legitimate users won't be solving anywhere near the same amount of challenges and the alternative is the site getting crawled to death, so they can wait once in a while.

debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

Retr0id · 6 days ago

If you increase the difficulty much beyond what it currently is, legitimate users end up having to wait for ages.

debugnik · 6 days ago

And if you don't increase it, crawlers will DoS the sites again and legitimate users will have to wait until the next tech hype bubble for the site to load, which is the reason why software like Anubis is being installed in the first place.

debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

therein · 6 days ago

I am guessing you don't realize that that means people using not the latest generation phones will suffer.

debugnik · 6 days ago

I'm not using the latest generation of phones, not in the slightest, and I don't really care, because the alternative to Anubis-like intersitials is the sites not loading at all when they're mass-crawled to death.

debugnik commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

nialv7 · 6 days ago

Obviously the developer of Anubis thinks it is bypassing: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/978

debugnik · 6 days ago

Fair, then I obviously think Xe may have a kinda misguided understanding of their own product. I still stand by the concept I stated above.

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