Readit NewsI want to make sure that the password is between a given number of characters. Same with phone numbers, email addresses, etc.
This seems to have always been known as the length of the string.
This thread sounds like a bunch of scientists trying to make a simple concept a lot harder to understand.
If you do allow Unicode characters in whatever it is you're validating, then your approach is almost certainly wrong for some valid input.
The wealthiest people aren’t descendants of Julius Caesar, the Medicis, the Hapsburgs, Rollo (who is an ancestor to every European monarch), the Astors, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans, etc.
Some of these are moderately wealthy now (eg the Rothchilds) but they don’t dominate the world’s wealth.
Part of this is that can be hard to maintain a lineage over time. Also, foolish fail sons will squander family wealth.
But some wealthy people just go the French Revolution way.
I don’t believe the Gateses, Musks, Bezoses, etc will survive the upheaval, violence and revolution they are making inevitable.
Thing is, the actual lived experience of webmasters tells that the bots that scrape the internets for LLMs are nothing like crafted software. They are more like your neighborhood shit-for-brain meth junkies competing with one another who makes more robberies in a day, no matter the profit.
Those bots are extremely stupid. They are worse than script kiddies’ exploit searching software. They keep banging the pages without regard to how often, if ever, they change. If they were 1/10th like many scraping companies’ software, they wouldn’t be a problem in the first place.
Since these bots are so dumb, anything that is going to slow them down or stop them in their tracks is a good thing. Short of drone strikes on data centers or accidents involving owners of those companies that provide networks of botware and residential proxies for LLM companies, it seems fairly effective, doesn’t it?
Right now liberal people mostly sit back and wait for things to get better, it's not enough. (Also going and walking up and down is not really effective.)
And if you talk back? Why, you must be a pedophile or a terrorist, otherwise why would you have anything to hide?
It's gotten bad enough that people here on HN - Hacker News! - non-ironically make more or less this argument.