5 comments

  • Bender 2 hours ago
    still have the ability to disable the crawler via robots.txt flags

    Never rely on robots.txt. Configure it, but do not rely on it. A bot will do what a bot can do. Their bots are trivial to spot so close the connection, bonus if done silently closing the socket and inhibiting first RST from web daemon and second RST from the OS.

    • saghm 6 minutes ago
      Yeah, calling this "disabling" it is inaccurate, it's just "asking nicely".
    • cowlevel 1 hour ago
      Wouldn't feeding them false data be even better?
      • usrnm 1 hour ago
        That could consume as much, if not more, resources as returning real data
      • zeryx 26 minutes ago
        Angel banning is better, 100% agreed on giving it false data that the scraper builders can't easily detect. Give it seemingly correct and useful but totally wrong answers
      • esseph 1 hour ago
        We've already been using AI to target military strikes without human intervention.

        Make of that what you will.

  • DivingForGold 14 minutes ago
    DON'T TOUCH META's apps. Zuck is PUBLIC ENEMY #1
  • jareklupinski 2 hours ago
    just rename the company to Meta Law or Zuckerberg & Associates already
    • shevy-java 2 hours ago
      The name Suckerberg I mean Zuckerberg is so strange. That's just raw german:

      Zucker = Sugar Berg = Mountain (or a big hill, but typically it refers to a mountain)

      So, a "mountain of sugar" (lots of sugar).

      Suckerberg kind of fits better, since "sucker" is not german (berg still is of course; I think scandinavian countries also have berg, though that could be burg, aka castle). Plus, Suckerberg describes the evil behaviour of Facebook better. The USA really has a problem with its billionaires.

      • wongarsu 34 minutes ago
        [resource]+[mountain/stone/field/valley/tree] in German is a very common pattern for Jewish surnames. A quirk of how surnames were adopted in German-speaking regions in the 18th century

        Sugar mountain at least makes sense, unlike e.g. wine stone

      • fuzzy2 59 minutes ago
        Not strange. It's a Jewish name.
      • Scrapemist 1 hour ago
        What about Altman?
        • drooopy 41 minutes ago
          I read somewhere once that Sam Altman sounds like a name for a fictional villain made up by Hideo Kojima for Metal Gear Solid, and it will never not make sense.
        • N_Lens 1 hour ago
          Saltman
  • cyanydeez 2 hours ago
    Humanity experts warn oligarchs, "not good"

    News at never.

  • Heronsunny 1 hour ago
    Blocking by UA is pointless now, meta-externalagent rotates and a chunk comes off non-Meta ASNs. We matched on ASN plus TLS JA4 and that actually stuck.