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Status: 9M hits from AI crawlers, <0.1% human.
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My first server was Apache on Suse Linux, in yr 2000. I've since deployed numerous webservers, many high traffic
Never guessed I'd one day be deploying a web project almost entirely for bots.
This is a view under the hood; the web is now more bot than human.
Our ideas, expressions, work, are being stolen for simulation & profit by a handful of companies, & at a scale comparable to deep-sea trawling.
It is our moral imperative to fight back.
RE: https://en.osm.town/@harry_wood/116562324497918231
So are the (Local Authority) Custodians of the address data able to license it? Shouldn't it be Open Data? I have to say I'm pleased The Netherlands has fallen on the correct side of this one (look at the addresses in OSM in NL).
I'm not sure people realise, but trying to review code rather than doing it myself requires much more cognitive power, especially when my trust of the job getting done properly is extremely low.
Yes one must start somewhere, but I've got *extremely* boring tasks of auditing certain engine APIs that are accessible to basically anyone and nobody wants to do it.
When this would actually be more impactful than following my "lead", especially if it comes out of nowhere and not ask me if I want help.
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/116396440868847302
It's not like heavily upfront funded corporations haven't been known to be unreliable in the past. When the crunch comes capital wants to be paid.
And these particular corporations have already shown themselves not to be the most consistently ethical.
I'm sure there were reasons till a year ago we were pushing for things like more Open Source, and lower resource usage. What were they again?
"I used AI. It worked. I hated it." by @mttaggart https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
This is a really good blogpost. And I"m sure it'll make some people unhappy to read whether they're pro or anti genAI. What's good about @mttaggart's blogpost is he talks honestly about how using Claude Code did actually solve the problem he set out to do. It needed various guardrails, but they were possible to set up, and the project worked. But the post is also completely clear and honest about how miserable it was:
- It removed the joy from the process
- If you aim to do the right thing and carefully evaluate the output, your job ends up eventually becoming "tapping the Y key"
- Ramifications on people learning things
- Plenty of other ethical analysis
- And the nagging wonder whether to use it next time, despite it being miserable.
I think this is important, because it *is* true that these tools are getting to the point where they can accomplish a lot of tasks, but the caveat space is very large (cotd)
Oh no! It's the test enviroment live!
You can register with it https://acc.ovpay.nl/ which is where a search sent me to. It'll send you emails. It has their valid DigiCert Inc SSL certificate*.
The live environment in https://www.ovpay.nl/ which doesn't have the mixed NL / EN and test alerts.
Remember folks. htaccess that staging environment, or/and redirect folks to you production environment if you change or update.
* Although on both the Certificate is only domain not org identifying.
Oh no! It's the test enviroment live!
You can register with it https://acc.ovpay.nl/ which is where a search sent me to. It'll send you emails. It has their valid DigiCert Inc SSL certificate*.
The live environment in https://www.ovpay.nl/ which doesn't have the mixed NL / EN and test alerts.
Remember folks. htaccess that staging environment, or/and redirect folks to you production environment if you change or update.
* Although on both the Certificate is only domain not org identifying.
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