not even Rat’xal, Lord of 10,000 Rats, could defy the sanctity of my grain and lentil storage situation

You’ve found the way to ward off Pete Buttigieg!??

I find this to be a very compelling argument, actually.

I used to sit and monitor my server access logs. You can tell by the access patterns. Many of the well-behaved bots announce themselves in their user agents, so you can see when they’re on. I could see them crawl the main body of my website, but not go to a subdomain, which is clearly linked from the homepage but is disallowed from my robots.txt.

On the other hand, spammy bots that are trying to attack you will often instead have access patterns that try to probe your website for common configurations for common CMSes like WordPress. They don’t tend to crawl.

Google also provides a tool to test robots.txt, for example.

I agree with your points 2-4 but I have observed on my own website that the crawlers who don’t respect won’t, and the crawlers who do respect will.

Of course it’s voluntary, but if entities like OpenAI say they will respect it then presumably they really will.

it is kind of amusing how zuckerberg is having meta release their models for free for no other reason than to seemingly fuck with microsoft/openai

Truly. But this was just something I downloaded off the net and wanted to repurpose for my own needs, so rearchitecting it to use Grid or Flex was way more effort than I wished to put in.

I’ve used a self-hosted Llama 3 to answer some questions about css and centering a div that I was having trouble with (I’m not a web dev by profession, nor am I aspiring to be one). You have to prod at it a few times to get it to tell you something useful which it ultimately did.

That’s about as far as I can work with it: asking and re-asking it very common questions that have been discussed and answered 700 times over (but the answer to which is unknown to me, specifically) in the hopes of getting something actually useful. So to that end, of course it can give me an example implementation of common leetcode questions in C, but it cannot reliably do something that requires a bit more originality.

breaking my back to let people know how much i’ll publicly defend nazis, specifically, which is suddenly very important to me.

You can go to about:profiles and then relaunch the web browser with all add ons disabled to see if that changes things up for you. Though I imagine browsing the web without uBlock Origin on is its own special hell.

A lot of dbzer0 users are cool people

• andrew yang campaign donor mindset

support the state-sanctioned genocide or be unemployed. is that deal being made right now?

Whoa, I remember this site and article, both

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I don’t really understand your fstab question as you wrote it, but why aren’t you using either genfstab or letting archinstall just do all the tedious parts for you?

Fedora is a poor distro for absolute newcomers because they do not ship any proprietary software by default*, nor do they keep any in their repos. If you want a free-software-only distro and have (the correct) philosophical inclination for a world without proprietary software, it’s an excellent choice.

Fedora is the distro I use, but with support from RPMFusion for things like FFmpeg with proprietary codecs, my stupid Nvidia proprietary driver, and so on.

*https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-approval/#_licenses_allowed_for_firmware Fedora makes an exception for some binary firmware images

It’s so aggressive. When I was young I could watch the players on the court. Now they have the tracking technology (which… as someone into 3d graphics programming I have to admit, that kind of technology is cool) to project ads into the space dynamically. So the court just has more and more virtual real estate sold off for viewers at home. I’m sure it’s all perfectly focus and user tested to ensure the exact right balance between unwatchable garbage and, “Ok, I can notice it and maybe I don’t like it but I can barely ignore it.”

I can appreciate NFL athletes wanting to just stand around and catch their breath, because of the intensity of the sport.

This is an interesting tidbit.

However, the fact that Roku even explored this points to a major underlying issue: These days, TV makers hardly make any money with their physical products. Roku’s FY 2023 earnings report shows that the company lost $44 million on the sale of smart TVs, streaming players and other devices in 2023. What brings in the bacon are ads and services; Roku generated a gross profit of nearly $1.6 billion with this business segment.

The only purpose of the TV is to show you ads indefinitely. Even when the sale, which is a loss leader, is recouped by ads you’d think, “Hmm. Maybe that’s enough of that.” But no, for these companies and their insatiable greed it will never be enough.