Any point in writing a scraper trap? On your main page have links to a page that generates garbage-ish text. That page also has links on it to the random garbage generator. Those are of course also generated. Use the URL to seed the garbage generator so your get consistent garbage. Have as many pages as your can generate URLs for. 2^64 should be a nice round number. Have a robots.txt to warn off scrapers. If something keeps digging around in the crap, it will be a scraper, so block the IP address.
Yes. That's what I thought and that, as much as anything else, gets my goat. I understand that TPTB were probably not allowed to say why, but the "reasoning" for removing it seemed specious to me.
See the post literally above yours where they put the fora specifically in the ‘disallow’ list for any and all LLM scrapers in the robots.txt file. It really does appear that Open AI gets to scrape the journalism, and that’s it.
Well, that is in no way binding or enforceable. It relies on voluntary cooperation. Which may or may not occur and may or may not lead to law suits.
Couple thoughts:
Good job, Copilot. I’m totally the same person now as then!
The stuff that's included there are Xenforo UI bits and secondary pages that shouldn't be indexed (like the login or search pages). It does not include thread content (which would require a blanket exclusion for
/civis/, or a more general exclude for /civis/threads/; the one there right now just prevents indexing the specific version of the thread page that's used in the article comment iframe).That can be mitigated by policing, behavioural monitoring, a subscription fee, cooling off period, etc. There are many technical solutions.
That is very true, so what is the answer? Just roll over and take it like a bitch?
Y'all don't think they're going to get better at this stuff?Yep. Copilots response for me was a very quick summation of a pair of events from… checks notes… 15 and 17 years ago.
Yep.
As well as the pension fund for Sears' employees. My aunt worked for Sears for decades and retired with a modest pension. She lost her pension completely during the bankruptcy ensuing after Edward Lampert's hedge fund ran Sears into the ground.
This shit happens in the UK, too. I have no idea why pension funds aren’t protected from bankruptcy/creditor claims. That shit isn’t a company asset that creditors should be able to lay claim to, and it isn’t a pile of cash venture capitalists should be able to raid or raise finance off.
CoPilot figured out I like space stuff, other poking returned nonsense.
Point out that all of the ethernet needs to come out because it violates the fire code. (I'm assuming it's not stranded riser/plenum grade). So you get to bill them for starting from scratch.
It's all in deadspace or conduit so technically it doesn't need to be plenum rated just riser rated. But nearly everything we run is CMP because it's just easier to keep one class of cable around and the cost delta between CMP and CMR is not enough to justify the logistical (and potential legal) headaches of mixing up CMP and CMR.
It's true. In-famous is when you're MORE than famous. This man Caesar, he's not just famous, he's IN-famous.
Their community is central to who they are, and they’ve even made editorial hires from within the community. So, recognizing their most-valued members is essential. They’ve revived their fun, semi-serious community-ranking system based on ancient Roman society. Ranks appear next to users’ names on forum posts and story/article comments, celebrating tenure and productivity. It’s a little nerdy (OK, a lot nerdy), but it’s their unique brand of nerdiness!1
It didn't even get anything about the call of the walrus? Or your previous nom de guerre?
