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So any bad actor can launch a phishing campaign without even being tied to an account? Or did I misread?

ai slop analysis finding CF detects non javascript capable browsers with no punchline

heard from a vp recently, software developers are committing seppuku.

Just had my manager submit 3 PRs in a language he doesn’t understand (rust) and hasn’t ran or tested and is demanding quick reviews for hundreds of LoCs. These are tools but some people are clueless..

Find it a pity that the decision was to remove them instead of owning how the ranking is made. it’s going to be very very hard to differentiate between bots and humans at the dns query level, if possible at all. DNS magnitude is about the dispersion of source ips/networks and if this is a distributed bot net, it makes sense. and it’s about 1.1.1.1 queries, not overall dns queries, which they couldn’t possibly obtain. See this more as proof of the impact of these botnets, which I found super interesting. Removing them just makes it poorer imho.

Brands will ofc start gaming this and enshitification ensues

TIL Schrödinger Asshole - nice to be able to put a name on it

It’s pretty good actually. Used in a small scraping site and worked without a hitch.

This gives me nightmares tbh. Love that they say that they’re happy and healthy, lol.

At the minimum, systems like chatgpt should be forced to link to their sources, so it gives something back and so that its assertions can be verified - right now, it’s just good at bullshitting through questions.

Is the geofencing country level only? So if, using warp, I use trip advisor and go and see nearby restaurants it will have no idea of what city I’m in? Guessing that’s not so but wondering how it works

Monopolies in the long term tend to lead to higher prices because without good competition what’s the incentive to sell with low profit margins? So, sell cheap for years, kill any competition, then the market is yours and you can do whatever you want to the inevitable detriment of the consumer. The consumer also looses in monopolies.

Thought it surprising that amazon.com uses fastly when they have their own cdn