The scraping industry has become quite diverse regarding vertical integration lately. There are: - "legitimate" companies selling residential and mobile proxies - full service companies where you provide a url and you receive the scrape result, some with an API frontend. (regarding the full service firms the pricing is directly correlated to anti-bot overcoming techniques) - There are a couple of sites like multi-vendor marketplaces for scrapers. Vendors will provide the spider program, the site operator will run it, and the user will pay per result
It could be one of these fully automated firms working for OpenAI. Many people have the illusion that these neural algorithms are intelligent monoliths whereas it is usually the combination of many neural nets alongside traditional web infrastructure.
> adjacent to similar groups like Korps and voidpunk and whatnot. You know, this sounds like some esoteric music subculture. Where in the 80s you'd get drunk with goth girls and have your identity revolve around that, nowadays these "people" goon in discord 24/7.
They provide: - News aggregation - collection - categorization - cataloguing - publication - Supportive Information gathering - News contextualization - Community synchronization and agenda setting
These hold true from a small newsletter to globe spanning news networks. And they are necessary for the well being of a community. It is their motives that makes them different from one another, and specifically whose interests they promote.
>do have the decency to stay on topic, we are, in this thread, discussing the sort of press that reports on OpenAI and not something more similar to a group chat that says the neighbor on the corner has extra canned fruits.
The OP was about AI output being logged which is presumably done at the request of online news publications. Which somehow invalidates the press as a whole. I am not talking about a group chat, but I am including a community newsletter. Don't play retarded at how a topic evolves throughout a conversation.
>are somehow not ordinary but actually a subversion requires justification.
Social degradation is indeed a very common phenomenon. Doesn't mean it is sustainable though. An alienated mass of slaves will consume whatever information their masters choose to feed them. Their masters still need private, high quality, news aggregation. I'd rather not call this the natural state of social existence.
>it is better that nobody is 'blamed'. We should be blamed for not realizing that those running the news were not working with our interests in mind. We should not be blamed for using news organizations. Here, I hope that clears things out.
A newsletter performs many valuable functions in a community. The subversion of the role of the press only follows social fragmentation and alienation. I'm sure that the news agency of [insert cult here] is working in the interests of the cult. If /we/ are to be blamed about something, it is about believing that we should be entitled to news promoting our interests without organizing with each other, while failing to notice how all social institutions got taken over.
It is unnatural for social organizations where citizen hold political power, it is natural for social organizations involving rulers and subjects. But I think that this state of subversion is the unnatural phenomenon for
Anubis has a very extensive configuration, I'm sure frequency can be set. I just don't think Josh is a good programmer. He is responsible for the whole database getting stolen because he thought he'd program a chat component in (safe) rust. The nature of the bug, him failing to do input validation, doesn't help.
I am very interested in browser fingerprinting :) The advanced methods use undocumented js features to infer processor model, ram and other hardware characteristics. There is no real countermeasure to that. What sophisticated netizens employ is remote controlling browsers that run on a phone or a Mac. That way the hardware looks the same. Think Chinese phone farms or how online.net offers Mac mini timeshares.
Still, certain sites push it further by analyzing behavior across all the points they have inputs. So g*ogle for instance, will monitor your mouse movements, your search terms, how often it sees your fingerprint, etc and use all of that data to score you for captcha v3
>since you can just change the UA. That's just the default configuration. Anubis is an anti ddos component, a cloudcuck alternative. The authors chose this default for easier adoption.
It is not a novel idea. Pretty sure I have an early implementation somewhere using nginx lua. That's where josh from the farms found it and started using it during the ddos. It was one of the very few things that made a significant difference. That and tor hosting. I think he also tried to sell it as a service later.
Given how enbedded cloufed is and how exposed a site becomes without it, I'd say it is a good development that this kind of software gains popularity.
When I was bitten by a stray dog a decade ago (got scared by my motorbike), I too remember it was kinda swollen a bit for a week. Probably wouldn't have swollen if I had taken the antibiotics I was prescribed for it at the emergency room (where I went to get a tetanus shot just in case). 950c330295a38ce07f72e2e3637becceadf7b998700c4686a8a60b41f48de103.png
The city is but a support system for a goth girl nest, everybody knows that.
I think that it isn't about density but rather about atomization. "Social" technology atomizes us further. TPTB want an undifferentiated mass of people that are completely atomized from each other and thus easily controlled. The only thing that can stop the loss of personal freedom is being a member of a group of people ready to defend said freedoms.
I'd say the optimal density is that which allows you to meet your local chapter of the supergroup you belong to at least once a week in person.
It has more chances to work with durable goods, such as Chinese car producers displacing Tesla for instance, than luxury goods. Luxury producers might be working with some seemingly huge margins, but if you take into account marketing they are not as impressive. They too will take a hit if they relocate to India or similar.
I'd look out for wealthy Chinese people switching to Chinese owned luxury brands, but I don't know how close we are at that.