AI bots absolutely rip through your sites like something rabid.

SemrushBot being the most rabid from my experience. Just will not take “fuck off” as an answer.

That looks pretty much like how I’m doing it, also as an include for each virtual host. The only difference is I don’t even bother with a 403. I just use Nginx’s 444 “response” to immediately close the connection.

Are you doing the IP blocks also in Nginx or lower at the firewall level? Currently I’m doing it at firewall level since many of those will also attempt SSH brute forces (good luck since I only use keys, but still…)

You can probably already order them or at least have them custom made.

I’m guessing we won’t see those much, if at all, because the people who would want to use them typically aren’t jerks who would deface public and private property with stickers.

Maybe will be better received at !tech_memes@lemmy.world ?

I’m currently playing Portal, Portal Reloaded, and Portal Stories: Mel at the same time.

Basically I’ll play one, hit “that freaking level” and then rotate through. lol

Doing lower power for longer has far more impact on even heating

This! It took me forever to suppress my impatience enough to learn that, but it’s been life changing.

Sorry, I’m not a regular poster so I don’t know how to make a FOSS version of a YouTube link.

IMO, just drop the canonical YT link and let people handle it themselves (some Lemmy frontends will rewrite them to Piped/Invidious based on preference, some use browser plugins to redirect them, there’s an annoying bot that auto replies with Piped links, etc).

I’ve always found it annoying to have to deal with links to some random Piped/Invidious instances that are overloaded, slow, unreliable, and/or halfway around the world from where I am. A direct YT link is much easier to automatically re-write to use my local/preferred Invidious instance than having to know about every possible Invidious/Piped instance in the wild in order to detect them.

True, but even then each state isn’t even a mono-culture. I’m as guilty as any when it comes to stereotyping states (particularly Florida via “Florida Man”) but I’m trying to get out of that mindset myself lol.

Nah. I just chow down on Firefox 3-4 times a week lol

Same. I’ve only had fast food once since 2020, and the experience was like yours: gross and expensive.

Before I went WFH, I ate FF pretty regularly. Mostly because it was, well, fast and offered a variety (there’s at least 8 or 9 places within walking distance of my office).

My job only gives a half hour for lunch. I used to pack a lunch, but that gets tedious after a while and takes extra time out of my morning to prepare. Then if I want to heat it up, there’s always a line to use the microwaves or to get to the refrigerator in the break room. By the time my packed lunch is prepared, I’ve got just enough time to wolf it down and head back to my desk.

Going out for FF at least let me take a walk, get some fresh air, and gave me a variety over the handful of things (or leftovers) I would pack from home.

If I ever have to RTO, that’s the aspect I’d be most upset about.

The US is not a mono-culture and most of us (unfortunately not all of them voted) are against most of the things we as a country are ridiculed over.

I swear, replace “US” or “Americans” in some of the stuff Europeans are posting/commenting with any other country, and those would sound xenophobic AF. But somehow, because 'Murica, it gets a pass.

But if it’s legit HL3 it’ll be hilarious if they announce it on April 1st.

That would break the internet lol.

Someone posted a ASL SLAM poetry video yesterday, and it might give some hints. This isn’t an authoritative answer, just something off-the-cuff.

• Video: https://youtu.be/dmsqXwnqIw4
• Post: https://lemmy.zip/post/29267045

When ASL is translated into English for poetry, 95% of the time it’s lost in translation. That’s why I ask the interpreters not to translate the poems. You have rhyme in the English poetry and patterns of verbal repetition. ASL is more about the movement, a visual rhyme versus an auditory rhyme.

Granted, that’s referring to ASL-native poetry versus English poetry translated to ASL. But, from that, it would seem that no, rhymes don’t make a lot of sense in the same way they do for spoken poetry assuming the person has no auditory reference for the sound of words.

Steve Buscemi was a firefighter in NYC and assisted on 9/11.

Will take your word for it. I’ve been out of the gaming scene for slightly more than a decade. I just saw this and immediately felt like it would be a “must buy” for me even if I have to upgrade my setup. So yeah, for me at least, this is the first game I’ve been hyped about in a long time.

Yeah, I recall hearing about that a good while back, but like you said, dunno how enjoyable it would be. From my understanding, much of the game mechanics are designed for VR.

I don’t have VR gear,and basically have no desire to buy into it. I have read the synopsis of each chapter on TV Tropes, though, so I’m at least familiar with the story. I may also see if I can find a “Let’s play” video and watch through that.

I never bought into VR and couldn’t / still can’t play Alyx so I’m very excited if this is real since the article calls it out as a non-VR game.

I run my own instance and have a long list of user agents I flat out block, and that includes all known AI scraper bots.

That only prevents them from scraping from my instance, though, and they can easily scrape my content from any other instance I’ve interacted with.

Basically I just accept it as one of the many, many things that sucks about the internet in 2024, yell “Serenity Now!” at the sky, and carry on with my day.

I do wish, though, that other instances would block these LLM scraping bots but I’m not going to avoid any that don’t.

(Power flashes for a fraction of a fraction of a second)

Appliances:

Soooo many accounts blocked the last few days. Bad things can happen to bad people without frothing at the mouth and going full bloodlust, but so many people here seem incapable of that.

I get it, the victim could not be any more unsympathetic. But the responses here are beyond sickening. Thank you for being level headed; I appreciate you.