tepidsaucer's comments

On: Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable

[tepidsaucer]

Something something man understand, something something salary depends on.

On: Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable

[tepidsaucer]

Tell that to the moderation team.

[verdverm → tepidsaucer]

The HN users are the "moderation team"

There is one official mod who steps in occasionally. He is not the one flagging stories or comments. If a big story becomes unflagged, that is his doing more often than not

On: Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable

[tepidsaucer]

It's already useless, and companies seem to be doubling down.

On: Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable

[tepidsaucer]

Oh, police will happily enforce IP law, if the MPAA or RIAA want them to. You only get a pass if you're a thought leader.

On: Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable

[tepidsaucer]

That is an unworkable solution considering most of the people here are employed by these companies.

[advael → tepidsaucer]

Certainly most of the ones with green names for whom a reply to me criticizing a big tech company or disavowing them in aggregate is among their first ten must be

[amanaplanacanal → tepidsaucer]

I would bet only a tiny minority here are working for big tech.

On: Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable

[tepidsaucer]

I wind up in jail for ten years if I download an episode of iCarly; Sam Altman inhales every last byte on the internet and gets a ticker tape parade. Make it make sense.

On: Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable

[tepidsaucer]

Why is it my responsibility to piss into the wind because these billionaire companies keep getting to break the law with impunity?

On: Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable

[tepidsaucer]

Yes, people have probably analyzed Alexa traffic once or twice over the years.

[photonthug → tepidsaucer]

You joke, but do people analyze it continuously forever also? Because if we’re being paranoid, that’s something you’d need to do in order to account for random updates that are probably happening all the time.

On: Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable

[tepidsaucer]

When will the last Hacker News realize that Meta and OpenAI and every last massive tech company were always going to screw us all over for a quick buck?

Remember, Facebook famously made it easy to scrape your friends from MySpace, and then banned that exact same activity from their site once they got big.

Wake the f*ck up.