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All this effort to block clankers? Absolutely worth it fuck clankers.
I absolutely love the term clankers. It's the perfect blend of dystopian cyberpunk and the very real threat of AI.
It seems goofy to me — I wish we had collectively picked a term with more oomph.
I’m struggling to come up with an alternative though.
So say we all.
I'm still trying to make 'sloppers' happen. Perfectly describes the lack of thought that goes into what they produce.
I like 'sloppers' as a term for the morons distrubing and consuming the shit that the clankers are excreting.
Yeah and the make a mess of network traffic that slows everything down.
Sludgers works too, but I like slop for the LLM output, so it makes sense as the bot term of derision.
Stealing a slur from Star Wars and engaging in traditional name calling to show we disapprove of uncreative slop.
We can't even think of an original term. We can't think of a novel way to shit on AI. We just copy what everyone else is doing to make fun of the plagiarism machine.
Why does everyone think the term came from Star Wars? I know it was used in steampunk before then, and google suggests it goes back to a 1958 article about robots. Sorry, not trying to be pedantic, just feels like a lot of people give Star Wars unjust credit for things they didn't actually create.
Opnsense > pfsense
The fact that I have to go through a fucking purchase page, even though pfsense is free (for now), is sketch as hell. First step in their inevitable enshittification.
Opnsense is funded by European non-profits, and is has a better UI
Should we just move everything to tor and start the Internet over again?
look if i can't browse from my fridge i don't want to know about it
Wait till you hear about betanet
And then you have to fill a block list with something like https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker
Well it cant be that good becauase it thinks im a bot.
Anubis works pretty well for me so far in blocking clankers.
It seems Anubis’github issues shows many false positives with smartphone browsers. Depending on OP’s target audience it’s worth to hunt for FP
I just wish i could read it, it seems to block based on my IP which isn't really a good way to identify bots.
Here is a mirror https://git.qiuwen.net.cn/Mirror/anubis handle with care
Thanks but i meant the site in the original post https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/debian-netinstall-waf.html
It says
403 Error Your IP address has been blocked. This MAY be because you have made yourself look like a robot by using an unknown VPN or Tor exit node.
I just used a bot to read it: https://web.archive.org/web/20250901133211/https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/debian-netinstall-waf.html
Here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20250901133211/https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/debian-netinstall-waf.html
They seem to block archive.today but not archive.org.
Aka "how to harm marginalized folks" and prevent them from accessing your content too
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