froztbyte @ froztbyte @awful.systems

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negative reactions? to your own shitty posts?

well fuck damn, I wonder what’s confusing

once again: the fuck is this post

you could be right

is that Rao as in venkatesh?

(oh, you linked ribbonfarm, so I guess the answer is yes)

....the fuck is this post

nasb, hedgehog review on promptfans and learning

incorrect

whoosh

iswydt

god forbid any such posters think we want them pissing in our lounge

I wonder how many of these people will do a Very Sudden opinion reversal once these headwinds wind disappear

weren't you also here having shitty opinions like a week ago?

e: yes

the term of art is "residential proxy" and there's a ton of them

for example: it's the flipside of Bright's free VPN service - through Bright Data they sell people access proxied via some user's connection

yes, you can match on user agent, and then conditionally serve them other stuff (most webservers are fine with this). nepenthes and iocaine are the current preferred/recommended servers to serve them bot mazes

the thing is that the crawlers will also lie (openai definitely doesn't publish all its own source IPs, I've verified this myself), and will attempt a number of workarounds (like using residential proxies too)

I hadn’t encountered either the Howard person nor heard of this podcast, but imma find that episode and listen because it sounds like quite an experience!

the Russian Exit, a classic

as a lot can be learned from trying to fix weird bugs

a truism, but not one I believe many of our esteemed promptfuckers could appreciate

citation

and here I was graciously giving the promptfuckers a choice

for anyone that finds this thread in the future: "check if vga@sopuli.xiz contributed to this codebase" is an easy hack for this test