so how would cloudflare tell the difference between the good ‘stripped down’ queries and the bad? still not hearing how that is supposed to work. if there’s no way to tell the difference, the baby will be thrown out with the bathwater, and I can’t blame them.
I don’t see how categorically blocking non-human traffic is irrational given the current environment of AI scanning. And what’s rational about demanding cloudflare distinguish between the ‘good guy’ AI and ‘bad guy’ AI without proposing any methodology for doing so.
LOL “human sourced traffic” oh the tragedy. I for one am rooting for perplexity to go out of business forever.
Yes your “leave the internet any time you want” strawman is not a good argument.
If allowing perplexity while blocking the bad guys is so easy why not find a service that does that for you?
So you’re a cloudflare customer and you wish they would let the perplexity traffic multiplier through to your website? You can leave cloudflare any time you want.
So sad for them. Try not living in a war zone?
If a neighborhood is beset by roving bands of thieves, sooner or later strangers will be greeted by a shotgun rather than an invitation to tea, regardless of their intentions. Them’s the breaks. Bots are going to take a hit now and their operators are just going to have to deal with it. Sucks when people don’t play nice, but this is what you get.
Ha, anyone DOSing them with constant compute requests? I read an article where a 200$ a month user was using tens of thousands of dollars of compute.
maybe search for system76 too. I found one on my local craigslist.
loving my recently acquired T480. not the fastest by any means, but solid and great keyboard. plus non-soldered memory allows for upgrades. got mine off craigslist for 120, a steal.
I’ve been running librewolf and it logs me out of everything every time I shut it down, so this is my normal view.
I love it actually. Better than nazi adjacent vids and body horror stuff like boil maintenance and botfly removal. Fresh youtube accounts get the WORST stuff.
they only offer the one laptop, a T480. Not an HP, Dell, etc. Ongoing fixes to the UEFI and BIOS code are irrelevant as this has libreboot instead. That’s like saying you’re missing out on windows updates if you run linux.
And anyway the T480 is at end of life:
This product is no longer being actively supported by development (End of Development Support) and no further software updates will be provided.
When you finally see the big picture, you have to die because you know too much.
I’ve had good luck with an X201, W520, and T480 - all thinkpads. Haven’t tried any of the lower end lenovo models. I got my W520 new and my other ones off craigslist.
If you’re looking to get a preinstalled OS and from a refurb vendor, an interesting option would be buying from libreboot. Debian/KDE by default or you can choose your own distro. Libreboot is a good cause, and sales funds the project. You’ll have the most secure bios on the block.
love mine I got on craigs for cheap. works great and upgraded to 32G with memory from my old dead laptop.
I’m following the progress of nixos on snapdragon, but its still a bit early for me. Audio kind of working but might damage your speakers, webcam not working, crashing on 64G version but not 32G, etc. Also some funny business about needing windows for firmware or something. These issues are getting resolved but aren’t completely solid yet IMO.
Don’t know where things stand on the more mainstream distros but I’m guessing its probably similar.
there are groups on mastodon?
I switched to nixos years ago. Its better now than it ever has been as far as available packages and etc. But it does present issues if you get off the beaten path - the “now you have two problems” issue. For instance:
That said, more and more projects are supporting nix, and nixpkgs has gotten really big. I think they support more packages than any other distro now.
Did zucko not pay his protection money?
all I’m gonna say is buy maybelline