Running web sites makes me not want to (lowkey.party)

33 pointsby speckx3 hours ago16 comments

baumschubser 40 minutes ago

from all aspects of AI, i find this the one that is easiest to ignore. AI might poison your reading, don't let it poison your writing. Why not continue doing your thing? This feeling of estrangement is not new in a world where every usefulness has to express itself as exchange value. Just have a service provider handle the additional load and don't stop being a thinking, writing, picture taking and social human being.

mitxela 36 minutes ago

Or poison your own writing for AI.

demibabs 26 minutes ago

It seems to me like he’s going to keep doing his thing. Just not on the open web.

hackingonempty 12 minutes ago

> moved to iocaine which is slightly different in what it does, and that was fine until so many scrapers hit my site that it saturated my upload with generated content feeding the them

You're feeding bots poison without rate limiting them all to some small fraction of your pipe?

phoronixrly 9 minutes ago

iocaine has shipped firewall support to temporarily drop traffic from IPs after you've fed them an appropriate amount poison. More people should enable it.

You should not traffic shape the egress lest you run out of workers handling legitimate traffic. You should also make sure connections are appropriately terminated on your side for the same reason.

nightdeployboy an hour ago

I also run a small side project site, and I get hundreds of thousands of bots visiting every week..

tonymet 9 minutes ago

I appreciate the decision to not run proof of work challenges. They punish all customers , and they especially punish outliers with excessive challenges : long challenge factors costing minutes, challenges that are presented many times a day, or ones where the challenge interferes with multi-screen oauth steps.

I haven’t seen an installation where the operator is tracking customer impact. They check the logs and say “see , we’ve screened 80% of the AI bots”. Meanwhile , among the 80% of bot traffic is a few percent of customers who are aggressively being punished without the operator being aware.

DaOne256 26 minutes ago

Maybe I'm just old but the font on this site is unreadable for me. But reader mode saves me. At least the clankers can read it...

iririririr 6 minutes ago

thinking running a website never got you 99.9% of requests from bot is just delusional.

anyway, if you really want to block scrappers, give up Anubis. it just about real users and do nothing against bots. simple block ISN that belong to cloud providers. it's that simple.

ericyd an hour ago

I didn't find this post particularly insightful, novel, or interesting, but it's notable how many people in tech are feeling a deep malaise for various reasons. I tend to believe these kinds of feelings come in waves, and in time it will pass, but it's always hard to see "the light at the end of the tunnel" when you're deep in feelings of frustration and meaninglessness.

dotancohen an hour ago

  > how many people in tech are feeling a deep malaise for various reasons

The unsatisfied are more vocal than the satisfied. Selection bias skews apparent sentiment far lower than actual sentiment.

add-sub-mul-div an hour ago

I assure you, the corporate tech and AI simps are incredibly vocal here as well. And have you seen LinkedIn lately?

forgetfreeman 22 minutes ago

I think you'll find that paid astroturf and ideolog touts collectively make way more noise than their detractors.

goatlover 10 minutes ago

Look at the US midterm results and how many elected candidates had AI regulation and data center moratoriums as part of their platform. The incoming Texas governor is saying she will halt data center approvals until new legislation is passed.

seki285 an hour ago

I didn't find this comment particularly insightful, novel, or interesting.

shiomiru 34 minutes ago

"The DDoS will continue until morale improves."