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New comment by stinky613 in "We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers"

stinky613 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:10:34 +0000

A year or two ago I personally encountered scraping bots that were scraping every possible resultant page from a given starting point. So if it scraped a search results page it would also scrape every single distinct combination of facets on that search (including nonsensical combinations e.g. products that match the filter "products where weight<2lbs AND weight>2lbs")

We ended up having to block entire ASNs and several subnets (lots from Facebook IPs, interestingly)

New comment by stinky613 in "Scoop: Judge Caught Using AI to Read His Court Decisions"

stinky613 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:47:57 +0000

Seems like they didn't even read the headline...

New comment by stinky613 in "Scoop: Judge Caught Using AI to Read His Court Decisions"

stinky613 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:44:53 +0000

That's not at all what the article says is happening.

"Immigration Judge John P. Burns has been using artificial intelligence *to generate audio recordings of his courtroom decisions* at the New York Broadway Immigration Court, according to internal Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) records obtained by Migrant Insider." [Emphasis added]

New comment by stinky613 in "A security incident that may involve your Plex account information"

stinky613 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:58:50 +0000

> requiring internet access to access local media

Good news! You can whitelist exceptions by IP/subnet

Go into Plex Settings, then Settings > Network (show advanced). Scroll down to "List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth"

"Comma separated list of IP addresses or IP/netmask entries for networks that are allowed to access Plex Media Server without logging in. When the server is signed out and this value is set, only localhost and addresses on this list will be allowed."

Put your local subnet and netmask into that (e.g. "192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0") and you should be all good

FYI, I also have "Secure Connections" set to "Preferred", but I don't know if that makes a difference for this or not

New comment by stinky613 in "Weird Ruby: Nil Conversions"

stinky613 — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:56:07 +0000

> Would be nice if Integer(nil) worked like Array(nil) though.

How would that work, though?

A value of 0 is conceptually different from not having a value

New comment by stinky613 in "Meta is cutting prices for its VR headsets"

stinky613 — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 19:12:11 +0000

Do people really believe that Meta isn't correlating/linking Meta accounts to Facebook accounts regardless of user consent?

I don't understand why we should trust this company to not do shady shit with user data

New comment by stinky613 in "[dead]"

stinky613 — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 19:15:14 +0000

I didn't say Musk was being a hypocrite, and I don't appreciate the smug sarcasm of your response

New comment by stinky613 in "[dead]"

stinky613 — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:37:51 +0000

Clearly she needs to charge enough for the sweatshirt to at least cover costs, and she provided reasons why the costs here would justify that price.

She could charge less if she used sweatshop labor, but that would make her a hypocrite. The price she lists is in-line with her oft-stated political/moral beliefs.

Musk's point here--as best as I can understand it--was to claim that AOC was being a hypocrite.

Also it still costs less than a Tesla sweatshirt ($75)

New comment by stinky613 in "Elon Musk asserts his “right to terminate” Twitter deal"

stinky613 — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 18:00:16 +0000

Musk waived his right to exercise internal due diligence

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/twitter-board-te...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-17/elon-m...

New comment by stinky613 in "Iceland stops using Moderna Covid-19 vaccine"

stinky613 — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 22:55:59 +0000

The part that confuses me the most is that the two 'vaccine side effects' in question are the swelling of muscles in or around the heart... But side effects of (even mild[1]) COVID infections include _damage_ to muscles in or around the heart.

It seems like halting the use of a flu vaccine because of the flu vaccine causing flu-like symptoms.

[1]https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

New comment by stinky613 in "GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website"

stinky613 — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 18:23:25 +0000

...well, yeah; that's what executives are hired to do

New comment by stinky613 in "AWS disables ISIS propaganda website it had hosted since April"

stinky613 — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 19:12:59 +0000

The Taliban in Afghanistan isn't/wasn't listed officially as terrorist group by the US government. The Taliban in Pakistan, however, is a terrorist organization, according to the US government.

The Taliban in Afghanistan may be morally repugnant, violent fundamentalists, but they are technically not a terrorist organization (in the context of the US)

https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/

New comment by stinky613 in "Tim Sweeney praises public domain and GPL software; hints at GPL Epic"

stinky613 — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 22:52:06 +0000

On yeah? So how do people run iOS apps on instruction-executing machines that weren't made by Apple?

New comment by stinky613 in "Tim Sweeney praises public domain and GPL software; hints at GPL Epic"

stinky613 — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 22:23:51 +0000

> The iPhone is an instruction-executing machine. That's what people buy.

That's not what people buy; that's the hardware they receive as part of their purchase.

New comment by stinky613 in "BBEdit 14"

stinky613 — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 23:23:09 +0000

I had that issue when upgrading from 3.x->4 -- I was so cocky from years of ST's insane consistency that it honestly didn't even occur to me that my unsaved documents might be lost.

I wasn't even mad; just a little surprised

New comment by stinky613 in "It’s Time for Real Time Settlement"

stinky613 — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 22:23:41 +0000

Completely agree; Robinhood seems to give us a new reason to distrust them each week.

The guy who allowed his service to store passwords as plaintext[1] says “There is no reason why the greatest financial system the world has ever seen cannot settle trades in real time.” -- pardon my fucking skepticism of the deep technical knowledge he must possess to make such a bold assertion

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/robinhood-stored-passwords...

New comment by stinky613 in "iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro"

stinky613 — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:32:20 +0000

I have an iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard. The magnetic attachment is fantastic. I can hold the palmrest on the keyboard, turn the whole thing upside down, and shake it without the iPad falling off.

From my first day of using them together all I could think was "I want this connection method on every tablet and phone"

Also, btw, the iPhone 12 MagSafe doesn't prevent you from using a case.

New comment by stinky613 in "Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices"

stinky613 — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 20:28:14 +0000

I tried doing that just moments ago and it wouldn't let me proceed without providing a phone number.

New comment by stinky613 in "New coronavirus can persist in air for hours and on surfaces for days – study"

stinky613 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:51:41 +0000

Fwiw, COVID-19 is the disease caused by the "2019 novel coronavirus". Afaik the most accurate and succinct way to refer to the virus itself is SARS-CoV-2.

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

New comment by stinky613 in "Stop Using Encrypted Email"

stinky613 — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:05:50 +0000

That's a great link! Thank you, very much