Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)


I knew that ai scraping was bad, but after hosting a service online for a bit I’m just amazed at how bad it is.
I blocked the ip ranges:
47.80.0.0/13, 47.74.0.0/15; 47.76.0.0/14(all owned by alibaba), and now my access log is 90%forbidden by rule, because these bots are so poorly coded that they just ignore 403s.Of all the 9715 requests I got today, only 230 were not forbidden.
If anything they sped up since I blocked them. Since this comment was posted they sent 4633 requests. All of which were blocked.
It makes me think that they’re sufficiently poorly designed that it’s treating the reset as a temporary communication issue. I wonder if you could use this to their detriment by configurating the server to silently drop the connection rather than RSTing it. From your server’s side it should look fairly similar, but from their side they actually have to spend the time putting together and sending the HTTP request before getting shut down.