It also got rid of some toxic mods since their actions are also public.

I remember a Reddit powermod complaining about it after the big migration.

With a JS-based query language, yeah

I’ve a slight manageable case of ADHD and I tend to obsessively hyperfocus on tasks. It’s a good relationship because I get a lot of shit done well, and enjoy my work.

If you start forcing me to plan out my day every day, down to 15 minute increments, my productivity drops by around 60%, because I stop concentrating on getting shit done, and start working to rule. Not because I’m vindictive, but because that’s what you asked me to do.

So they got their feelings satisfied with only a major annoyance to everyone and about a month of work wasted among everyone.

Definitely, and I’m saying that while my jobs were mostly on NoSQL and I love doing it.

My point is more that 90% of use cases don’t need that, and for those that do, you can’t just slap eg. Cassandra at it and pretend it’s a relational database.

MongoDB is huge though for all the wrong reasons, businesses think that just because it’s JS, they can just have frontend devs - sorry, they are “fullstack” now - doing DBA work.

I worked as one of two NoSQL DBAs for a Fortune 50 finance company, and there is a ton of CV-driven development going on giving NoSQL a bad name. Most use cases don’t need NoSQL. And for those which do, NoSQL is almost always harder to implement than simple SQL based RDBMSs.

I stand corrected. Thanks.

NoSQL has always been a niche use case thing.

For some stuff, no ACID is no problem. They have their place. What I’m more suspicious of is things like Google offering distributed databases that they pretend as if they could break the CAP theorem.

MS hasn’t released an Office version outside 365 for 8 years.

365 is Office for them.

They both got out of the meeting what they wanted.

Putin got to further erode NATO and the West, while Trump got a distraction from the fact he’s a nonce.

Yeah but it doesn’t matter what the objective of the scraper is, the only thing that matters is that it’s an automated client that is going to send mass requests to you. If it wasn’t, Anubis would not be a problem for it.

The effect is the same, increased hosting costs and less access for legitimate clients. And sites want to defend against it.

That said, it is not mandatory, you can avoid using Anubis as a host. Nobody is forcing you to use it. And as someone who regularly gets locked out of services because I use a VPN, Anubis is one of the least intrusive protection methods out there.

The dotcom bubble’s time still had some US antitrust enforcement, like with Microsoft and its browser dominance. It was an easier time.

I feel this attempt might be more successful.

They will try to fire everyone they can pointing to AI, and keep faking growth using the stock market as competition has been dead for a long time.

It’s not the “sentient computers killing everyone” that is the problem, it’s the psychopaths owning the text generators establishing a fascist regime.

And call the top layers tumbling down “legacy”

AI does not triple traffic. It’s a completely irrational statement to make.

Multiple testimonials from people who host sites say they do. Multiple Lemmy instances also supported this claim.

I would bet that the number of requests per year of s resource by an AI scrapper is on the dozens at most.

You obviously don’t know much about hosting a public server. Try dozens per second.

There is a booming startup industry all over the world training AI, and scraping data to sell to companies training AI. It’s not just Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter doing it, but also Chinese companies trying to compete. Also companies not developing public models, but models for internal use. They all use public cloud IPs, so the traffic is coming from all over incessantly.

Using as much energy as a available per scrapping doesn’t even make physical sense. What does that sentence even mean?

It means that Microsoft buys a server for scraping, they are going to be running it 24/7, with the CPU/network maxed out, maximum power use, to get as much data as they can. If the server can scrape 100 sites per minute, it will scrape 100 sites. If it can scrape 1000, it will scrape 1000, and if it can do 10, it will do 10.

It will not stop scraping ever, as it is the equivalent of shutting down a production line. Everyone always uses their scrapers as much as they can. Ironically, increasing the cost of scraping would result in less energy consumed in total, since it would force companies to work more “smart” and less “hard” at scraping and training AI.

Oh, and it’s S-C-R-A-P-I-N-G, not scrapping. It comes from the word “scrape”, meaning to remove the surface from an object using a sharp instrument, not “scrap”, which means to take something apart for its components.

Yeah it’s called chaos engineering and it can be fun.

Websites were under a constant noise of malicious requests even before AI, but now AI scraping of Lemmy instances usually triples traffic. While some sites can cope with this, this means a three-fold increase in hosting costs in order to essentially fuel investment portfolios.

AI scrapers will already use as much energy as available, so making them use more per site measn less sites being scraped, not more total energy used.

And this is not DDoS, the objective of scrapers is to get the data, not bring the site down, so while the server must reply to all requests, the clients can’t get the data out without doing more work than the server.

Australia can still require VPS providers to log IPs. This is the country with the backdooring law, common sense does not apply seemingly.

They would blacklist consumer VPN IPs and block payments to them, not prevent you from logging in to a corp network.