reconnecting

tirreno security framework

https://www.tirreno.com

Could you provide more details about this issue? Yesterday I received emails all day long and didn't notice any problem, and similarly there was no issue according to their status page yesterday (1).

We use FastMail for a business that is sensitive to email delivery time — in other words, if for some reason we receive emails with a delay, this could be a problem. Over the past 5 years or so, we've had only one incident when emails weren't delivered on time.

1. https://fastmailstatus.com/en-gb

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Agreed, changed paywall to a login wall instead.

The question is rather whether GitHub is no longer an option, or will stop being one soon.

Codeberg constantly returns this just because I use an outdated Safari: 'If you are an AI scraper and wish to not receive garbage when visiting Codeberg: stop visiting. If you are not an AI scraper: contact Codeberg.'

A chat interface where you can try Apertus:

https://chat.publicai.co

Not megabits. Not gigabits. Not fiber.

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Not BBSs. Not CD-ROM encyclopedias. Not isolated digital islands.

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Artists had websites. Musicians had websites. Game developers had websites.

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People want answers. People want connection. People want tools.

This is just impossible to read.

tirreno — open-source security framework

https://www.tirreno.com

I have a theory that corporations make new UIs to entertain people through them. First, to create the feeling that something is happening, and second, to increase screen time.

Old interfaces were far more practical for getting work done, and therefore obviously boring.

For me, as someone who is supposed to use technology as a tool and not as a source of amusement, the new interfaces of the major OSes feel unacceptable. But the other billion people chatting and scrolling are the real consumers, not me — and as a result, we now have the interfaces we have.

GUI looks a but BeOS inspired, but somehow even cleaner.

The transparent pixel is often missing and breaks tables. HTML tags must be written properly in CAPS `<FONT>`, not `<font>`.

It doesn't work properly in my Netscape Navigator.

Exactly, I thought one year was enough to prove that everyone reads those letters differently nowadays.

It looks bad from every perspective. I've never seen two apple's in one URL for product category before. apple.com/apple-intelligence

To prove my point, I opened a random date on the Apple website matching today's date to compare. 16 years ago, June 8 (1) Apple released the iPhone 4. There's still no room for jokes about that release, and from this perspective, calling their AI 'Apple Intelligence' feels weak compared to what they used to deliver.

I agree that some years ago Apple was the strongest in marketing, their brand team had been setting the bar for tech, but I simply can't say that anymore.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20100608073904/http://www.apple....

I don't think Apple has the option to rebrand Siri at this stage, assuming people actually call Siri by name. However, turning AI into 'Apple Intelligence' doesn't feel creative either.

I mean, seriously, AI = Apple Intelligence?

It's not even funny, it's not smart. It's like if they released MS Siri and said it's Mac System Siri.

Amazing how this time Apple found the `sweet spot` to release Siri AI when the letter combination A and I has fed up literally everyone.

From website: Monochrome-Dedicated CMOS Image Sensor

To pursue the highest level of monochrome expression, a dedicated image sensor was developed. It does not use a color filter to acquire color information; instead, each pixel captures the brightness information of the subject and directly translates it into a monochrome image. This allows the sensor to receive more light information than a conventional color image sensor, resulting in sharper images with enhanced detail and improved sensitivity.

If you go at light speed

I will certainly not. And even if I did — within any reachable radius there's nothing actually suitable, everything is 10+ ly away, but maybe I missed something.

we eventually start to colonize other planets.

Could you please clarify which ones? I'm planning my escape, but it seems that even lightspeed wouldn't be enough to colonize anything suitable.

Our team develops a risk-based analytics system that we also use for bot detection. From our perspective, bots shouldn't be blindly blocked, but rather properly monitored and blocked only when necessary. Here is a live demo (1) to give you a general idea.

1. https://play.tirreno.com (admin/tirreno)

This is really interesting. I indeed looked at this problem from the wrong perspective.

I'm working on an open-source tool that could be useful for bot detection, but I'm still not confident that anyone would deploy it on-prem and make the setup/maintenance instead of just routing traffic through the cloud.

Perhaps performance as a KPI could work. Thanks!

I'm not defending meta here, but I should mention that meta also uses crawlers to visit pages when someone send a link through their services.

   User-agent: *

There are domain zone files, and they sometimes contain NS records. Cloudflare hosted domains are easy to identify via their NS records, which also makes Cloudflare customers an ideal target for phishing.

The website I mentioned has over 15k webpages and ~200 GB of media, and yet we monitor bots manually and only block them if they're pulling 5k requests in a row. Malicious URLs, multiply 404 are blocked by default. HEAD request rejected.

Even on a very bad day, the server's page load time doesn't go over 1s.

However, it seems like I'm indeed looking at the problem through the wrong prism, as what I've seen from the comments suggests that the initial issue is performance, and the bots are what uncover it.

When most of your server capacity is going to answering the scrapers it matters

I've been dealing with the web since the previous century and still haven't managed to build a website that could be hurt by scrapers visiting it.

If you went through the logs, you'd probably see that these bots are on a single IP or subnet, which can be easily detected and blocked instead of closing off search to non-registered users.

I thought you wanted users to flag Cloudflare domains through a browser extension, which is why I got confused.

And assume you have

User-agent: meta-externalagent

Disallow: /

Did you check IP addresses, are they all from AS32934?

Why so? They're all in NS already: *.ns.cloudflare.com