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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • It’s amazing to me how bad these scrapers are at it, too. I’ve been battling them on my personal Forgejo instance and the amount of redundant pointless data they’re pulling is amazing. They’re also completely happy to overwhelm my server with so much traffic that they’re Three Stooges-ing themselves by essentially DDoSing the machine they want responses from.

    I can only assume these scrapers are vibe coded and never critically evaluated.

  • All these issues are valid and need solving but I’m kind of tired of people implying we shouldn’t do certain work because of efficiency.

    And tech gets all the scrutiny for some reason (it’s transparency?). I can’t recall the last time I’ve seen an article on industrial machine efficiency and how we should just stop producing whatever.

    What we really need to do is find ways to improve efficiency on all work while moving towards carbon neutrality. All work is valid.

    If I want to compute pi for no reason or drive to the Grand Canyon for lunch, I should be able to do so.