because anti-ai crowd is loud and stupid. They don't know how to use ai tools and keep complaining ai does a bad job when prompted "build me a Twitter clone".
I'm one of those who have enabled cloudflare on all of the sites I maintain. Additionally, Added turnstile on every form.
I know some actual users get blocked. But the amount of spam we get without it, the amount of bot traffic simply overwhelming the server... It is just too much.
Recently I also hard blocked all IPs from china Singapore India Pakistan Russia and whole of africa. Do I want to do it? No. But the amount of bot traffic and corresponding spam is a bigger problem :(
> I know some actual users get blocked. But the amount of spam we get without it, the amount of bot traffic simply overwhelming the server... It is just too much.
So why not just shut down the website? Or remove the form entirely? That will ensure that you get no spam, right?
One of the core tenets of system design is Availability. If your service is not available - if your forms are blocking legitimate users - then why are you pretending to have a form submission feature at all? Just to frustrate users?
> One of the core tenets of system design is Availability. If your service is not available
The service won't be available to anybody because of overwhelming unwanted traffic. Now it's available for most potential users. You're speaking econ 101 when everyone else has played out iterated prisoner's dilemmas.
> So why not just shut down the website? Or remove the form entirely? That will ensure that you get no spam, right?
Turns out that people have a tolerance for a non-zero amount of work, but still have a limit.
Suggesting "turn off your website" is does not account for the desire to also provide some access.
Treat people who host content as humans, just as we must treat users as humans. There are tradeoffs, suggesting "shut down your website unless you provide access everywhere" is worse on all fronts for everyone.
> There are tradeoffs, suggesting "shut down your website unless you provide access everywhere" is worse on all fronts for everyone.
Maybe, maybe not.
If block-heavy websites shut down entirely, we lose some content, but other content moves to block-minimal sites and the average user might be able to access more.
Also if there's no blocking crutch, and people get pushed into shutdown and are mad about it, they might fight harder for anti-spam technology and legal enforcement, which could improve the situation.
Is be seriously pissed off if I invested the time to build a shopping cart and got to the order screen just to be turned away. I hope that you have a clear message somewhere that you do not ship outside the US and Canada.
Yes it only allows US as the shipping address, and only US/Canada as billing address. The only reason we even allow Canada billing is because some of my relatives (Canadian) will order it and have it shipped to a parcel service on the US side of the border.
Things wouldn't have gone this way if browser vendors and the working groups were not so lagging on adopting better UX for controls and had more built-in ways of customizing the looks.
Take a look how long it took to be able to customize <select>.
A hamburger menu or an accordion with proper viewport scrolling should be a couple of lines of html css...
Yeah I could not agree more. I find myself wasting a lot of time building controls that really feel like they have probably been built ten thousand times before.
They have been suing and winning. Yet Cloudflare continues.
I'm not a fan of overzealous companies, like La Liga, cutting out massive portions of the internet in Spain during football matches, but Cloudflare isn't the good guy here either.
La Liga sued Cloudflare in Spanish court and won. Cloudflare now starts taking down content that directly violates La Ligas copyright, but mainly only in Spain. It looks like Cloudflare will happily still serve the exact same content outside of Spain.
In response to these court rulings, the got the US government involved and now there is talk of this being a digital trade barrier.
Europe always has a thing for their languages. They think many languages make them stronger while spending billions in system loss due to communication barriers. It is obvious they will try to do the same with LLMs and call it the next best thing since bread and butter.
I went to JCON EUROPE this year. The amount of "Europe this" "Europe that" "sovereign this, sovereign that" is mind boggling and just a waste of time and money. The regular people know this and thus left the conferences mid way. But somehow the people "in charge" really need to push this. Same thing here.
There's an obvious advantage to everyone speaking the same language - although perhaps real-time translation with LLMs and hardware like the Timekettle will reduce this problem. Personally, I wouldn't really care if that language were English or Mandarin Chinese tbh.
Training an entire LLM model for each language is going to be incredibly expensive and likely a waste of resources. Keep in mind that all the big LLMs can already speak these languages anyway - this effort is just to make a 'pure' Portuguese LLM.
Nobody is saying you have to swap your culture for English. You can have English as the mandatory language for tech and business across the EU, while still keeping your language and culture for your education, leisure, festivities, art, media, etc. This way everyone is happy. But countries like France would rather detonate its entire nuclear arsenal rather than accepting official use of English on its own soil.
As long as resources are spent across the EU to account for every language and bureaucracy, we'll keep falling behind internationally, and the only winners will be the bureaucrats, notaries, lawyers, consultants, translators, etc. which would be fine if this were preserving culture like you said in the beginning, but it isn't, it's just preserving friction, segmentation and bureaucracy.
We need another Concord moment. What's wild is that Concord was made via international cooperation, before the EU was even a thing. So whatever the EU is doing to improve things, it's either not good, not enough, or not working. I hope this improves but knowing how petty some EU states are about things being done their way, I doubt it.
Others said a lot already. But yes, go full on English for all official and business needs. Endure a few years of hardship and everyone will come out stronger. Europe can attract so much top talents over night just by this one single step and also save an insane amount of money/resources that can be directed elsewhere.
Why do you need to change climate control at all let alone when driving? Is it because the car can't maintain proper temperature? Response time is lagging? Or what?
Also, you can just use voice control. Works better than physical buttons.
You are absolutely right. See my other post before where I saw essentially the same thing. It is absurd how bad the German companies are; the only thing they know how to do great is the engine.
I never understand these people with their ac knobs... What are they doing that they need to change AC all the time during driving?
I set it to 21.5 with auto, and it is perfect for the whole car. Why do people need to constantly change ac?!!
Press the wiper button on Steering wheel to wipe, use left scroll button on steering wheel to make it fast/slow/off. No touch screen needed. Can also use voice command.
Press headlight button on s.wheel, tap the fog light icon on screen.
There's one thing I actually dislike. You can use voice to control all these stuff except foglight. It even understands foglight command, but doesn't do anything. Most likely a bug. I don't know how to report it.
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