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I get llm-like traffic on domains with zero web content (never was, probably never will be any).

Just merely existing will get you scanned these days.


If you have an SSL certificate so such a domain can serve HTTPS traffic if needed, which it wouldn't surprise me if some parking services generate for you these days via an ACME provider, then your domain will be in the certificate transparency logs so can be found that way.

One possible way around this is to use a wildcard and not serve anything on the base domain. Unless the right subdomain is listed somewhere, they'll not get any scans. Maybe useful for projects that you have online for just yourself and a small closed circle.


How big are we talking? I download ISOs all the time...

For what its worth, some databases just run like trash. I've put a database on nvme raid and still had some queries take 5 seconds.

Either you aren’t using indexes or your queries must be doing a lot of JOINS

TA's ai was pretty dumb, actually... on most maps with unpassable water, they'll happily crank out kbots without building any ships or planes, until it hits the unit limit.

As a kid I loved waiting the computer to do this and send that "nuclear" missile that blew pretty much everything

Yup. Being able to API like open broodwar creates a way to make the game an arena for AIs on a ladder. Then there’s some more interesting stuff that can go on.

I love the idea of having some reinforcement learning approach that keeps generating new AI versions that play each other indefinitely.


IRC is dead to me, you can thank Andrew Lee (of Freenode infamy) for that one.

Isn't exactly the beauty of IRC that one person doing something to one node in the network isn't affecting the rest at all?

I can't be bothered to sign up for both libera and oftc. When everything was on freenode, you didn't have to jump through any hoops just to ask a question.

You don't need to "sign up". You just open your client, connect to the server and ask your question.

Is it really that hard to register a nick on two (or 3 or 5) networks one time in just a few minutes and then set them to autoconnect?

all of the Freenode staff just rebranded as Libera Chat, bought a new domain and continued on as usual.

Your loss.

Please, no more... don't we already have enough junk tlds?

No because domain squatters take 99% of the good ones.

Although it seems better for .ai where the price has been increased so that you have to pay $180 for the first 2 years. There are still a lot of squatters but not as many as the cheap TLDs, and $180 is still within range for a startup or hobbyist so I hope more TLDs do this.


No because ICANN needs money again.

These events have nothing to do with domains. They are funding rounds for the corrupt organisation known as ICANN.


Was surprised not to see whales on the list

Individual whales are large, but there aren’t that many individuals.

Giant squid may be a bigger part of biomass than people think. I saw some estimates on sperm whale catches of giant squid and they may be eating thousands. There are far more of them than you might think, and they have a 3D living space. Sperm whale may be designed to hunt them.

Besides sperm whales, the other toothed whale species that are bigger than orcas (i.e. beaked whales) are also specialized in eating squid caught at great depths under water, though they eat smaller species than those preferred by sperm whales.

The ancestors of sperm whales were actually more like super sized orcas, which must have eaten vertebrates, either big fish or big marine mammals, but at some point in time some of them specialized into eating squid at great depths and only these survived until now, presumably because at some point there remained less available great vertebrate prey to sustain bigger predators than orcas and white sharks, so the bigger predators specialized in vertebrate prey disappeared both among whales and among sharks.


We had and still have campaigns to protect them from extinction

I wonder if populations have fully recovered from the whale-oil era.


Fish species in general have been badly affected by commercial fishing:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/33/



They tout vghf as a museum, but you're really funding Frank's private collection.

no idea who Frank is (neither do I care) but these files have been readily available for years (and still are), all they're doing is collecting them at a central place and make them searchable (and vievable at a decent speed, compared to IA).

So yeah, I'm fine with people funding that


Theoretically speaking, a person could get themselves blocked, request an unblocking, and keep on spamming, hoping they won't get blocked again.

right now, they can apparently just spend $108/year and keep on spamming.

This is what capitalist “regulation” looks like in practice

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