this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
67 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

38412 readers
372 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The company says the content served to bots is deliberately irrelevant to the website being crawled, but it is carefully sourced or generated using real scientific facts—such as neutral information about biology, physics, or mathematics—to avoid spreading misinformation (whether this approach effectively prevents misinformation, however, remains unproven).

You cowards. Make it all Hitler fan stuff and wild Elon Musk porno slash fiction. Make it a bunch of source code examples with malicious bugs. Make it instructions for how to make nuclear weapons. They want to ignore the blocking directives and lie about their user agent? Dude, fuck ‘em up. Today’s society has made people way too nice.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I disagree with your conclusion. The solution to the societal issues we face is not more personal animosity.

Do we need to fuck up corporations? Well, that's already happening via widespread boycotts. But there's no path from there to "people are being too nice."

Companies like this need to be criminally charged, but we know that's not going to happen

Which boycott? Random Joe over there is handing over his SSN to ChatGPT no problem

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But it’s not personal. The entity you are interacting with has explicitly chosen to attack your systems for their own benefit, causing significant damage while disguising its intent and evading the systems which are supposed to protect your stuff from harm.

I’m not saying you need to go throw eggs at the developers’ houses. I’m saying that once an entity is actively harming you, it becomes okay to harm it back to motivate it to stop.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We don't disagree here. I'm just viewing it through the lens of climate and regime change, wherein it appears we're going to move away from renewables.

Do it off geothermal all day, so far as I'm concerned. Once you're burning hydrocarbons, the benefits become far less clear.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the whole aspect of spending AI with all its associated costs to defeat the AI is a whole unpleasant aspect of it, for sure.