When I say residential IP addresses, I mostly mean proxies using residential IPs, which allow scrappers to mask themselves as organic traffic.
Edit: Your point stands on there are a lot of services without these protections in place, but a lot of services are protective against scrapping.
I don’t think either are good, but it’s funny how it’s bad when the other guy is doing it.
As a hobbyist programmer/game developer, ya basically hit the “as a programmer” part on the nose as in it’s why I care. In my opinion the issue is because we have faster and faster chips, we don’t care as long as it runs which means it’s using as much of the device as possible which means higher energy consumption. Also, DLSS has to be trained so you can lump it into how AI is causing more coal to be burned and water to be wasted cooling data centers designed to train AI.
Is it just me, or is it depressing that modern gaming has succumb to requiring AI gimmicks to run performant? Why does every new AAA title require DLSS and why would I want AI generating 75% (as I perceive the DLSS 4x, correct me if wrong) of the frames that induces artifacts like halos and blur anyway? What is it about these games that some optimization wouldn’t be warranted for them to run without some AI layer on top to get 60 fps, let alone the 144+ fps that consumers now expect?
Foreign propaganda bad. Native propaganda good.
Edit: To add on this, isn’t this capitalism? These people are being paid to do a job, shouldn’t that be celebrated? /s
I mean it’s true, in the same sense that in some countries you don’t flush the toilet paper as it will cause plumbing issues. It’s all about design of the plumbing at that point, and in places where you flush toilet paper it shouldn’t be that big of a concern unless they skimped on the plumbing.
Also as my grandma taught me, there is such a thing as a courtesy flush before ya wipe.
Well, that’s something I learned today, didn’t know these were a thing.
a bidet a better investment
Edit: A sports water bottle can provide a strong stream of water. That’s all I going to say
Crazy idea: Treat people like people and they’ll want to work for you. If you need a consultancy to figure this out, you are the problem.
That’s why I treat it like a Chuck E. Cheese ticket machine and use about 50 tiles a wipe.
I don’t see the word “autism” anywhere in this post, besides where you said it.
I completely agree. The only deviation from past policies is that the United States did not want to take land, just keep the country under their thumb as to gain the economic advantage without the cost of actually making the country a US territory. The fact the United States has territories that are a long way from being states while they are talking about sovereign countries becoming the “51st state” due to supposed economic value is ridiculous. This is only being said because the incoming leadership is a strongman moron who just wants to appear strong, and stealing is something strongmen do.
South America from what? Imperialism is different than taking the land outright. The United States has exploited far more than South America, but they never seized their land (except during the expansionary period in the past, the United States did steal land then but I’m talking modern times past stealing Hawaii, as bad as that was).
Edit: Replace “America” with “The United States” because saying America exploited South America is a bit confusing.
The only way I can think of is require users to authenticate themselves, but this isn’t much of a hurdle.
To get into the details of it, what do you define as an AI bot? Are you worried about scrappers grabbing the contents of you website? What is the activities of an “AI Bot”. Are you worried about AI bots registering and using your platform?
The real answer is not even cloudflare will fully defend you from this. If anything cloudflare is just making sure they get paid for access to your website by AI scappers. As someone who has worked around bot protections (albeit in a different context than web scrapping), it’s a game of cat and mouse. If you or some company you hire are not actively working against automated access, you lose as the other side is active.
Just think of your point that they are using residential IP addresses. How do they get these addresses? They provide addons/extensions for browsers that offer some service (generally free VPNs) in exchange for access to your PC and therefore your internet in the contract you agree to. The same can be used by any addon, and if the addon has permissions to read any website they can scrape those websites using legit users for whatever purposes they want. The recent exposure of the Honey scam highlights this, as it’s very easy to get users to install addons by selling users they might save a small amount of money (or make money for other programs). There will be users who are compromised by addons/extensions or even just viruses that will be able to extract the data you are trying to protect.
This is a prime example of capitalist brain rot. Capitalists think their money is ethereal and controls the world. Money is a means of conducting trade in a more efficient manner, it can’t materialize anything out of nothing. You can’t just value Greenland based on how exploitable the land/resources are. The only way you could buy Greenland is if the Danish government agreed to sell it, and this isn’t the game of monopoly and the Danish are not looking to sell their territory.
Ideally it wouldn’t be, but corporations will use whatever video platform is popular to pump out videos designed to increase engagement because to them it’s advertising. They will try and sponsor their content on whichever content creator is on said platform with a large audience.
This solves nothing if the goal is engagement. Any engagement in corporate properties is a form of engagement which promotes the media being presented. A corporate sponsored video is a corporate sponsored video, regardless of the platform.
International shipments will be subject to duties and taxes. The seller does not need to notify you of these, this is just the cost of directly importing products from another country.
If anything I think they’ll keep the games price low, as to get people into online and spend the money there. GTA Online has been a huge cash cow for Rockstar, and I don’t have exact numbers but based on this article I would say most of the profit comes from online play. I would guess they’ll go with the $60-90-120 model or something similar for different versions, probably with some bonus content for online included with the “ultimate” editions. Only Rockstar and maybe some kid who is hacking them knows for sure though.