We've got about a dozen of them now. Exactly as advertised, no problems other than a slightly longer lead time to begin with. Just laptops that can be upgraded.
digdilem
joined 2 years ago
In my experience, the AI bots are absolutely not honoring robots.txt - and there are literally hundreds of unique ones. Everyone and their dog has unleashed AI/LLM harvesters over the past year without much thought to the impact to low bandwidth sites.
Many of them aren't even identifying themselves as AI bots, but faking human user-agents.
robots.txt does not work. I don't think it ever has - it's an honour system with no penalty for ignoring it.
I have a few low traffic sites hosted at home, and when a crawler takes an interest they can totally flood my connection. I'm using cloudflare and being incredibly aggressive with my filtering but so many bots are ignoring robots.txt as well as lying about who they are with humanesque UAs that it's having a real impact on my ability to provide the sites for humans.
Over the past year it's got around ten times worse. I woke up this morning to find my connection at a crawl and on checking the logs, AmazonBot has been hitting one site 12000 times an hour, and that's one of the more well-behaved bots. But there's thousands and thousands of them.
Plenty of people don't have a family to transfer a business to, or if they do, that family don't want to be doing the same job their parents did.
Like every generation that's retired, ever?
If cookie prompts annoy you (and why wouldn't they? Complicated and time wasting prompts caused by terrible and compromised legislation that's led to far more intrusion instead of enforcing use of browser settings) and you don't care about cookies, then the browser extension "I don't care about cookies" suppresses the vast majority.
Can he do it in the UK too please?
Or at least, those influencing in favour of Trump and general chaos.
Working in IT doesn't mean you know everything about what's on the internet.
(Source: I also work in IT. A toddler with a tablet knows more about a lot of things online than I do)
No shit. The amount of far-right propaganda, hate and disinformation it's pushing is so much that it's pretty much over the line as an extremist site now, and I expect it to start getting flagged as that with a lot more organisations.
Musk wants to set the world on fire and X is his box of matches.
Looks like the server's having a day off
I sympathise with your Dad - everyone's had updates go bad, and it's easy to assume the "don't fix what ain't broke" mantra. But to do so is being willfully ignorant of basic computer security. And to be fair, Debian-stable is one of the least troublesome things to just let automatically update.
Debian and Ubuntu have the unattended-upgrades package which is designed to take a lot of the sting out of automatic updating. I'd recommend setting that up and you won't have to touch it again.
There's also the crontab way - "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" at frequencies that suit you. (A check for reboot afterwards is a good idea).