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mattlon Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?

But also don’t give up your principles and use AI stuff if you’re against it.

Hiring people who haven’t used it will be a marketable skill too

mattlon Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?

Yeah, you should start looking for a new role immediately.

mattlon Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

I really doubt any legit user is using a weird user agent and an IP address in the same AS as an AI slop crawler

mattlon Doom Didn't Kill the Amiga (2024)

Yeah, virtually everyone I knew circa 1990 had a home computer. Mostly Spectrum and CPC. A few years later it was a few Amiga 500 too. The only “console” I had seen was the Atari VCS or a dedicated Pong machine. A few people got Game Boys a little later circa 1992. A single friend who had a Master System and one kid with divorced parents who got a SNES as a result.

It was in this environment that I would discover programming and the internet.

mattlon Couchers is officially out of beta

No United Kingdom?

mattlon Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

Thanks for the link. I’ll have a look.

I’m glad there’s no cryptocurrency involved (was never a concern) but I worry about the optics of something so closely associated.

(I appreciate your commenting on this. I know the project recently blew up in popularity. Keep up the great work)

mattlon Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

Thank you. This doesn't have everything I'm looking for, but apparently it has been packaged in Debian at least. I don't know why the website doesn't mention this.

mattlon Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

Nobody is talking about a vibe coded app. I want to block AI scrapers entirely.

mattlon Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

The proof of work stuff feels so cryptocurrency adjacent that I've been looking at other tools for my own thing, but I've seen Anubis on other websites and it seems to do a good job.

mattlon Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

Yeah, this is just sad to hear.

mattlon Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

I can't see how it can be fair use. Just follow the license, it's not that difficult. Microsoft will forever be a pariah if they get away with this.

I'm putting my new code somewhere private anyway.

mattlon Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

If you find a solution that’s not auth please let me know.

mattlon Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

Open source software typically has a license. People not following the license isn’t tolerated.

This is what AI scrapers are doing. They’re taking your code, your artwork and your writing without any consideration for the license.

mattlon Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

We need a reasonable alternative to some of what Cloudflare does that can be easily installed as a package on Linux distributions without any of the following to install it.

* curl | bash

* Docker

* Anything that smacks of cryptocurrency or other scams

Just a standard repo for Debian and RHEL derived distros. Fully open source so everyone can use it. (apt/dnf install no-bad-actors)

Until that exists, using Cloudflare is inevitable.

It needs to be able to at least:

* provide some basic security (something to check for sql injection, etc)

* rate limiting

* User agent blocking

* IP address and ASN blocking

Make it easy to set up with sensible defaults and a way to subscribe to blocklists.

mattlon Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

bunny.net has some options

mattlon I Scanned all of GitHub's "Oops Commits" for Leaked Secrets worth $25k in B

> $25k in bug bounties.

mattlon Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)

But you’re not getting anything. You’re just surfing to the Amaya website.

mattlon They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder

Yeah, any VCR purchased in the early 90s was still doing just fine when the late 90s and DVD players rolled around.

But I’ve never heard of a “VHS player” —- always a VCR or a VTP for a playback only unit as uncommon as they were.

mattlon Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore

I’m sure multiple video parts is supposed to raise hype but it has the opposite effect on me.

mattlon Touching the back wall of the Apple store

Most likely hired by a liquor brand similar to shot girls/guys.

mattlon Use Plaintext Email (2019)

No username, password, IMAP/POP server?

sr.ht is the software forge this plain text email website is set up to promote.

mattlon Use Plaintext Email (2019)

I don't really understand how people are checking their email without configuring an email client, but then I realized I don't care and once again I should just never interact with anything from sr.ht

mattlon Use Plaintext Email (2019)

Your suggestion was that Mac users who want a a GUI should use homebrew.

If that’s not gatekeeping I don’t know what to tell you.

mattlon Use Plaintext Email (2019)

It must be difficult for you to appreciate the idea of not gatekeeping email. If you’re trying to get people to use plain text email in 2025, Thunderbird is the only obvious choice for a GUI client.

It runs everywhere and can be installed by anyone.

Why do want to make it harder for people?

mattlon Use Plaintext Email (2019)

Shouldn't need Homebrew to install a GUI email client.

Really shouldn't need to explain that, IMO.

mattlon Use Plaintext Email (2019)

* https://www.claws-mail.org/downloads.php

* https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/download.html

Compare those to https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/all

I can't find a current download for modern macOS on either of the first two

mattlon Use Plaintext Email (2019)

What do you use? Not saying for a moment that anyone needs to use Facebook, but I'm curious if you use anything else...