@glyph Did you quote post something?

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@nickzoic the behavior of LLM scrapers is beyond deranged. I have no idea why they act the way they do. It's deeply counterproductive and practically designed to cause a catastrophic, cascading failure of all the infrastructure they rely on to exist

[jonathankoren@sfba.social]

@nickzoic @glyph common crawl isn’t updated quickly, and they want the newest stuff. Still, their behavior is just absolutely asinine. Most pages don’t update.

I heard this week that Wikipedia was complaining about scrapers, and I was like, “You stupid shits! Just download the database! They publish it for that exact reason!”

[matt@toot.cafe]

@glyph Have you had to implement any anti-scraper measures on your own site yet?

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@matt No. I don't handle that much traffic and the fact that it's 99% static means that it pretty much never gets overloaded. if I start adding more dynamic content I might have to revisit that

[kuniti_shino@pounced-on.me]

@glyph i wish vulpine labs was able to raise that much

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@glyph don't give corporate america ideas D:

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@aeva my message to CEOs about this particular piece of advice is "do it. I fucking dare you"

[jay@oldos.me]

@glyph @aeva The amount of problems in our world caused by expenses that are paid by everyone else in the world is staggering -- and all because you can't put out an invoice for them. Climate change being the gold star example but not the only example.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@glyph I'm sure it'll get reverse engineered pretty quickly if it hasn't been already. There's lots of people out there who read disassembled shaders for a living.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@aeva I'm sure there will be attempts but I don't think the kind of team that has the leisure for shader RE'ing are also going to use that capacity to meticulously create a pixel-accurate simulacrum

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@glyph there's some valiant efforts to reverse it other ways https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=liquid+glass I would not under estimate the human spirit's ability to fuss over tiny details.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@aeva I do not know any shader languages and I'm painfully bad at math but I have played around with this stuff enough at this point that I can, like, *smell* SDFs now

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@aeva @glyph Shaders are so cool. They hurt my brain, but they are so cool.

[mks_h@mstdn.social]

@glyph it is aactshuallyy just slightly more than a median yearly salary for a Ukrainian Middle Python or C developer. I assume India ain't any more expensive either. But yeah, only about half a year if you mean a Senior dev. Btw, kinda interesting that Python pays more than C.

[jacob@social.jacobian.org]

@glyph This reminds me of a funny story:

At a previous job, all reimbursement requests needed to be approved by both the manager and finance. But someone fucked up the ruleset, and the “office supplies” category had no required approval, and would thus be auto-approved.

Look, that keg of beer for the office party is a Supply for the Office, right?

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@glyph they're a lot of fun

[adrake@sfba.social]

@glyph @aeva I assume Flutter already has folks working on it, like they did for the last iOS UI.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@mks_h I chose my terms carefully: I did not say “salary” because I am speaking to the people spending the money here, not those receiving it. “fully loaded annual cost” includes benefits, taxes, equipment overhead etc. it costs employers a lot more to hire someone than that person gets in cash :-)

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@jacob this is as hilarious as it is infuriating

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@jacob if ICs are allowed to book meetings with a dozen people without prior VP approval then they should be able to buy beer or food or a copy of Kapeli Dash or whatever without running it by anyone