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Assumed Audience : Anyone with any opinion about “AI,” especially LLM’s. Discuss on Hacker News . Epistemic Status : Satisfied. So OpenAI recently revealed info about its spider . That information included its bot name (GPTBot) and its user agent string. But even more importantly, they revealed the IP address blocks that they would use. So I blocked them all. I also blocked their spider with robots.txt and my server; the..
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Introduction The public internet is like a hurricane and your webserver is like sticking your head outside in the middle. This was what I was told by someone when I noticed that my fairly new server was getting hit by script kiddies . He was trying to assure me that everything was fine. Unfortunately, I had made a few mistakes when setting up the server, so I was vulnerable. He, and others, helped me fix the problems, and when I ..
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There has been at least one experience I had where performance mattered, and I recently ran into another one. I switched to Jekyll , a static site generator to streamline my website . And it worked pretty well. When writing a post, I had Jekyll running in debug mode, and it was fast enough. It took about three seconds to generate the site. Wait, what? Yes, three seconds . That is actually bad, but it was fast enough for writi..
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Update, 29 Nov 2019 : Added the section Removing JavaScript and edited the Performance section to reflect the new performance. Introduction This blog used to be hosted on a WordPress installation. I did it that way because, while I had basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP, and other website-building technologies, I couldn’t really be bothered to spend much time making my site better. About six months ago, an acquaintance pointed out ..
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