With the advent of AI bots trying to flood into Lemmy communities, I don't really see this as a viable option on the long run.

Yeah it's a steal right now. They lose around 50$ in raw token cost if you max out the use.

Very much not sustainable business model either just like copilot wasn't.

Prediction: This change comes to life, people make an uproar about this. Then they forget this in a few days and continue using reddit.

This same old keeps happening with reddit, Twitter/X, etc.

Hopefully we do receive some refugees to Lemmy!

I wish I knew not to trust closed source self-hosted applications, such as Plex. Would have saved a lot of time and money.

It's supposed to be a dot (.) character. The project's name is n.eko.

Teclis - Includes search results from Marginalia, free to use at the moment. This search index has been in the past closed down due to abuse.

Kagi, whose creation Teclis is, is a paid search engine (metasearch engine to be more precise) also incorporates these search results in their normal searches. I warmly recommend giving Kagi a try, it's great, I've been enjoying it a lot.

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Other options I can recommend; You could always try to host your own search engine if you have list of small-web sites in mind or don't mind spending some effort collecting such list. I personally host Yacy [github link] (and Searxng to interface with yacy and several other self-hosted indexes/search engines such as kiwix wiki's.). Indexing and crawling your own search results surprisingly is not resource heavy at all, and can be run on your personal machine in the background.

Yes, Anubis uses proof of work, like some cryptocurrencies do as well, to slow down/mitigate mass scale crawling by making them do expensive computation.

https://lemmy.world/post/27101209 has a great article attached to it about this.

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Edit: Just to be clear, this doesn't mine any cryptos, just uses same idea for slowing down the requests.

Plex is a great example here. I've been Hetzner customer for many many years, and bought a lifetime license to Plex. Only to receive few months later a notification from Plex that I am no longer allowed to self-host Plex for myself(and only myself) at Hetzner and that they will block all access to my self-hosted Plex instance. I tried to ask for leniency or a refund, but that was wasted effort as well.

In short, I was caught on a crossfire when for-profit company tried to please hollywood by attempting to reduce piracy, so they could get new VC funding.

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I am now a happy Jellyfin user and warmly recommend all Plex users to try it, the Jellyfin community is awesome!

(Use your favourite search engine to look up "Hetzner Plex ban" for more details)

They last essentially forever if maintained even just a little bit and is a good quality leather. I've been in cars from the 70's with the original leather seats in amazing condition.

I don't personally care that much what the material is in my car, but I've never had good experiences with fake leather, I'd rather honestly have any other fabric. And those other fabrics are very common already in cars!

You have a point here.

But when you consider the current worlds web traffic, this isn't actually the case today. For example Gnome project who was forced to start using this on their gitlab, 97% of their traffic could not complete this PoW calculation.

IE - they require only a fraction of computational cost to serve their gitlab, which saves a lot of resources, coal, and most importantly, time of hundreds of real humans.

(Source for numbers)

Hopefully in the future we can move back to proper netiquette and just plain old robots.txt file!

If you remember the project I would be interested to see it!

But I've seen some AI poisoning sink holes before too, a novel concept as well. I have not heard of real world experiences of them yet.

Squid games reference. (or from one of the knockoff's)

"See you next year at the same time?" -Hacker.

I would very much recommend steering away from these lifetime deals. It's not a sustainable business model and will lead to unhappy times very fast.

The math doesn't math.

Surprisingly, it's very doable, requires basic technical knowledge and relatively minimal computing resources (runs in the background on your computer).

https://yacy.net/ Github

I have tampermonkey script that sends yacy to crawl any websites that I visit, and it's keeping up relatively good index for personal use of the visited websites. Combine yacy with ~300gb of Kiwix databases, add searxng as a frontend and you have pretty strong self hosted search engine.

Of course you need to supplement your searches from other search engines, as yacy does not crawl the whole web, just what you tell it to.

I encourage anyone who's even slightly interested on this stuff to try Yacy, it's ancient piece of software, but it still works very well and is not an abandoned project yet!

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I personally use Yacy mostly on private mode, but it does have the distributed network there as well.

They're working on no-js support too, but this just had to be put out without it due to the amount of AI crawler bots causing denial of service to normal users.

1. Doesn't run against Firefox only, it runs against whatever you configure it to. And also, from personal experience, I can tell you that majority of the AI crawlers have keyword "Mozilla" in the user agent.

2. Yes, this isn't cloudflare, but I'm pretty sure that's on the Todo list. If not, make an issue to the project please.

3. The computational requirements on the server side are a less than a fraction of the cost what the bots have to spend, literally. A non-issue. This tool is to combat the denial of service that these bots cause by accessing high cost services, such as git blame on gitlab. My phone can do 100k sha256 sums per second (with single thread), you can safely assume any server to outperform this arm chip, so you'd need so much resources to cause denial of service that you might as well overload the server with traffic instead of one sha256 calculation.

And this isn't really comparable to Tor. This is a self hostable service to sit between your web server/cdn and service that is being attacked by mass crawling.

Edit: If you don't like the projects stickers, fork it and remove them. This is open source project.

And Xe who made this project is quite talented programmer. More than likely that you have used some of Xe's services/sites/projects before as well.

Peertube supports livestreams with multi ABR live transcoding, and ended lives can be saved as VODs on the platform.

It's also part of the fediverse. :)

There's a third party between the payment system (website, point of sales systems, card terminals, etc) and the card's provider who also has access to the transaction data in the latter example. These payment systems don't interact with visa/mc/whatever directly.

Yes, correct.

I apologize if someone misunderstood my reply, Plex was the bad actor here.