> Or more likely: What if you’ve heard somebody say they’ve been blocked from my sites? If you’ve been blocked, you can’t read this, obviously.
> Here’s what you can tell them:
> “I’m sorry this is happening to you. Your ISP is probably renting out bandwidth and computing power to web scrapers with distributed IP addresses so I have no other option but block all their networks. A regular ban lasts for 1h. Repeated offenders are banned for a week. If the web scraping continues, so does the banning. You are probably an innocent victim of this arms race. If you have a static IP address, contact me and I can add you to an allow list.”
> For a longer explanation, see 2025-07-19 The current setup defending my sites.
Andrew has been writing a ton of interesting blog posts related to package management (https://nesbitt.io/posts/). He's had some great ideas, like testing package managers similar to database Jepsen testing.
Not to take credit away from Andrew for his ideas and writing, because at least he came up with the idea and wrote about it, but I don't understand how that idea of Jepsen style testing of package managers is a novel idea. Like... what testing would you want to do if you were building a package manager?
I think much of the rot in FAANG is more organizational than about LLMs. They got a lot bigger, headcount-wise, in 2020-2023.
Ultimately I doubt LLMs have much of an impact on code quality either way compared to the increased coordination costs, increased politics, and the increase of new commercial objectives (generating ads and services revenue in new places). None of those things are good for product quality.
That also probably means that LLMs aren't going to make this better, if the problem is organizational and commercial in the first place.
> you try to tell your friend “hey I sent weddingpictures.zip to your email” and your friend clicks the resulting link, thereby being redirected to a trick site that steals your SSN.
Information theft seems possible, SSN less so, but I was more concerned about downloads.
Clicking on an auto-linkified weddingpictures.zip could autodownload a zip file containing malware. You may trust your friend but the zip file is not from them.
I think the lack of auto-linkification has a lot to due with why we aren't seeing real phishing attacks using the ZIP TLD. So I feel like we warned, the industry reacted by not autolinkifying, and disaster was averted.
Check the privacy policy to see how they handle different types of data. Something you consider personal and private may not actually be handled as you expect.
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