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RE: the ASNs Wow, thanks a lot, How do you produce these composite banlists? do you use a script or online tool? On my forum, i put the memberlist as restricted to guests in any way possible, having noticed bots scraping that. However, this doesn't stop someone from signing up and letting the...

After a month of calm, they're back at it. Seeing insane amounts of traffic from Shanghai263 and ASN 139341 I looked up ASN 139341 on https://hackertarget.com/as-ip-lookup/and removed ipv6 and sorted the list. Here it is in apache .htaccess format: Deny from 101.33.10.0/24 Deny from...

Yeah, i hate it too. I periodically turn it on and off based on when i'm getting the scraper attacks, which usually last a day. Monitoring of the server tells me when i need to flip the switch. I'm using the pro lite tier. I have been overloaded at work for a while and my replacement technology...

Agree with the above reply but here's my summary: I use fail2ban on my servers for a decade now.. it looks at http logs from apache.. then applies rules that i craft. ASN blocks, i ban these in my .htaccess. I use the WHOIS command in the terminal to identify these blocks and a php script that...

Somehow we're doing great with fail2ban + ASN blocks, guests around 3000 average and no big spikes. Don't know how long the peace will last. But things have been quiet for 1-2 months here!

Yeah i know a lot about open source models, been running them for over a year now, just not at this scale. GPT OSS 120b is a good model for programming, but is based on ChatGPT 4 era technology, so it is prone to hallucination. This means you really need to direct it. We run Step 3.5 Flash...

We just completed an integration of TipTap 3.0 into one of our software products. It's not something you get done in a day ( and also get right ) with AI. This was one of the hardest WYSIWYG integrations we've done. If i was to give these WYSIWYG editors a grade in terms of smoothness to use +...

Apple hardware: reasonably efficient gobs of ram ok speed ( m5 and up ) expensive little benefit in parallelizing multiple units Nvidia hardware: reasonably efficient but out of the box usually tuned to use 33% more power for 10-15% more perf ( if this is tuned down, it's very close to...

Personally.. i could care less about silicon valley. Their software quality going to crap lately and so much of the output is VC funded too, meaning it's guaranteed that they'll do a first one's cheap, last one's super expensive kind of pricing play. I got so tired of using their crap as an IT...

Nice to see the AI part working!

Our rule: ..and yes, we enforce it

I've seen 10,000's-100,000's of unique IP addresses at times, yeah, that wouldn't work for me. I'm not surprised that residential proxies walk through it!

Your word per token is off, a token can be as small as 1 character, but usually closer to 3 characters. a punctuation mark or space is usually a token too. We're still doing napkin math but 3x that figure But you may also be leaving out reasoning tokens, overhead of their system prompt, overhead...

To be clear: I think AI could do a lot of interesting things on a forum.. ..but the costs are nuts right now.. ..we really need the hardware to improve 2-3x in efficiency/cost. ( i say this as i sit next to a 50lbs AI box that can draw 900w from the wall and make the office into a sauna if a...