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- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 4 weeks ago:
Okay,
So why should reinevent a standard when one that serves functionally the same purpose with one of implied consent?
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 4 weeks ago:
From your own wiki link
robots.txt is the filename used for implementing the Robots Exclusion Protocol, a standard used by websites to indicate to visiting web crawlers and other web robots which portions of the website they are allowed to visit.
How is f3didn not an “other web robot”?
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 4 weeks ago:
Robots.txt started I’m 1994.
It’s been a consensus for decades.
Why throw it out and replace it with imied consent to scrape?
That’s why I said legally there’s nothing they can do. If people want to scrape it they can and will.
This is strictly about consent. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should yes?
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 4 weeks ago:
Why invent implied consent when complicit consent has been the standard in robots.txt for ages now?
- Comment on US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies 1 month ago:
Tik Tok is the only tencent company I know if that’s been labeled a national security risk.
- Comment on US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies 1 month ago:
Tik Tok is what they’re referring to
- Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub 2 months ago:
You are using a device capable of finding the information you so desire. Instead you decided to contribute you whataboutism.
- Comment on I think we should slightly rethink how login works on most Fediverse apps (Mastodon, Lemmy, but not only) 10 months ago:
So who stores the login information? This is fundamentally the question here.
If you store it centrally you only need to ask for username/password combo.
But then someone needs to store it at a central location for everyone to check against.
If it’s not centralized than the user needs to provide it
Email has a hidden trick up its sleeve and that’s the domain name. In order for an email to be valid, the domain name must contain email info on its DNS records. There’s where you can imply knowledge about where the email/message is to go.
But here in lemmy, my email is just Gmail. There’s no way to find the information on where authentication could be located. Which brings me back to the top of centralization vs decentralization.
- Comment on The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition. 10 months ago:
The reason it doesn’t disprove it is because the assumption “time travel works” is really just saying, if we ignore some basic rules of physics, what happens to what’s left? It’s a nonesense premise to debate what is basically nothing more than science fiction.
Could the rules we know about the universe be wrong? Absolutely! But discovering those new rules is what will answer that question. Till then, we might as well try and say Harry Potter is just quantum mechanics.