I believe the bot belongs to Huawei, who I understand to be building a new search engine to compete with/replace Google in China, where Google is banned. As part of that, I assume they are trying to get everything about every website at speed, and turned that deluge onto ILP last week. Sadly, ILP will probably not be indexed in that search engine as a result.
The number of requests they were making doesnāt seem reasonable: I set up the firewall rule on Friday and on Saturday it blocked 130k requests from the same bot, which is more than one per second, all day every day (theyāve mostly stopped now that they just get a 503 error). The fact that the bot was named in the user agent string and easily identifiable by a firewall rule suggests they werenāt trying to do anything too nefarious, though it did seem to be ignoring the robots.txt file (which tells good bots where they can and canāt go; intended for reducing load and not adding junk to search indices rather than security). It also changed IPs for every request, so the normal IP-based rules to werenāt catching it, and even Cloudflare must have considered it benign because they didnāt register anything amiss.
But yeah, it fucked us up something bad for a while. Sorry if it caused you lost posts or other frustrations, it definitely caused me some frustration ā enough that I actually did something about it.
I didnāt know that Tik Tok was Chinese, until I saw this video on Gram last weekā¦ now it all makes sense. It has been said that Google, et others, did the same without the Userās permission, but yet thatās ok?
TikTok, known for its quirky 15-second videos, has been illegally and secretly harvesting vast amounts of personally identifiable user data and sending it to China, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in California federal court last week.
The lawsuit also accuses the company and its Chinese parent company ByteDance of taking user content such as draft videos without their consent and having āambiguousā privacy policies. It raises concerns that data gathered by TikTok could be used to identify, profile and track users in the US. The company is benefiting from this alleged activity because it uses this data to sell targeted ads, the lawsuit alleges.
āTikTokās lighthearted fun comes at a heavy cost,ā according to the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday.
Hmm, is this for real? And, if so, is it about anything in particular? Or, instead, as will come upon most of us here from time time, has the whole feckin experience become just unbearable?
Admittedly, this is one of the advantages I have here in being āfractured and fragmentedā. I am only able to take the points made by others here in regard to the points that I make so seriously. And, in part, because I am only able to take the points that I make myself so seriously.
I think mostly about what I do āhere and nowā in regard to the one thing that interest me above all else āphilosophicallyā: how ought one to live given the extent to which how one does choose to live is able to be intertwined with the fate of āIā on the other side.
On the other hand, Iām still able to recognize how both moral objectivists and moral nihilists out in the āreal worldā can and do bring into existence very, very real pain and suffering endured by millions around the globe.
All I can do then is to suggest that āmoderation, negotiation and compromiseā may well be the ābest of all possible worldsā in regard to confronting conflicting goods out in a world embedded in the brute facticity of political economy.
Iām not in denialā¦ youāre suggestions and I, just simply donāt mixā¦ like oil on water, or a really bad DJ. I think Iāll put that in my Sigā¦ I like it.
Condition or notā¦ posting in bad faith and spite, by always using conjecture, is simply a (dull and boring) fallacious argument, that Someone likes to use, to try to gain ground and traction by that method. Others hereā¦ not so much.
Lol, thatās funny Peter, but itās not my style.
I did indeed KPā¦ and youāre nawty, in agreeing for me to divulge all, but while still here.
That time whenā¦ oh no, I canāt possibly divulgeā¦
I simply had a moment, from one or two threads, is allā¦ bots, seeming more preferable to engage with, at that pointā¦ hence my post, in this thread.
To paraphrase myself, āYouāll need a context, of course.ā
That way you can note more specifically when, as the exchange unfolds, posters are acting in bad faithā¦or using fallacious arguments. And the posters can then defend themselves in turn.
And, over and again, all posters will refer back to that particular set of circumstances in order to illustrate and to bolster any accusations that they make.
Iāll start the thread if youād like. In the philosophy forum of course.
I take issue, more with sock-puppets, than with anything elseā¦ thatās posting in bad faith, to me.
ā¦only as long as you donāt use the phrase āā¦interactions that revolve around conflicting goods in which we connect the dots between morality here and now and immortality there and thenā, or any variation or derivative there-ofā¦ otherwise, sure.
Okay, letās note a set of circumstances in which you expand on this. For me, I couldnāt care less about who is posting, sock-puppet or not. Iām only interested in the extent to which, in regard to moral and political values, anyone posting in whatever configuration brings their philosophical knowledge to bear on the components of human interactions that seem most important to me: identity, conflicting goods, political economy.
Let the sock-puppet assume an identity here āfor purposes of deception.ā He or she either addresses the points I raise or they donāt. Itās not deceptive personalities I care about but figuring out a way to yank myself up out of the hole that my own āfractured and fragmentedā self has dug for me. If deception helps, thatās fine with me.
Nope, no can do. My entire moral and political philosophy revolves around attempts to explain to others what āIā mean by thatā¦given our interaction with others on this side of the grave as that is relevant to what we believe our fate to be on the other side of it.
So, if you are still interested, I will start a new thread in the philosophy forum in which we discuss bad faith given the issues that most concern you and most concern me. Or, sure, start it yourself.