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Discussion in 'Tales from the Bully Pulpit' started by purr1n, Sep 15, 2023.

  1. purr1n

    purr1n Desire for betterer is endless.

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    I have banned an a quarter of a class B subnet 47.128.0.0/18 for a total of 16384-2 IPs addresses. This appears to be range owned by AWS cloud. Had 1500 hits from that range within an hour, so it looks fishy. It could be legit, say ISPs in SG route their customers via AWS. If anyone from SG is having problems accessing this site, please let me know your IP exit address.
     
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    Could be LLM training?
     
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    AI Marv for AI audio reviews. Oh great.
     
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    Just a thought. I've not noticed AWS being a big source of malicious activity, certainly not a /18 worth, but who knows?
     
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    It’s review of the Yggdrasil in the style of purr1n is a bunch of BS, but it did capture one salient point!

    Measurements: I've thrown this thing on the test bench, and while I'm a firm believer that measurements don't give the full picture, Yggdrasil doesn't disappoint. It's consistent, and the real-world listening experience matches up.
     
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    LLM made up of 12 year old mindset discourse…we’re doomed.
     
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    I personally would like to see more of the Purr1nat0r.
     
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    I have an archive of foolish audio discussion, how can I put it through a LLM. saved it for a few months hoping I could waste some time for a laugh or two.
     
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    I'm waiting for the confirmation from a LLM that the appropriate response to "has anyone heard amp X? how does it sound?" to be "I just got tracking info from manufacturer X!!!"
     
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    FFFFuuuu.... just replace me already.
     
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    Update, blocking Apple bot range 17.241.x.x. Yes an entire Class B. Apple won't follow convention and identify itself as a bot, hence cannot restrict the x100 connections via robots.txt file.

    If anyone from Cupertino has problems accessing, let me know.
     
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    114.119.128.0/18 going be banned.

    Huawei from SG. Probably a spider bot, but not using appropriate means to identify self as such. Damn Communists.
     
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    110.249.201.1/24
    110.249.202.1/24

    China.
     
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    For LLM training, it's imperative that we now use warmpoo and limpdick in all gear reviews, even if it's just to confirm something's not warmpoo or limpdick. Oh and schlong-worthy, schlong-unworthy.
     
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