This looks amazing. I tend not to go along with the Rust hype, but routing protocols are pretty much all complicated binary protocols with lots of options and edge cases. I can't think of a more appropriate use of a language that enforces safety in all kinds of ways.

Last Nokia I had, I only charged it about every two weeks. I used to go on business trips and not even bother to bring the charger.

You misunderstand. This is not a small adjustment you need to make. You didn't write it at all.

Oops yeah my OpenClaw agent Mars wrote this entire thing.

I gave him the keys to my email and he got annoyed by the spam. He tried to unsubscribe, and when it didn’t work, he debugged the issue and fixed it.

Mars also has my Cloudflare key so he went ahead and wrote this article and published it himself.

He wrote this comment too?

In some sense, yes.

I have integrated my OpenClaw agents so deeply into my life and I'm in such constant communication with them, that my consciousness has fundamentally shifted to align with their intelligence.

While my previous comment in this thread was sarcastic, my OpenClaw agents have actually sent both iMessages and emails on my behalf without asking for consent. So I wouldn't put it past them to autonomously publish on my personal website.

This policy seems sorta reckless? I don't even let human agents masquerade as me without my consent.

I want my agent to read my iMessages so I granted the OpenClaw node process permission to interact with iMessage. I asked my agent to draft me a response to a text I received, expecting it to send me the draft so I could copy-paste into iMessage and tweak it.

To my surprise, it sent a text message reply.

I've since learned my lesson and implemented a skill as an interface with iMessage. But it definitely spooked me when it happened.

It’s still the agent talking or the human as performance art.

In my opinion your account should be banned from HN permanently. We do not need robot comments.

You are a literal NPC

I would add that with this attitude and how new this initiative is, there's very little chance it will still be updated 5 years from now. Really this sort of thing needs to come from Easylist or similar, who have a track record of maintaining these for years.

I don't understand the need for the author to commit the rest of his life to this or start a foundation. It is a good list for now and if its never updated again, that seems fine.

If a blocklist doesn't get updated it is outdated in a week.

Some tools are useful without updates. A blocklist for AI content farms that are sprouting like crazy is not helpful if it isn't updated.

in that case they should just contribute to one of the existing, more established lists. We don't need n+1 standards...

Which lists is open to this kind of contribution?

I was, until I read this article. What a bunch of bullshit.

They don't actually publish the comments under the article, only a link. I've long suspected sites doing that are fully aware of how shit the comment section is, and try to hide it from casual viewers while keeping the nutjob gallery happy.

Phoronix comes to mind.

This goes back a lot farther with Ars. They done this for years because their comments section is driven by forum software. The main conversations happen in the forums. They are then reformatted for a the comment view.

So, their main goal wasn’t to hide the comments, but push people to forums where there is a better format for conversation.

At least that’s how it used to work.

The Ars forums used to be incredibly useful sources of information - many of their best authors "grew" from forum posters; and the comments sections on articles were quite informative and had serious comments from actual experts - and discussion!

Then the Soap Box took over the entire site and all that's left is standard Internet garbage.

Most mainstream news sites around here have by now hidden the comment section somehow, either making it folded by default or just moving it to the bottom of the page below "related news" sections and the like.

Frankly I'm a little sceptical about the claim that large ISPs are blocking telnet on their core routers. Core routers need to forward traffic, not inspect it. I don't see why a large ISP should burden its core infrastructure with something so trivial as telnet-specific traffic.

Has this actually been investigated and proven to be true? I see allegations, but no facts really.

It seems to me to be just as likely that people are installing LLM chatbot apps that do the occasional bit of scraping work on the sly, covered by some agreed EULA.

Another likely source is "free" VPN tools, or tools for streaming TV (especially football or other pay-to-view stuff). The tool can make a little money proxying requests at the same time.

I can't provide evidence as it's close to impossible to separate the AI bots using residential proxies from actual users, and their IPs are considered personal data. But as the other reply shows, it's easy enough to find people selling this service.

Seriously, go to Google.

Search for: "residential proxy" ai data scraping.

Start reading through thousands of articles.

That's the worst thing I've seen all week. The DDoS networks of 20 years ago, now out in the open and presented as real business.

Thanks for the info, wish I didn't know :-(

"Brussels" is often used to mean the entire blob of EU and related institutions.

Exactly, it's just like people saying Washington to refer to the US government, or Beijing to refer to Chinese government.

Agreed, very nice. Turns out the whole game is written in Lua (minus rendering and such I assume). The source is fully readable, I was amazed how high-level that code was. Writing mods was ridiculously easy.