Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩 (cringe EU-brained military girl) on Nostr: it is extremely disappointing to me how quickly supposed open data advocates are ...
it is extremely disappointing to me how quickly supposed open data advocates are willing to abandon that and slap heavy compute proof-of-work walls in front of their websites, in a blind panic to lock out LLMs. Congrats, you locked out "legacy" browsers, old phones, people on custom software, people who have a PSP or a 4th gen ipod touch because that's all they can keep hidden from abusers, and whatnot.
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