I really enjoyed the writing style in this article.

And the bot progression from "alter user agent" to "change IP addresses" to providers having to ban whole subnets, whole ASNs, and realizing "proxy SDK monetization" is a thing mirrors threat actor progression from the time before LLMs.

It feels like this progression of increasingly drastic measures to circumvent the protections of a computer system ought to be enough to establish criminal intent and get some of the people running those crawlers into prison.

It does. It's literally a felony but for some reason not a single person has pressed charges.

There is no evidence for who's doing this and nobody has made any effort to obtain any.

Sorry, no evidence for who's running... GPTBot and ClaudeBot?

No evidence for who's running the global ddos scraper network.

Didn’t read the article, huh?

Oh I did. They're complaining about literally 14 cores across all of git.kernel.org. Definitely not in the "people who can get law enforcement to take them seriously" group.

It goes beyond mirrors, it's just something criminals have been doing since forever, to abuse all websites.

I asked Fable to transcribe three short lines of Korean-language text in a small image. It suspected the image might contain song lyrics and refused. Haiku transcribed it with no issue.

There are Python bindings via the stretchable library.

https://github.com/mortencombat/stretchable

You can read a lot more about it here: https://mojolang.org/docs/vision/

Seriously, wow.

See their in-depth vision doc here:

https://mojolang.org/nightly/docs/vision/

Check out the last video on the page. It zooms in and you get a sense of just how much resolution there is.

> Check out the last video on the page. It zooms in

That's what I mean, it's a looped 3 second video of the same animation, zoomed in a few times.

Really, don't use LLM for polish; that's what wrecks it imho. People write idiosyncratically and that's a good thing. That's your voice.

Tells like "load-bearing" and "real", for example.

"the heap's simplicity is load-bearing: once..."

"It's a real thing"

"It's a real trade-off"

"The design buys real things"

"it comes down to a real design choice"

"That's a real critique"

From Future Plans...

> And after Volumes 1--5 are done, God willing, I plan to publish Volume 6 (the theory of context-free languages) and Volume 7 (Compiler techniques), but only if the things I want to say about those topics are still relevant and still haven't been said. Volumes 1--5 represent the central core of computer programming for sequential machines; the subjects of Volumes 6 and 7 are important but more specialized.

Not to forget he was asked specifically to write a book about compilers (= "Volume 7") by Addison Wesley in the 1960s.

Now, half a century later, he is chickening out...

And about Volume 5...

> Syntactic Algorithms, in preparation.

9. Lexical scanning (includes also string search and data compression)

10. Parsing techniques