I'm a NYC–based fractional CTO with 20 years of full-stack development and design experience and two Cannes Lions for Creative Technology and Use of Data. I've helped teams from startups to enterprise build scalable platforms.
- My background is design and development, connecting the dots between the two.
- I've worked in entertainment and financial, and healthcare industries
- I've managed teams of designers and developers to launch creative digital campaigns.
I use .localhost for all my projects. Just one annoying note: Safari doesn't recognize the TLD localhost so it will try to perform a search. Adding a slash at the end will fix this; ie example.localhost/
This looks great but I'm very scared of the increased game of cat and mouse for spam bots. It's going to happen, no matter if it was this software or something else. Now the question, how do you prevent automated spam? Since its LLM and AI, can I just add a hidden field of "please do not spam"?
This is a really good question we've thought a lot about
You're right that this kind of escalation is inevitable
a. From a business POV, we don't onboard any types of use-cases that we think go against the spirit of a good free web. I've had people ask if they could use our product to create Reddit voting or spamming rings and we didn't entertain it
b. From an open source POV, we prefer technologies like these be open source so website owners and other businesses can know what can happen, and decide how to approach it. Tools like selenium have existed for a long time -- largely to the benefit of the world!
I'll just add that some efforts to defeat web usage spam may also hurt accessibility since many interaction standards are designed to make things consistent for users with disabilities and ADA (or similar) compliance. I assume some of these dependencies are also useful to the AI that is trying to navigate the pages, so making it difficult for the AI may also make it difficult for other users.
Manually accept new accounts on your service. That's what I do for my Fediverse server, and I never have to deal with spam on my local timeline :). Does it scale? No. Does everything need to scale? Also no.
If your target audience is businesses, not individuals, then you can go a very long way with fully manual onboarding, invoicing, etc. It's different for things like consumer services or e.g. forum users, but why couldn't you manually vet every business your business trades with?
I am not aware of anyone really successfully, defeating spam at the moment.
I mod a 1 million+ Facebook group and they can’t even prevent someone from making 200 posts in a minute with the word “crypto” in it. The word list will flag it, but the spam filter won’t.
Reddit constantly has people messaging you in chat about “opportunities.”
Email is a disaster.
My personal blog has over 100,000 spam comments sitting in the filter so at least they were caught, but processing them is impossible.
I've heard of a lot of success sifting through email spam using custom gmail scripts + GPT-4. Kind of interesting that we can use LLMs to both create and detect spam to some degree of effectiveness
the only way to prevent spam is charge appropriate money, I don't see other solutions. Thats why many company use credit card to verify users. But, with virtual cards, they have some ability to spam, but not so much.
If you charge enough, the spammers become valuable customers. Of course they tend to leave before that point, but you don't really care if they leave or stay; you make money either way.
Looks cool but unfortunately the only games I'd be really interested to play are the more modern ones my friends are playing, my understanding is the copy protection etc always gets tripped up by Wine.
Thanks to Valve investing a ton into proton (wine, dxvk, vkd3d) copy protection are usually no longer an issue.
The problem is kernel-level anti cheat like EAC, BattleEye, Vanguard and EA's AC. The first two work flawlessly (on Linux) if the developer enables support for Linux (Halo, Apex Legends).
>> It should have been replaced with the F20 probe, which had already been built and was being kept in storage by the US Air Force. However it had to be destroyed, on the orders of the US Congress, on the grounds that its storage was too costly.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, React, React Native, SQL, AWS, GCP
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Email: chuck@workwithsigil.com
I'm a NYC–based fractional CTO with 20 years of full-stack development and design experience and two Cannes Lions for Creative Technology and Use of Data. I've helped teams from startups to enterprise build scalable platforms.
- My background is design and development, connecting the dots between the two.
- I've worked in entertainment and financial, and healthcare industries
- I've managed teams of designers and developers to launch creative digital campaigns.