My goals for this firewall were mostly to provide better robot blocking and perhaps some more powerful DDoS protection than my Raspberry Pi 3 web server is capable of delivering. I still have to do some testing before I will know if my new firewall actually provides either of those, but at least I now have the additional ability to run multiple physical web servers on my LAN. Exploring that should be fun, and fun is a very important component of running a home web server.
Not my article. Just sharing.
All this effort to block clankers? Absolutely worth it fuck clankers.
I absolutely love the term clankers. It’s the perfect blend of dystopian cyberpunk and the very real threat of AI.
It seems goofy to me — I wish we had collectively picked a term with more oomph.
I’m struggling to come up with an alternative though.
toasters
So say we all.
so say we all
All of this has happened before.
does that mean we get to burn down textile mills?
I’m still trying to make ‘sloppers’ happen. Perfectly describes the lack of thought that goes into what they produce.
I like ‘sloppers’ as a term for the morons distrubing and consuming the shit that the clankers are excreting.
clankers make the end result that sloppers (meatbags) eat up ;)
Yeah and the make a mess of network traffic that slows everything down.
Sludgers works too, but I like slop for the LLM output, so it makes sense as the bot term of derision.
Stealing a slur from Star Wars and engaging in traditional name calling to show we disapprove of uncreative slop.
We can’t even think of an original term. We can’t think of a novel way to shit on AI. We just copy what everyone else is doing to make fun of the plagiarism machine.
No no - it’s not plagiarism; it’s standardization.
Why does everyone think the term came from Star Wars? I know it was used in steampunk before then, and google suggests it goes back to a 1958 article about robots. Sorry, not trying to be pedantic, just feels like a lot of people give Star Wars unjust credit for things they didn’t actually create.