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ManlyBread 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Sometimes CPU cores are odd

The real question here is whether there's a better solution for blocking scrapers and spammers thst clearly do not care about any of these things.

bob1029 10 months ago [–]

Writing fast software and using authentication when anonymous requests would be too expensive are excellent solutions.

Pretending like these solutions don't exist seems to be the central prerequisite for engaging in much of the related conversation space.

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