Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Not at the scale I was seeing. Big site, 10s of millions of crawls. 010
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They do their own scraping. They claim to split traffic depending on the purpose (user initiated, indexing, training), but I've seen traffic that looks like scraping from the ChatGPT-User UA that they claim is user initiated. developers.openai.com/api/docs/botsdevelopers.openai.comOverview of OpenAI Crawlers 140
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's pretty obviously different since "copying" doesn't deprive the original possessor of the information. That doesn't strictly imply "good", but it's far from "no different". 060
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as an open model, is in fact, open harness/model, or as I've recently taken to calling it, harness plus model. A model does not write code itself, but rather is another component of a fully functioning coding system made useful 150
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026> However, according to FastCompany, erasing watermarks from photos that haven’t been purchased could be considered copyright infringement. Should studios seek legal action, parents could be fined as much as $150,000. lmao. 130
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026share.watchduty.org/i/123302?ts=...share.watchduty.orgWatch Duty - Wildfire Maps & AlertsReal-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby 010
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Incredible. If he just started yelling into a mic about cutting entitlements, he would a) not cut entitlements and b) make his midterm wipeout even larger. 0180
Reposted by Benhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Increasingly concerned re: people offloading vital cognitive processes by using GIF replies. Expressing snark with words is a core part of being human, don't let some GIF picker widget a startup preloaded with clips of mid range TV shows take that from you! 10651457
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Can't imagine a more private network than one that's always off. 000
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Seems quite high stakes to accuse specific cheaters much more than saying something about aggregate cheaters. 100
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026www.latimes.com/california/s... Well, for one thing is she's one of the few council members supporting council expansion.latimes.comL.A. City Council should expand to 25 members, charter reform commission saysSupporters say a larger council will better represent smaller ethnic groups, including Black and Asian American and Pacific Islander residents. 101
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Being unfamiliar with whatever discourse you're subskeeting, however, does make me cool. 010
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Color perception is something that famously varies from person to person, even outside of traditional color blindness. 020
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026> The successful deployment of UAS in recent fire seasons has underscored their value in providing persistent monitoring, mapping fire perimeters, and assessing infrastructure damage www.faa.gov/uas/public_s...faa.gov 100
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026> These TFRs do not ban aircraft with proper authorization, including drones, from providing disaster relief and recovery assistance. www.faa.gov/uas/getting_...faa.gov 110
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Drones aren't categorically banned. Unregulated drones are banned. The same is true for unregulated helicopters, those just don't exist. 150
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026> Thomas Glick is a former Los Angeles City Planning Department Planner with over three decades of municipal expertise. Since 2017, they have served as a Board Member for the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association 1110
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My observations hiring early career folks for ~10 years is that the important trait is self motivation rather than technical difficulty. The ex-sales person who accidentally learned to program in excel scans the same as game mods to me. They can't help tinkering with whatever was in front of them. 0274
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Pretty neat coincidence that software and music both peaked when I was 22. 0220
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/09/20/w... Anti judicial reviewpeoplespolicyproject.orgWhat Exactly is the Liberal Position on the Supreme Court?Judicial supremacy for me but not for thee is no answer. 000
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I wouldn't even be _that_ mad about it except it won't also come with getting rid of the actual surveillance cameras like flock. We'll end up keeping the surveillance state but not gaining any traffic safety. 000
Reposted by Benmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"Ticketmaster CEO for Bass" pretty much explains the entire dynamics of the race 433562
Reposted by BenRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The preferred term is "person experiencing spreadsheets." When you use the term "spreadsheet people," it turns into their identity and suggests that there is no possibility for change. Spreadsheets are what they are going through right now. It is not who they are. 1450951
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Pretty surprised to see no movement on the "drive better than a human" question in particular. 100
Ben @benmayne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026archive.ph/uZgtharchive.phWelcome to nginxIf you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required. 010
Reposted by BenSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as an LLM, is in fact, Harness/LLM, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Harness plus LLM. LLM is not a consumer product unto itself, but rather another expensive component of a fully functioning text-generation system made useful 1532749
Reposted by BenWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/04/2026something sort of insane is that we have non-trivial evidence that posting is the top of all possible hierarchies of needs. some of the richest men in the world who could be on their mega-yachts choose to not only post, but orient their lives around posting related things 402479286
Reposted by BenKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me. 329203363674
Reposted by BenKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2025The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video 502124922279
Reposted by BenJacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened 91129223290
