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Attilatheblond

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1. Vapid R US*

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2026, 11:43 AM

8 hrs ago

*New motto of the United States?

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We Tried to Detect Bots in 500 Comments. We Found a More Interesting Problem. [View all] usonian 8 hrs ago OP

Vapid R US* Attilatheblond 8 hrs ago #1

It's infecting the rest of the world, too. erronis 5 hrs ago #13

Guess that explains why..... Flo Mingo 7 hrs ago #2

Bot or not? Hard to tell when people act like bots. usonian 7 hrs ago #4

The ones that are likely to put their foot down on something like this will be advertisers AZJonnie 7 hrs ago #3

Am I the only one who would like to know exactly what a bot is? CrispyQ 7 hrs ago #5

Let me count the ways! There are so many. usonian 7 hrs ago #8

Useful info. To add to the original question: erronis 5 hrs ago #14

On my university sysadmin job, I noticed that some systems timed you out quickly if you dawdled typing a password. usonian 5 hrs ago #16

When I wrote web scrapers/spiders/whatever, I usually added random pauses erronis 5 hrs ago #17

Some websites disable pasting passwords. usonian 5 hrs ago #18

You can get around that disabling pasting if you really want. erronis 1 hr ago #19

I did electronic and optical engineering to start. Built my own S-100 systems back in the day. usonian 1 hr ago #20

Sounds a bit like my history --- I'll DM you so I won't clutter these airwaves. erronis 27 min ago #21

One nation controlled by the media flvegan 7 hrs ago #6

Orwell explained newspeak and why Big Brother has to rewrite history. usonian 7 hrs ago #9

Seems worth pointing out who "Musabi Labs" are: muriel_volestrangler 7 hrs ago #7

sorry but blubunyip 6 hrs ago #12

Yup. "holistic" just raised another huge red flag. erronis 5 hrs ago #15

the role of Bots and AI have set off a big debate around Reddit stock and earnings GreatGazoo 7 hrs ago #10

This is Reddit. Made up stories and fake emotion's Melon 7 hrs ago #11

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