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margalabargala
19 days ago
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Google changes its search box
Okay, nix the zip bombs. What's my obligation to treat bot-shaped traffic as something I should reply to?
charcircuit
19 days ago
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Your obligation is not to cause harm to the requester.
chadgpt3
18 days ago
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Sending them a zip bomb didn't cause harm. It was their choice to unzip it. Is jwz liable if a child sees his testicle eggcup macro when visiting via HN?
charcircuit
18 days ago
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Why send a zip bomb if your goal is not to cause some amount of a denial of service attack to the crawler.
Showing porn to a minor is not legal either.
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