Ondrej Brinkel @der_On@mastodon.anzui.dev

@bkastl In my opinion, if an algorithm leads to "racist" or discriminating results, why use it at all? It does not matter if it is trained using biased data or if it is simply "dumb". The results are the same and it us our responsibility as devs to say "no" to such things instead of arguing about the algorithm. Its still us, who write those algorithms.

@markosaric @wizzwizz4 I'm using shared hosting, so fail2ban is not an option. As I'm using a CMS system I've installed a "honeypot" extension that adds a hidden field (in my case "url") and expects the form fill to be at least 5s. It blocks a lot of bots already, but not all. Maybe I should increase the expected duration.

@wizzwizz4 @markosaric Yep. So called "honeypots" do not work anymore. I have one installed but bots keep on crawling in since a couple of months. I would also self host, so I'm open to ethical alternatives.

@aral @Decentralize_today Just posted this on the birdsite with some more opinions: https://twitter.com/OBrinkel/status/1299314779996278784?s=20

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