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That's it.

Also, fuck whoever DDOSed the board.

I'm still wondering WTF they'd DDOS **THIS** Board.

LadyTevar wrote: 2026-03-21 11:43am I'm still wondering WTF they'd DDOS **THIS** Board.

Could be all those AI companies checking the board far too often for new data to shovel into their AIs. I've seen articles about that causing problems elsewhere.

bilateralrope wrote: 2026-03-21 11:55am

LadyTevar wrote: 2026-03-21 11:43am I'm still wondering WTF they'd DDOS **THIS** Board.

Could be all those AI companies checking the board far too often for new data to shovel into their AIs. I've seen articles about that causing problems elsewhere.

That might explain the number of visitors being "40550 on Mon Mar 17, 2025 8:08 am".

Another thing "AI" has ruined.

bilateralrope wrote: 2026-03-21 11:55am

LadyTevar wrote: 2026-03-21 11:43am I'm still wondering WTF they'd DDOS **THIS** Board.

Could be all those AI companies checking the board far too often for new data to shovel into their AIs. I've seen articles about that causing problems elsewhere.

It is 100% this. Other less-than-active forums from my youth of which I'm a member see the same thing happen, and one admin said it was an AI company scraping the whole forum.

In that forum's case, I question how effective a model will be trained if it's based on hundreds of thousands of posts from two decades ago, consisting largely of teenagers arguing about politics and calling each other homophobic slurs, but what do I know.

I was wondering why the board was down granted never considered DDOS.

Alferd Packer wrote: 2026-03-22 05:45pm

bilateralrope wrote: 2026-03-21 11:55am

LadyTevar wrote: 2026-03-21 11:43am I'm still wondering WTF they'd DDOS **THIS** Board.

Could be all those AI companies checking the board far too often for new data to shovel into their AIs. I've seen articles about that causing problems elsewhere.

It is 100% this. Other less-than-active forums from my youth of which I'm a member see the same thing happen, and one admin said it was an AI company scraping the whole forum.

In that forum's case, I question how effective a model will be trained if it's based on hundreds of thousands of posts from two decades ago, consisting largely of teenagers arguing about politics and calling each other homophobic slurs, but what do I know.

AI is largely useless and makes no money.

Alferd Packer wrote: 2026-03-22 05:45pm
In that forum's case, I question how effective a model will be trained if it's based on hundreds of thousands of posts from two decades ago, consisting largely of teenagers arguing about politics and calling each other homophobic slurs, but what do I know.

No need to question the effectiveness of LLMs. It is already well demonstrated by things like:
- Regular hallucinations. Like all the lawyers getting in trouble for filing an LLM written document to the court that cites cases that do not exist.
- Failing to correctly count the number of r's in strawberry


Right now, they are in the most dangerous stage of any level of automation. When they get things right often enough that people stop checking to make sure they are doing things correctly. Leading to a lot of nasty surprises.

Even though I first heard this phrase with relation to AI-enhanced CVs, it actually applies to anything written with AI: "own every word", i.e. check everything it's written, instead of just assuming it's perfect. "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer"

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2026-03-23 05:33pm Even though I first heard this phrase with relation to AI-enhanced CVs, it actually applies to anything written with AI: "own every word", i.e. check everything it's written, instead of just assuming it's perfect. "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer"

I've not heard that saying in a long time

LadyTevar wrote: 2026-03-23 11:13pm

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2026-03-23 05:33pm Even though I first heard this phrase with relation to AI-enhanced CVs, it actually applies to anything written with AI: "own every word", i.e. check everything it's written, instead of just assuming it's perfect. "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer"

I've not heard that saying in a long time

Nor have I, I will admit I had to look it up to remind myself of the exact wording but it's even more relevant now than when it was first uttered more than fifty years ago.

Like the story I've been working on I often have the AI generate a dozen iterations as I refine the instructions each time since no single one is completely perfect.

'Perfect' is the mortal enemy of 'good enough'.
The 'to err is human but to really foul things up' thing actually seems to predate computers, I've seen this used with 'lawyers' and 'politicians', too.

Batman wrote: 2026-03-24 05:03pm 'Perfect' is the mortal enemy of 'good enough'.
The 'to err is human but to really foul things up' thing actually seems to predate computers, I've seen this used with 'lawyers' and 'politicians', too.

Reminds me of the old joke where a doctor, an architect and a politician are arguing over whose profession was the oldest:
The doctor said Eve was created from Adam's rib, which was a surgical procedure
The architect said that before that, order was created from chaos, which was a form of architecture
The politician said that somebody created the chaos first

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2026-03-24 05:11pm

Batman wrote: 2026-03-24 05:03pm 'Perfect' is the mortal enemy of 'good enough'.
The 'to err is human but to really foul things up' thing actually seems to predate computers, I've seen this used with 'lawyers' and 'politicians', too.

Reminds me of the old joke where a doctor, an architect and a politician are arguing over whose profession was the oldest:
The doctor said Eve was created from Adam's rib, which was a surgical procedure
The architect said that before that, order was created from chaos, which was a form of architecture
The politician said that somebody created the chaos first

Need a new one to cover AI.

bobalot wrote: 2026-03-28 05:15am

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: 2026-03-24 05:11pm

Batman wrote: 2026-03-24 05:03pm 'Perfect' is the mortal enemy of 'good enough'.
The 'to err is human but to really foul things up' thing actually seems to predate computers, I've seen this used with 'lawyers' and 'politicians', too.

Reminds me of the old joke where a doctor, an architect and a politician are arguing over whose profession was the oldest:
The doctor said Eve was created from Adam's rib, which was a surgical procedure
The architect said that before that, order was created from chaos, which was a form of architecture
The politician said that somebody created the chaos first

Need a new one to cover AI.

You mean swap the politician for a robot?

Honestly, I was wondering if the board had ceased to exist.

Broomstick wrote: 2026-03-30 08:14am Honestly, I was wondering if the board had ceased to exist.

Nice to see you again, we were worried you had ceased to exist

Broomstick wrote: 2026-03-30 08:14am Honestly, I was wondering if the board had ceased to exist.

I wonder if it is worth exploring if this board could be archived.

bobalot wrote: 2026-03-30 08:23pm

Broomstick wrote: 2026-03-30 08:14am Honestly, I was wondering if the board had ceased to exist.

I wonder if it is worth exploring if this board could be archived.

I understand a couple people are exploring that possibility.

It's a pity that the recent Disney Star Wars movies were a bit of a bomb.

They don't really have the same technical focus, issues, etc. that were the subject of online discussions. It may have resulted in more people coming to the board.

bobalot wrote: 2026-04-02 05:00am It's a pity that the recent Disney Star Wars movies were a bit of a bomb.

They don't really have the same technical focus, issues, etc. that were the subject of online discussions. It may have resulted in more people coming to the board.

Agreed.

And while this gets repeated often on the SDN Discord media forum, I'm going to put it bluntly here. The new Movies were directly cribbed from the Original Trilogy, and then horribly mutated by the scriptwriters and further mangled by the series of Directors.

The new Star Wars and Star Trek (with a few notable exceptions like Andor) have gone corporate and bland.