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What is the specific concrete purpose of downloading millions of URLs per hour across different domains if it's "not doing anything wrong"?

Mostly ecommerce and pricing data. I work for marketplaces, brands, retail stores and even our own saas competitors. We match the EAN (gtin) to the correct SKU within seconds (Google Shopping, Amazon, etc). Part of it is our own trained ML models.

Might be it for scrapping content for training an LLM? Oh no only big tech allowed to do it...

"The gangsters do it and get away with it so any random person should get to as well"? Not a particularly defensible position if that's an accurate paraphrase.

If Slint's licensing terms don't bother you, that's cool. They are more restrictive than most of the Rust ecosystem being dual Apache/MIT, though.


Was there some new developments with this project that renewed interest recently? I started learning Rust in 2018 or 2019 and I think "good Rust GUI" research is probably at least that old.


The last demo I saw just had a button so the chess app shows a lot of progress.


Why would it be more spooky if Apple in particular did this vs all the other hardware vendors that ship a pre-installed OS?


Doesn't serve the same purpose as OP, but for the opposite direction, `git maintenance register` is a built in if all you need is periodic fetching and GC:

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-maintenance#Documentation/git-m...



Small nit, but PR description bodies might wind up as part of a commit message verbatim, depending on repo settings and the merger's personal behavior. It's an easy outcome, the merger doesn't need to copy and paste or anything, and I think it might be a default or popular setting for squash-merges.


It has once even force pushed to github, which doesn't allow branch protection for private personal projects.

This is only restricted for *fully free* accounts, but this feature only requires a minimum of a paid Pro account. That starts around $4 USD/month, which sounds worth it to prevent lost work from a runaway tool.


I was on one till recently, maybe I still am. But does it work for orgs? I put some projects under orgs when they become more than a few projects.


That's a fee for not running a local git proxy with permissions enforcement that holds onto the GitHub credentials in place of Claude.


Do you know of a good ready-made implementation of such a proxy? I’ve been looking for one.

GitHub is also a worry in terms of exfiltration. You can’t block pushes to public repos unless you are using GitHub Enterprise Managed Users afaict.


Or putting the code and .git in a sandbox without the credentials


Colorful is an odd way to spell "vocally bigoted".


I get downvoted here when I call him a racist.


Me too, and because of that I feel it's even more important to use language like racist, white nationalist, and fascist when describing him and his ilk, because that's what they are. Softening the language only leads to those beliefs becoming more normalized than they already are.


The amount of questions I fielded about web3, coins, ledgers, etc as an IC speaking with customers or internal leadership was around an order of magnitude lower, and well-known brands weren't trying to sell me any of them. It was much rarer for it to get shoved into a product it wasn't helpful for, too.

Never thought I'd feel nostalgic about that era...


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