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Re:The Primitive Puppet Show by heh on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:01PM (#49336740)
A recent tragedy is the shuttering of the airplanes.live API. They've recently been bombarded with crazy amounts of traffic from people vibe coding apps, and violating the TOS and using it commercially. On top of that, after shuttering it to people not feeding data to the system, they were bombarded by LLM written emails, all nearly identical, and all formulaic. It's really sad - but they chuck them right in the bin.
Re:The Primitive Puppet Show by danfunk on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:08PM (#49336846)
That is a travesty. I can't help but hope we can find ways to protect projects like this in a way that doesn't require government or corporate regulation. Others have mentioned a Web of Trust / Social Credit - if we could wire that into the the http protocol ...
Re:The Primitive Puppet Show by heh on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:33PM (#49337229)
They have a new rule, no feeder, no API, and throw a 403 otherwise.