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FYI huggingface refers to the alien from the Aliens movies that we need to prevent from reaching earth at any cost because it means the end of civilization.

Just checking in because y'all sound good with that.


Doesn’t it refer to the emoji?


haha stupid xenomorphs with their acid blood and pointy bits - all they had to do is make the beasts write code and do our homework :)


When Gen Z is in charge of security protocols, lol.


True lol


Those are facehuggers.


Funny retcon, but come on… TIL huggingface started as a chatbot for teens who didn’t get enuf hugs.


It reminds me of that French fire-fighter who threw caution to the wind in rescuing me and my precious cat Lulu from our flat when it was engulfed in flames. He sadly perished in that fire but I will never forget him.

I can't recall his name but I think he had a mustache.


And it will be largely unnoticed by site operators because who can be expected to edge case that into their logic?


> Apparently the eu official website really needs to track you then.

No, they don't really need to track you, that's why it requires consent to do it.

They are doing exactly what they say.

In other words, they're not saying don't track your visitors. They're saying get consent first.


Is there any other way to get that data? It's clearly about cookies but it's specifically about tracking cookies.


Supercookies: <https://www.comparitech.com/identity-theft-protection/superc...> <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/new-cookie-technologie...> <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh>

Browser fingerprinting / Panopticlick: <https://ssd.eff.org/module/what-fingerprinting> <https://panopticlick.org/>

On-device identifiers --- Google AdID (GAID), Apple IDFA, etc.: <https://developer.transmitsecurity.com/guides/risk/secure_de...> <https://geraguard.com/blog/how-device-fingerprinting-works-m...> <https://alejandrocordon.com/blog/2025/01/18/unique-identifie...>.


Sure but these are all the same thing as cookies.

And BYW, browser headers can even be a violation if it's determined that you are using them for tracking users in a way that violates ePrivacy demands.

It's still a cookies thing.


Browser fingerprinting is not cookies. Cookies are a very specific technical thing.


GDPR is not about cookies, and what data do you mean? The data about how you use the site, tied to anything they can identify you with?


Actually you can't send any cookie that is not essential to the operation of the website without consent and that would include analytics regardless of PII. same for pixel tracking / fingerprinting, it's all a no-no.


There's "legitimate business interest" which I think is a catch-all for things you want to do as long as they don't invade privacy?


Most of those things involve tracking users I imagine but if there's any that don't, go for it.


I think the drug users will know before the Opus users.


I don't think what place you're in matters anymore when a small lab like Moonshot can come in and take the top spot out of nowhere.


Sure, but that's more of an indictment of SpaceXAI. All those resources, and they get upstaged by a bunch of much more compute constrained Chinese startups.


I disagree. They're renting out GPUs to other providers because they realize it's a long game that they're in a better position to win because they control infrastructure as well as hardware.

We'll have to wait and see I guess.


Long game - lol. xAI lost/never gained traction. The talent all left, so Musk is trying to recoup some of the enormous investment in hardware.


> Long game - lol. xAI lost/never gained traction. The talent all left, so Musk is trying to recoup some of the enormous investment in hardware.

This seems more likely to me, but we'll see I guess.


They're waiting for OpenAI and Anthropic's bubble to burst most likely and then they can acquire that talent for a song.


The only way crypto touches lawyers that I can think of is smart contracts, and that's been.. minimally impactful at most.


It's a cache. My tiny websites couldn't survive getting hammered by AI bots without them.


Are you sure? Have you tried, or did Cloudflare just tell you that?


I wouldn't need a cache if my $6 server could handle 1M hits a day.


1M hits a day is 11 and a bit hits per second. Your $6 server should be able to handle that. If it can't, then de-pessimize your code until it can.


It hits a database with 100M records. The index doesn't fit in RAM. Appreciate relevant feedback always but you can talk a long walk off a short STFU.


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