Blog was slow today, we found one reason - ByteDance LOL

    Posted by matt on 2nd of Apr 2024 at 07:04 pm

    The blog has been hanging up on me at times when I try to post it's frozen for me for a minute or so at times. James has been watching the server, and noticing spikes and we've been trying to figure out the cause

    Funny, we figured out that Bytedance, yes the Chinese company that owns Tiktok that so many people are hopelessly addicted to, was pinging our server every hr 10 min into the each, hitting us like 250 a second! We surmise they are trying to index our data, which is common actually. However, that doesn't help us or do us any good so we blocked them

    anyway figured I'd share 

    There goes your future image

    Posted by DigiNomad on 2nd of Apr 2024 at 07:16 pm

    There goes your future image and likeness lawsuit when you find an AI generated website with automatically created daily market videos and intraday AI content, including annotated charts, that seems to be mirroring your process for the last 20 years   

    Not that I'm worried about AI in the slightest. Here's a post from me earlier today:

    *If you have access to Grok, ask it to roast you. Then ask it to roast anyone you know on Twitter and or advise on their political leanings. Once you're thoroughly freaked out, ask Grok if it can remove any of your posts that suggest a political affiliation or that might seem subversive to a political regime or party. It said it could help me with that about a month ago, but I would have to give it my credentials to login. Not joking...but now it says it can't delete posts for me, it can only create a list of posts I should delete.  

    I'm going to reveal my

    Posted by auni on 3rd of Apr 2024 at 01:15 am

    I'm going to reveal my real name.  I have been trading gold stocks since college... 1978.  I traded calls during the Hunt Brother bubble.

    My real name is... Golden Eye.

    Respectfully,

    AU -N-I  

    I guess it's too late

    Posted by DigiNomad on 2nd of Apr 2024 at 07:33 pm

    I guess it's too late to ask BPT to delete all my historical posts. Thank God I have never posted my real name!

    I'll post your name and

    Posted by matt on 2nd of Apr 2024 at 07:48 pm

    I'll post your name and address here in a few for folks LOL, everyone's interested in the mysterious DigiNomad   

    again don't worry guys, no one can get access to your personal info here. Heck, I can't even see what your credit card number is, it's all encrypted and not on our server

    You might be more worried

    Posted by DigiNomad on 2nd of Apr 2024 at 08:07 pm

    You might be more worried if you spent as much time in various countries Customs as I do!   That delay while they scroll through your history is nerve wracking sometimes...especially when I was a Gov employee working overseas...and that's not going to get better when they have an AI assistant. 

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