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bchot · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

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@bchot said:
i;m back, BTW, good morning everybody, and it's only been 12 pages overnight, not too much. i am going to enjoy it.

Hey man, good morning to you. While you were gone, another member just challenged me to go for the gaming PC and sorry to say, I am aiming for the gaming PC now.

i know you just yanking my chain..

PS i decided to get to the ongoing convo for now, since many people here.. i will go thru backlog of pages 104-114 later when all of you are asleep and i got nothing else to do.. so i will be active in the active posts for now.. otherwise it takes a long time to get to the top..

Thank you for taking the joke like a champ. As for backlog, me and Ben used to do that vigorously last year, like pages of commenting on comments from the day earlier. This annoyed @TrK and @xpress7 who were having a serious conversation. We stopped doing that since then .
But, yah, last year's backlog was crazy. We both used to wake up to atleast 200+ notifications. Ah, thsoe were the days.

hopefully it won't be the case now. but i will be going thru those later when y'all sleeping and i have nothign to do.. i am planning to take a hot bath though, stupid neck pains are driving me mad.. can only turn my head 45deg either way.. not good. and hurts.. I am an old man, pardon me talking about my ailments.. my friends from childhood sometimes called me grandpa for that.

noob404 · November 2025

I don't know why but LET becomes slow for me around this time. Has been happening for the past 2 days. Anyone else?

mc27 · November 2025

Decided to go for a Canadian one this time, nice to see it up here! Order 5176984349 for the bandwidth, please and thank you!

bchot · November 2025

@noob404 said:
Okay guys, dinner time. See you soon.

oh thank you thank you, letting me catch up
bon appetite.

noob404 · November 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:
Okay guys, dinner time. See you soon.

oh thank you thank you, letting me catch up
bon appetite.

You are late, I am already back! evil laugh

kidrock · November 2025

A gaming laptop to win

bchot · November 2025

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

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@DaDeveloper said:

@TrK said:
The counter https://let.redcode.uk has been implemented with the following changes, An auto refresh toggle and integration to scraper for allowing multiple threads to scrape without breaking any changes, one manual input is required on API level(disabled currently).

This looks awesome, giving @MrEd some competition XD

lol Ed's version is efficient while mine is just immature piece of junk built in a day or two?

I do remember Ben was also building one last year, just for practice. He might have even shared a few screenshots of it, but, he did abandon it mid-way.

lol i think i did remember it and i guess he abandoned it after struggling with CF WAF.

Probably. He was using Python from what I can remember.

Scraping with python is fairly easy especially with undetected chrome drivers which can really bypass CF if done with a residential connection.

I didn't know this. Being a PHP lover, I used that and I am gonna say, it was a pain.

Php is great have too many projects running on php8.3, 8.4 coupled with zstd and opcache,

Yah, but, recently I had a few projects which required textual analysis. That's when I realised Python and Php are worlds apart for textual analysis.

technically you can achieve anything with PHP as well but what you will require is having a magnitude of security issues if you go with that way. i remember i ran a DNS lookup service in 2015-2016 and i was using a single PHP file with just around 100 lines of code, everything else was just shell_exec();

i do a lot of that, shell exec types, in my work.. it's easier. although i had a partner before, he was doing more into python apps things,. i am not so good with python, so i just run those apps in shell, while he would use them in his python code and make a better setup.. i run jobs randomly on several servers, he would actually use rabbitmq and a myriad of other apps and modules to make sure work load is equal everywhere (we used to have 7 servers at most). now i am down to 2 servers, so actually just shell exec working fine for me, not that i know how to continue his method.. also he did lots of docker instances there.. i know docker a bit, but not that hardcore..

yangyang028 · November 2025

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BasToTheMax · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@BasToTheMax said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:
The counter https://let.redcode.uk has been implemented with the following changes, An auto refresh toggle and integration to scraper for allowing multiple threads to scrape without breaking any changes, one manual input is required on API level(disabled currently).

That's cool. So, you could just put any thread link there, and it would generate the results?

yup, and once it starts scraping it just create another endpoint for the API with ThreadID and that ID can be reused on frontend without even doing any changes on codebase with the help of the input bar. The default threadID the frontend is requesting is currently set to this thread.

That is awesome. So, presently I am guessing it can only work with the LET software?

Yup but it's not that hard to repurpose it to work with any other bulletin system.

If I am not wrong, the posts are identified based on html ids and classes, right? Or, is there a more efficient way to do this? A few years ago, I tested scraping to understand how it works and that was the method I used. It was inefficient on some websites and back then I wodnered if there was a better way.

Yup it's all parsed from HTML dom and classes, some validation here and there though. I am also storing the posts in DB in case i want to include some SPAM score kinda analysis.

What API are you gonna use for the SPAM score in the future if/when it's introduced?

it depends, what i am thinking of utilize a small language model and train it for my use case, it's gotta be long dream for sure

LLm seems to be the way to go, since it needs textual analysis.

It will probably a VSLM at best, a very small language model

Any specific models in mind?

Not yet, will look into how i am going to grade the SPAM score part and what methodology i can use before going to that sinkhole.

Do let me know which model you end up with. I am looking for an all purpose model for my low RAM PC.

How much ram do you have available?

32GB DDR4 for now.

That should be enough to host like a 8b, 14b or like 24b (if that exist) model on that. I think 8b or 14b should be enough for most tasks!

noob404 · November 2025

@kidrock said:
A gaming laptop to win

And a a gaming PC and a handheld gaming console and much more!!!

bchot · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@DaDeveloper said:

@TrK said:
The counter https://let.redcode.uk has been implemented with the following changes, An auto refresh toggle and integration to scraper for allowing multiple threads to scrape without breaking any changes, one manual input is required on API level(disabled currently).

This looks awesome, giving @MrEd some competition XD

lol Ed's version is efficient while mine is just immature piece of junk built in a day or two?

I do remember Ben was also building one last year, just for practice. He might have even shared a few screenshots of it, but, he did abandon it mid-way.

lol i think i did remember it and i guess he abandoned it after struggling with CF WAF.

Probably. He was using Python from what I can remember.

Scraping with python is fairly easy especially with undetected chrome drivers which can really bypass CF if done with a residential connection.

I didn't know this. Being a PHP lover, I used that and I am gonna say, it was a pain.

Php is great have too many projects running on php8.3, 8.4 coupled with zstd and opcache,

Yah, but, recently I had a few projects which required textual analysis. That's when I realised Python and Php are worlds apart for textual analysis.

technically you can achieve anything with PHP as well but what you will require is having a magnitude of security issues if you go with that way. i remember i ran a DNS lookup service in 2015-2016 and i was using a single PHP file with just around 100 lines of code, everything else was just shell_exec();

I do that as well. Most of my PHP lines are shell_exec to python scripts

LOL that's what i just wrote.. just gotta make sure environmental stuff is available, like default paths, or at least call up python with full paths, and stuff like that. I do have a couple of docker images involved just to make spinning up the needed helper easier, but in case that won't work right - they always have backups with/via node-js..

BasToTheMax · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@kidrock said:
A gaming laptop to win

And a a gaming PC and a handheld gaming console and much more!!!

And a lot of credits!

bchot · November 2025

@TrK said:

@bchot said:

@TrK said:
The counter https://let.redcode.uk has been implemented with the following changes, An auto refresh toggle and integration to scraper for allowing multiple threads to scrape without breaking any changes, one manual input is required on API level(disabled currently).

looks exciting, maybe a bit heavy too due to lots of 1-2 comment posters, but otherwise great job. i like slick panels. @MrEd is also great. auto-reload though i thought about asking him for it, and it's kinda excessive IMHO, just extra load on where it's hosted, since i do not think someone is monitoring your monitor... but once in a while i will check it out, and i would like to actually see the jump in numbers, so auto-reload may actually rob me of the fun of seeing the work i put in maybe it could be a checkbox? to enable/disable autoreload.

It's really a toggle with manual input of how many seconds you want as the interval. Also mine is operated headless with API server on different server(that too is cached with redis). You can try overloading it(after i force enable the cache on cloudflare). Wanna try that?

no, i was just thinking aloud, i guess. i am way past trying to mess with other people's work.. i do sometimes check my competitors that way though, try to give long jobs and stuff, but usually nothing comes out of it.. it is hard to overload a system being a lonesome warrior, even if you know caveats and holes and such.. unless you make up a script that will do it for you.. then it's a fair game of who can do better with the tools allowed.. LOL

noob404 · November 2025

@BasToTheMax said:

@noob404 said:

@BasToTheMax said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:
The counter https://let.redcode.uk has been implemented with the following changes, An auto refresh toggle and integration to scraper for allowing multiple threads to scrape without breaking any changes, one manual input is required on API level(disabled currently).

That's cool. So, you could just put any thread link there, and it would generate the results?

yup, and once it starts scraping it just create another endpoint for the API with ThreadID and that ID can be reused on frontend without even doing any changes on codebase with the help of the input bar. The default threadID the frontend is requesting is currently set to this thread.

That is awesome. So, presently I am guessing it can only work with the LET software?

Yup but it's not that hard to repurpose it to work with any other bulletin system.

If I am not wrong, the posts are identified based on html ids and classes, right? Or, is there a more efficient way to do this? A few years ago, I tested scraping to understand how it works and that was the method I used. It was inefficient on some websites and back then I wodnered if there was a better way.

Yup it's all parsed from HTML dom and classes, some validation here and there though. I am also storing the posts in DB in case i want to include some SPAM score kinda analysis.

What API are you gonna use for the SPAM score in the future if/when it's introduced?

it depends, what i am thinking of utilize a small language model and train it for my use case, it's gotta be long dream for sure

LLm seems to be the way to go, since it needs textual analysis.

It will probably a VSLM at best, a very small language model

Any specific models in mind?

Not yet, will look into how i am going to grade the SPAM score part and what methodology i can use before going to that sinkhole.

Do let me know which model you end up with. I am looking for an all purpose model for my low RAM PC.

How much ram do you have available?

32GB DDR4 for now.

That should be enough to host like a 8b, 14b or like 24b (if that exist) model on that. I think 8b or 14b should be enough for most tasks!

14b performs good. Anything above that is a hit or miss.

noob404 · November 2025

@BasToTheMax said:

@noob404 said:

@kidrock said:
A gaming laptop to win

And a a gaming PC and a handheld gaming console and much more!!!

And a lot of credits!

Oh yah fort that. Youa re right.

bchot · November 2025

@TrK said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:
The counter https://let.redcode.uk has been implemented with the following changes, An auto refresh toggle and integration to scraper for allowing multiple threads to scrape without breaking any changes, one manual input is required on API level(disabled currently).

That's cool. So, you could just put any thread link there, and it would generate the results?

yup, and once it starts scraping it just create another endpoint for the API with ThreadID and that ID can be reused on frontend without even doing any changes on codebase with the help of the input bar. The default threadID the frontend is requesting is currently set to this thread.

That is awesome. So, presently I am guessing it can only work with the LET software?

unless some other site is using similar forum soft that is used here.. but i bet it's easy to redo it, just HTML parsing and finding the right combo of tags/words on the graph.. @MrEd is doing a lot more by checking uniqueness - it needs quite a handling of the post, cut out quotes, smilies, etc..

Yup fairly easy to repurpose it for any other bulletin board, as for uniqueness checks, it depends, similar posts ranking is different and i believe Ed did an excellent job with that, but i am looking at is SPAM score, will need understand the methodology first before trying anything solid.

heh... that will be fun.. just arguments about why you think this is spam or that is spam... give more reasons to talk, so why not?

noob404 · November 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@noob404 said:

@TrK said:

@DaDeveloper said:

@TrK said:
The counter https://let.redcode.uk has been implemented with the following changes, An auto refresh toggle and integration to scraper for allowing multiple threads to scrape without breaking any changes, one manual input is required on API level(disabled currently).

This looks awesome, giving @MrEd some competition XD

lol Ed's version is efficient while mine is just immature piece of junk built in a day or two?

I do remember Ben was also building one last year, just for practice. He might have even shared a few screenshots of it, but, he did abandon it mid-way.

lol i think i did remember it and i guess he abandoned it after struggling with CF WAF.

Probably. He was using Python from what I can remember.

Scraping with python is fairly easy especially with undetected chrome drivers which can really bypass CF if done with a residential connection.

I didn't know this. Being a PHP lover, I used that and I am gonna say, it was a pain.

Php is great have too many projects running on php8.3, 8.4 coupled with zstd and opcache,

Yah, but, recently I had a few projects which required textual analysis. That's when I realised Python and Php are worlds apart for textual analysis.

technically you can achieve anything with PHP as well but what you will require is having a magnitude of security issues if you go with that way. i remember i ran a DNS lookup service in 2015-2016 and i was using a single PHP file with just around 100 lines of code, everything else was just shell_exec();

I do that as well. Most of my PHP lines are shell_exec to python scripts

LOL that's what i just wrote.. just gotta make sure environmental stuff is available, like default paths, or at least call up python with full paths, and stuff like that. I do have a couple of docker images involved just to make spinning up the needed helper easier, but in case that won't work right - they always have backups with/via node-js..

Hells yah. To think I was planning to do everything with just PHP. Would have been a headache. Python is a life saver, but, my backend primary will always be my favourite, PHP.

BasToTheMax · November 2025

Just ~25 minutes left of work today! And then i'll start editing my video again

noob404 · November 2025

@BasToTheMax said:
Just ~25 minutes left of work today! And then i'll start editing my video again

Good luck with work on your YouTube/Twitch channel.

BasToTheMax · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@BasToTheMax said:
Just ~25 minutes left of work today! And then i'll start editing my video again

Good luck with work on your YouTube/Twitch channel.

Thanks! Not sure when my next stream is. I do prefer streaming, but I think video content is a good idea on the long term too!

bchot · November 2025

@BasToTheMax said:
Maybe you could use like a small 0.5b or 1b LLM model?
Depending on your prompt lengths, costs should be minimal then.
@TrK

yeah that is another side of it.. paying for the ability to have others check out their yapping scores.. seems like it beats the purpose. i do pay for a few servers to have people just have fun in there, and sometimes it feels like a deadend idea, cause once in a while someone will wish me personally to eat a bag-o-dicks, and then i wonder - why do i pay nearly $100 a month for the server where some newcomer would feel strong enough about being so rude? but then again i see how others are having fun and happy with the services provided, and it warms my heard and i continue this masochist way of mine..

noob404 · November 2025

@BasToTheMax said:

@noob404 said:

@BasToTheMax said:
Just ~25 minutes left of work today! And then i'll start editing my video again

Good luck with work on your YouTube/Twitch channel.

Thanks! Not sure when my next stream is. I do prefer streaming, but I think video content is a good idea on the long term too!

Yah, depends on your content. Decide accordingly.

bingbongflurp · November 2025

Thanks for another great round of black friday deals! here is my invoice if you could work your magic with the double bandwidth, thanks! Invoice #19116266

bchot · November 2025

@BasToTheMax said:

@bchot said:
m cats are working against me.. getting in front of screens, pressing my and keyboard buttons, asking for food, when they just ate.. i have to switch working browser screen to other display so that i don't break my already hurting neck to see the screen around their bodies.. they know the best time to annoy me..

Oh my cats can be pretty annoying too! Well especially one of them. He just wants to be pet then.
But I was playing once minecraft, and my cat decided to sit on my laptop. By doing that, he somehow managed to do like a weird keybind that enabled the narrator of the OS. So each time i switched tabs or programs, the narrator would read the tab/program name

oh the blind-person helper? happens on my TV sometimes when they sit on the remote.. manually takes some special key combo, but when furry butt does it - it happens like magic.. all of a sudden someone starts talking from the screen. fuf..

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bchot · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@DaDeveloper said:

@TrK said:
The counter https://let.redcode.uk has been implemented with the following changes, An auto refresh toggle and integration to scraper for allowing multiple threads to scrape without breaking any changes, one manual input is required on API level(disabled currently).

This looks awesome, giving @MrEd some competition XD

This thread is all about competition, it seems

i had to try and win the page 100 domain lastnight.. just cause i need some wins in my life.

You are the right place then.

it is very encouraging and rewarding and makes my day 🏆🏆🏆

noob404 · November 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@DaDeveloper said:

@TrK said:
The counter https://let.redcode.uk has been implemented with the following changes, An auto refresh toggle and integration to scraper for allowing multiple threads to scrape without breaking any changes, one manual input is required on API level(disabled currently).

This looks awesome, giving @MrEd some competition XD

This thread is all about competition, it seems

i had to try and win the page 100 domain lastnight.. just cause i need some wins in my life.

You are the right place then.

it is very encouraging and rewarding and makes my day 🏆🏆🏆

Keep going. Anyways, I gotta go in a few minutes. Pretty sure, you will cross my numbers in the next 12 hours or so.

bchot · November 2025

@BasToTheMax said:

@bchot said:

@DaDeveloper said:

@BasToTheMax said:

@noob404 said:

@DaDeveloper said:

@TrK said:
The counter https://let.redcode.uk has been implemented with the following changes, An auto refresh toggle and integration to scraper for allowing multiple threads to scrape without breaking any changes, one manual input is required on API level(disabled currently).

This looks awesome, giving @MrEd some competition XD

This thread is all about competition, it seems

Yes, everyone want to win the PC!

I mean this is going to be ridiculous if there are gonna be 10 people going for it XD

i hope not. but more people engage in a lot of talking means every one trying for it gets helping hand - easy to reply to an ongoing chat, thus i am here rather than replying older ones.. although now i am lagging again, 2 more pages even that i jumped to the last one a little earlier.. i am not a fast talker.. no sir..

Yep. With people talking, it's easier to jump in!

it is easier to jump in, yes, it is easier to chat due to multitude of different topics in play, but man, it is haaaard to keep up, not only with cats against you, but also each time i trail off on some afterthought in a comment, a dozen new comments pop up.. i jumped on the last page earlier, and still cannot reach last posts, and now ther's an extra page already in the list, i am not physically able to keep it up.

how do people work this? do you guys reply then page back up to see the stuff or just try to talk on the last page? i am just lagging..

noob404 · November 2025

Alright, gotta go everyone. got a busy day tomorrow. Will see yall soon. Keep the party alive.

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