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This will be a divisive subject, because LLMs are already a divisive subject. I will confess I had a knee-jerk reaction to reading this post that probably doesn't come from a helpful place.
What you propose is technically possible, by which I mean we almost certainly possess the technology to...
Mercury
High-resolution texture downloads for Mercury, for use in Orbiter Space Flight Simulator. Based on imagery from the MDIS instrument onboard the NASA Messenger probe. See the Installation instructions for general installation help. In addition, since the original Orbiter2016 installation...
I've reached out to UCL about getting a redirect set up from the original page to https://openorbiter.space/ which is a page we (that is, the OF admin team currently) own and maintain. We can set up a page there to handle the texture mirror links, to replace the old one.
Unfortunately I got an...
Good point - I hadn't spotted the path rule only catching the download link.
I'll add the rule when I have a moment and we'll see if it makes a difference.
We can, but:
This is a request, not an enforcement; bots can and do simply ignore this and crawl the paths there anyway, and;
We want indexers such as bingbot and google's spiders to crawl the resources section for their search indexes, but these are the only kind of bot that actually pay any...
We previously had quite aggressive anti-bot preventative measures in place over the Resources section due to the choices of... certain specific individuals. Recently these were relaxed as there's inevitably quite a high number of false-positives when protection measures are cranked up too high.
I can tell you that the count is legitimate, in that this is the number of times the download link has been accessed; however, from the logs, a lot of this appears to be automated traffic.
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