This would be a bad approach, because you are essentially trying to brute force your way around a roadblock (no supported open data format) the supermarket intentionally designed. It would be easy for them to block your bot with Captchas, rate limits or IP blocking or just sue you.

You don’t need AI for that. All it takes is some standardized markup like schema.org and a discoverable price list page that can be read and understood by everyone.

We already had something similar with RSS, where you subscribe to your favorite blogs and forums, and the RSS reader on your computer would tell you which sites have new posts, so you don’t need to scan all of them each day. For some reason people stopped using RSS, and instead published their stuff (or notifications about new posts) on Facebook, twitter etc.

The same system could be adapted for (grocery-) price lists. However the big brands would never do that, because then it would be very easy to discover which products suddenly got more expensive.

Why are big media sites not accountable for Missinformation of their users? Apparently it’s not a problem to find and block copyright violations on YouTube and ban repeat offenders when Hollywood lawyers knock on the door…

Always has been. Technically the server sees no difference in what a browser does vs what a bot does: Downloading files and submitting requests.

I’m sure the reddit TOS you agreed to during signup says otherwise…

Blocking bots is hard, because with some work they can be made to look like users, down to simulating curved mouse movements from one button to the next if you are really ambitious.

In multiplayer games, having a low ping is more important than refresh rate.

Maybe Ukraine should rebuild their hospitals, schools and supermarkets above the pipeline! /s

They could both live on musk’s mars colony, the first rockets are set to start as early as 2018!

The correct translation should be “Décapiter les riches” if it was french Citizens’ initiative. /s

Nope. You can run similar models locally that are good and fast enough for most tasks.

My impression is that FB is only used by scammers and bots.

That’s a myth from the past. The Autobahns are usually packed with lorries from eastern Europe, long stretches of construction sites, detours via villages and 50km speed limits to avoid crumbling bridges and of course the everyday traffic with people driving to work.

Germany has been pumping large amounts into extending the Autobahn network in the last 30 years while ignoring rail, so now everyone wants to drive because the train is unreliable, slow and expensive.

Lol, no! The ODBC port allows readouts only, you cannot change the programming of any of the components in your car.