Stumpy absolutely should take over 4Chan and merge it with his vanity blog. That's where all the memes come from anyway.

The only Windows instance running in my home is a Win7 VM, and it gets no network access.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and a human brain can only process so much sensory input.

But there is a lot of "addressable market" left - just think of all that blank space on the walls, floors and ceilings around you, failing to be distracting.

Speaking of TAM and related buzzwords,

"I think it's good to preserve optionality"

You can always spot people being promoted too quickly - they haven't learned how to operate the role's vocabulary yet.

Seems like a straightforward thing to write into your will.

In related news, most people should write a will way earlier than they usually start thinking about it. If you have enough to worry about it being taken, it is enough for people to fight about.

You absolutely should think about your digital ephemera left behind. I don't just mean encrypting your porn directory and not leaving that key in your list. If you have data you think your family or whoever should have interest in, make sure it is curated, findable, readable, etc. by the folks you expect to deal with it. Some people love digging through family cruft, but most don't. How interested do you think your folks are in your unedited directory of 40K photos?

There was enormous value to the old internet because the marginal price for access was zero.

LLMs provide a mechanism to access the same information in a radically more energy-intensive way, which was the missing mechanism to put a price on that value.

A price tag means the data has to be made into a rivalrous good or you can't sell it. Then the old data has to be made unavailable.

Just more entries in a long tradition of scamming your neighbors.

Yes, it is a major concern, and the reason is how US liability law works.

Specifically, foreseeability.

In the US, instead of proscribing how products have to be made, in most categories you can sell whatever you want, but are exposed to liability if things go horribly wrong. We expect lawsuits to police the market.

So, you're suing Ford because you got your tongue stuck in the carburetor. One way to do that is to show that Ford should have reasonably foreseen that you'd stick your tongue in there and done something to prevent that.

Of course, Ford doesn't want to be sued, so they do what they can to avoid it. Like sticking NO USER-LICKABLE PARTS INSIDE stickers on the carb.

Trying to block explosives-howtos is OpenAI's 'no licking' sticker. It isn't going to stop a determined tongue, but it might stop a lawsuit.

Hm. So folks who were small kids when the US ramped up a massive security panic, kids during a period of economic upheaval, Teens during our global experiment with raising children by cell phone, and are now trying to learn how to adult in another brewing economic mess, with creeping fascism and "AI" weirdness distorting everything.

All while being forced to go to schools bitter shitbag losers like to shoot up.

When you're powerless in an environment that is constantly changing and frequently hostile, it does things to you.

Not sure where you live.

Trump either does not understand that or thinks that USA citizens are too stupid to understand.

He understands it quite well.

It does two things:

- serves as a regressive national sales tax, shifting the tax burden to poorer people.

- Gives him a big stick to fuck around with for extortion, punishing people he wants to hurt, and generally making him feel powerful.p. It is an Americanized version of VAT plus DMA. Instead of health care and social guard rails, you get to share your ID before buying porn and pay for the health care of your masters.

My Newsblur install is my morning newspaper.

It is also a great filing cabinet - since most of my sources of new info flow through it, I use it all the time to find that thing I vaguely remember but can't place.

Your reaction is what's stupid.

You misunderstand the law, funnel the resulting frustration through an Ayn Rand filter, and then ignore the very real fascist takeover currently in progress to whine about nonexistent restrictions on your use of your robot friend.

This is why we can't have nice things.

They are still flailing for a distraction from Donnie's pedophile bestie.

If this weren't going to end in martial law, it would be a lot funnier.

Yeah, this is all fairly basic stuff. I don't do Wordpress, and I won't do CloudFlare.

I have a fairly custom stack, which is a liability a lot of the time, but can be useful in cases like this. Being different than the herd means they're spending most of their time on attacking their mitigations instead of whatever weird shit I'm up to.

even throttled crawlers are easily identifiable

Please share the secret. Currently about 70% of the traffic to some sites I run is from badly behaving robots puppeting residential IPs.

About the only trick that works fairly well is hidden poison links (effectively, "click here to ban your IP"). Some robot farms coordinate the search space, so you have to leave them all over, and they're using huge amounts of IPs, so you'll still get beat to shit.

What is your magic sauce?