It's called, "vig."

And then they didn't. Windows 11 has been leaked for ages. I took half a decade to recover from Windows 8/etc. Memories of Vista, the insanity of Windows XP, all these were in consumer minds.

Windows 11 is lipstick with AI, serious intrusion, and echoes the past mistakes of Microsoft operating systems. The excuse is the TPM2 chip and processor problems, both of which are hoaxes.

The TPM2 chipsets give security to only a handful of users that actually use their features. The entire Intel processor families have bugs in them, and most consumers aren't updating their firmware to deal with Sceptre, Rowhammer-ish attacks anyway.

Instead, Microsoft is now monetizing their client base with endless advertising, telemetry information, and other ways to milk their clientele. Applications used to drive Microsoft Windows purchase, the platform that ran software you needed. FOSS and the cloud have obviated that need-- you can get good FOSS variants or cloud "office" apps easily.

But Microsoft still has the hook in the mouth of a lot of their clientele who just need tools to do work. They know that, and are frog-marching their user base. Again.

There's a lot of info available about attack mitigation (or just hungry crawlers) and how to avoid/blackhole them. Problem is, you have to have control of portions of the network stack to do them effectively.

Security through obscurity only works so long as you can be obscure, which is part of the vibe of the post. It's really stressful sometimes, depending on what's hosted.

Of the sites I don't have behind Cloudflare, the assets aren't worth anything and I truly don't care if they show up in AI. Otherwise, what's mine is mine, and not theirs.

If you can afford it, also consider Cloudflare; their bot identification is really good. You can use defaults or make your own filters. They're not the only ones that do this, but my experience with them has been positive. Much depends on your skills in how the web actually works, network + site interaction.

Their protections are cheap for the quality/speed. All of the large sites I manage are behind Cloudflare, including their DNS. Their DNS management is superior, and has interesting tricks for mixed-media sites. I don't work for either of these companies.

Get Wordfence if your site is Wordpress. The controls inside (free version) are enough to rate-limit crawlers effectively.

If you don't have Wordpress, your choices are more complex; you MUST use an IP filtering system and front-end your site with it to rate-limit everyone methodically. Crawlers eventually quite.

Many crawlers identify themselves in the get/post sequence. You have to parse those. If you understand fail2ban conceptually, it's the method used to create like-type gets that score with higher rates, and folder transversals. Accumulate your list and band them/null-route/block or whatever your framework permits.

Yes, you can blackhole through various famous time-wasters, but this also dogs your site performance. Captcha and others are becoming easier to fool, and for this reason, they're not a good strategy.

Once you decide on a filtering strategy, monitor it. Then share your IP ban list with others. Ban the entire CIDR block, because crawlers will attack using randomized IPs within their block. If you get actual customers/viewers, monitor your complaint box and put them on your exemption list.

There is a difference between "secret" and "Don't Crawl Our Site".

It's almost impossible to masquerade as a human; even throttled crawlers are easily identifiable through many different and often evil traits used.

The kleptocracy of AI (and other) crawlers is what's at issue.

The entire post is a B-Movie, save the misunderstood public danger from just crappy construction. I wonder what else they'll find.

Marvel should get the rights. Maybe a Disney movie about WaspMan, to compete with the aging and tired Spiderman franchise.

While no one was looking, apparently, there was other news, like CPB going dark and Tesla being fined nearly a quarter billion dollars in liability due to premature auto-driving feature use.

But no, wasps. Radioactive wasps.

You live in a tiny universe. See the NTIA's band plan to understand just how narrow your thinking is.

We agree that the cuts in the science budgets are heinous.

Nonetheless, the world is filled with *useful* radio.

Nothing trumps nothing. Your values, narrow as they might be, show your misunderstanding of spectrum management and usage.

There are asserted and managed radiological quiet zones. That's as good as it's going to get, until receiver discrimination improves, or external/satellite data permits improvement on reception. That's my best hope for fetching this data. Think: Dark side of the moon.

Soon the earth will be covered in satellites, a layer not unlike Asimov's Trantor.

If there's a compelling need to allocate spectrum for astroradiology, there are mechanisms for this. The post cloyingly and insanely believes their need is compelling over all of the other allocations already made.

There's a seat at the table available, but the process is well known, and their need isn't prioritized by the intense need to precisely correlate the earth's position in the universe by listening to black hole songs.

There are a lot of sites without toxic blather, where you're not the product. They behave well. Sometimes they're cranky, more often, useful and amazingly useful.

Consider the many sites surrounding the groups.io platform for starters. They're not the only ones. Some are moderated into numbness, and others are loosely moderated yet fun and useful.

Social media only devolves into the abyss when you're the product.

And your phone rats you out when you walk into most shopping centers, and many retailers. Watch your ads change; there's a reason for that.

People do resist change, and the pace of change is strong.

We're entering an era of sort-of works AI code, shitty AI code, some that is quite good and works until something breaks, a minor amount that can withstand the change of tech and especially other AI coding trends, and a parallel universe of humans coding along side these changes.

We went from machine code to primitive if highly capable languages to C to Java to Py to Go, and most languages are improvements on and compared to basic languages. All will continue to evolve.

There are still dial-up people, and some with 10gig to their desktop at home. In the middle of the bell curve, many are just trying to get by.

Already, the advanced world is starting to reject fridges with browsers, the morass of center-console touch screen drive-time options, and Reboot #6 of their favorite CGI superhero canon, not to mention fried gaming environments.

AI is stuck on what we did, not what we can do. Learn what "can do" means, and reject the premise of the captioned OP. This person leads a flock of lemmings from a cliff because the fundamentals win, just like you can't change physics.

The AI adherents that stand as lemmings prove Darwin. Again.

Not really.

"Stifling Innovation" is a dog whistle for "Stifles Shareholder Return".

Google is the progenitor of the panopticon, and its current leader is Palantir, who wants you, and everything about you, so that you can be manipulated and sold.

The EU has actual cojones to take on Google where the current extreme laissez faire 47 Gov tries to suck every puddle of cash available from crypto to Bibles to phones.

The answer is to stop being the product. EU thinking understands this. The rest of us are for sale. Hope you like your new master.

Many IT management folks need a third party consultant to ally their thinking, or even to point to when that allied thinking goes into a ditch at high speed.

Herd thinking still motivates decisions. This hits the wall of Not Invented Here decision making, requiring Nodding Heads to acknowledge the obvious and native awesome thinking (/snark) that IT management does on a day to day basis.

Circle jerking will continue, as it always has. AI is just today's trend and money burn. The name might change, the country to dodge taxes, but the game has been played for millennia.