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AI didn’t decide anything. The humans failed to properly define the rules, and their translation model took the path most likely to succeed.

If it had been told not to use human created bots to win, it would probably have reverse engineered the game, found an exploit, and leveraged that instead. Because using the human interface to play/win the game is not the most efficient or dependable or easy to figure out method.

If there were no people, there’d be no piracy. We’re all piracy tools.

This actually sounds like he might be trying to turn Apple back into a hardware company— trimming the service portfolio while strengthening hardware options.

Of course, the last time we were there was under Gil Amelio, and THAT required bailouts from Bill Gates and Steve Jobs because the software side of things imploded.

Devices that only do what YOU want are now premium devices.

And it’s between people who we already know are morally compromised.

I prefer to call it Ontario Intelligence.

Here’s a question: when Google blurs things, do they go back and blur historical footage too? Is there even historical street view? I thought there was.

I wouldn’t call it pretty in any state.

Do flock drones cause tornadoes and hurricanes while peering in your bedroom windows?

syncspirit is a continuous file synchronization program, which synchronizes files between devices. It is built using the C++ rotor actor framework. It implements the BEP-protocol for files synchronization, or, simplistically speaking, it is a syncthing-compatible synchronization program at protocol level, which uses the syncthinginfrastructure (for global discovery and relaying).

Despite being functional, syncspirit is less feature-rich than syncthing and is still in heavy development

Any semi-recent desktop or laptop has no need of a lightweight Linux. That’s for embedded solutions, rPis, and other resource constrained systems.

Having said that, in 2026 and going forward, we may have need of lightweight desktop distributions again. 64GB storage, 4GB RAM style.

Any Linux distribution based on KDE or GNOME is not going to be lightweight. It did have the LXDE option for stripping it back somewhat, but the repos were still mostly filled with software that requires KDE or GNOME.

Mint is kind of like LxUbuntu back in the early days; still no lightweight, not even by desktop standards, but it’ll bloat up quickly if you want to get anything done with it.

I mean, Puppy Linux and DSL are still around. Anything based on Debian could claim to be stable or enterprise ready, but not lightweight.

Though Flock claims it does not utilize facial recognition technology in its cameras currently, the technology is available and the company has applied for a patent that would permit the tracking of individuals and allow searches of individual persons in its database.

A patent that would permit the tracking of individuals?

Patents give limited monopoly power over inventions; they restrict, not permit.

This indicates that Flock already has the technology to track people and just hasn’t deployed it in a manner that is usable by its customers.

Funny; I haven’t seen any change in uBlock origin on Firefox.

It has indeed occurred to me; none of those signs by itself is enough to flag the output as LLM generated. But when you put them all together, and combine it with the fact that the article itself claims everything else (the site pages, the anti-bot analysis and techniques, etc) was all generated by Claude, there’s little room left for doubt.

Nothing like passing legislation to force a collection of international communications protocols to ban sites the state doesn’t like….

I think you’re still missing something then; the way words are bolded, the way bulleted lists are placed, sentence fragment structure, using actual <h#> structure and using it correctly, the even placement of generated images; it all screams “AI”.

One of the reasons AI uses that type of structure is that it is easy to generate nested context that way in markdown, and then convert directly to HTML, and AI agents talk markdown. In fact, pretty much every long form article I’ve seen generated by AI looks exactly like this, right down to the lack of information density.

There were definitely some places that were human tweaked, but most of this was generated in whole cloth off of the logs the website generated.

I tried to read that. Then I tried skimming for the actual content. I found some, but eventually gave up. Claude can definitely tell a long-winded story.

Part of it might be how Google trained everyone to use natural language queries in their searches.

Instead of “how to fit a dog collar” does

“pet advice” +”dog collar” “guidance for new dog owners”

give you better results?

The idea is to search for a cluster of terms that are likely to be on the page you want to find, but aren’t hyper-focused like SEO pages.

I don’t; I think googlebot is paying attention to it, and AI sites get a LOT of their initial visibility and site ranking from the Google index.

Case in point: the sites I spend time on that set robots.txt to deny all bots before the LLM wave started still aren’t getting hammered with AI bot requests, while the ones that didn’t are.

I can see it on my own websites as well; I’ve got one that’s in Google’s index, and it gets a constant low volume traffic from AI bots. The ones that aren’t listed? They just get traffic from exploit scanners.