LLMs are not advancing enough any more. There just isn’t any more useful human generated text to train new models on. The net is already full of AI generated slop. OpenAI currently spends 2.35 USD to make 1 USD. It’s fundamentally unsustainable.

What enshittification? I haven’t noticed any dark patterns in the Bluesky app.

I’d gladly pay a subscription for a useable service than have ads plastered all over it. It’s infinitely better than the shitshow that is X.

Classic NZ

XRP at least has instant feeless payments. No consumer protection though. Some banks use it for intra-bank transfers.

This person networks

I also went into NextDNS and put blocks on the news sites I got into the habit of checking. Fuck this, I’m not even in the US.

THC and an orgasm.

Just yesterday I banned Facebook’s user agent that is supposedly only used to generate link previews. It was being extremely aggressive, making 20 requests per second. At the time I thought “I bet they’re actually building their own search index”, and here we are.

I haven’t read wired in a few years, and it looks like I haven’t missed anything.

It’s not fine. They are not archiving the internet.

I had to ban their user agent after very aggressive scraping that would have taken down our servers. Fuck this shitty behaviour.

The charges this guy is facing are insane.

Me too. I was about to post the same image.

Commodore’s management were way too incompetent for the Amiga to survive, unfortunately.

Glassdoor “may update your Profile with information we obtain from third parties”