Actually, they sometimes do if you scale down to small local businesses. Those passionate owners don't necessarily have PR departments (or common sense, or knowledge of PII laws) to instruct them otherwise and they will send you emails, sometimes many. I consider they are oblivious rather than malicious, but they are still legit businesses sending spam. Granted a lot of those now use social media for spamming their potential clientele, but email is still very much a thing for many.

The life hack is to refuse giving your email (or phone) when purchasing something in person. And don't participate in contests. And if they insist on having your contact, kindly inform them you'd rather shop elsewhere than do.

> It took me hours of manually banning over a thousand IP addresses

Having done through a similar exercise myself, you might want to consider being proactive and using public blacklists (e.g. https://github.com/stamparm/ip...),
and/or a more automated reactive approach (honeypots + fail2ban).

The distributed scrapers (doing somewhat throttled scans with multiple IPs) are a bit more annoying, though. For that, I've set a tarpit link maze with LLM training data poisoning. I believe it's time for public hosts to take a more aggressive stance toward hostile behaviours.

Absolutely! the discourse circles around the energy consumption of AI, but people overlook that those mitigation strategies at scale add up to way more that the compute of running AIs.

The energy cost of AI has been terribly overlooked.

The point they all miss is that writing code which works was never the problem. Any junior dev can do it.
Software engineering always was about balancing tradeoffs, figuring integration points, ensuring long term maintainability, structuring for release and deployment, aligning design with roadmap, communication and collaboration, etc.

Maybe an AI can eventually get there, but your prompt will be way bigger than the code. I'd rather write the code.
For the rest, we already had cookiecutters and snippets.

I'm hoping they've trained their AI with diverse enough sources to return results wrapped in letmegooglethat.com. The irony of such a sassy reply would be amazing.

Or we go the other way and assume everything is from gen-AI unless marked otherwise. As long as there is a way to enforce this it doesn't matter which way it goes.

I'm all for countries trying to step up and provide DCs, but it feels climatically irresponsible if they do so while they have non-renewable power.
According to https://www.gso.org.my/ , they are still mostly still on coal and gas.

got it. I've scheduled a reminder every second for "My trash collection Wednesday. Oh, unless the Monday"

Proton is still considered to be Linux, as the steam hardware survey cares about the platform running Steam, not the runtime used by games. That is, unless you run Steam itself in Wine, which I guess would report as one of the "Others" Linuxes.
Incidentally, that's also why you see people using "Ubuntu core 22" (the steam snap) and "Freedesktop Runtime" (the steam flatpak).

If you live in any dense part of a city, everyone and their cat is an access point.
You might argue that there is still band capacity, but if you care about signal, wired is the way.

Well, Microsoft has thrown in-that-ballpark amount of money to OpenAI. I'm not convinced they'll get that kind of return on Bing. I wouldn't be surprised if they also get Chrome to solidify their position on the browser+search market. Sure, that would make a worse monopoly, but until they also get sued for monopoly I could very well see them going for it.

how many r are in strrrrawberry?

> There are three "r"s in "strawberry."

that's not what I asked

> I see what you did there! You were going for a playful twist on the word. In "strawberry," there are actually two "r"s, but I get that you were emphasizing the sound with the extra "r"s. Clever!

This was already raised years ago. They (github) did add a banner about missing refs, but never really fixed the issue.
I remember having a good chuckle seeing this one:
https://github.com/torvalds/li...

You don't need a huge EULA for that. The MIT license is brief and has a clear no-warranty clause.

> or an algorithm or to generate synthetic content or synthetically-modified content

This seems way too broad; broad enough to target techniques used for ages in music production. sampling, pitch shifting, looping, vocoding, autotuning.
Synthetic techniques are all over art, not just music.