I find it's very good a specific, bounded questions like you asked, because all it has to do is search for specific matching information; it's when it has to search through a lot of data that may be conflicting and decide what to use is where it starts falling apart.

What could go wrong? It's not like AI ever tried to blackmail a user, accidentally wiped out lots of file, hallucinates, etc.; so there is no reason not to ogive it access to your real world financial accounts.

With all the great financial advice on Redit's various forums, coupled with lots of great crypto investment discussions on other forums, you'd miss out on ways to GET RICH QUICK.

Politicians have to come up with some excuse to protect their auto industry donors and voters. Spying is simply the peripheral issue that lets them come up with a catchy soundbite while enacting protectionist measures. While such monitoring is an issue, this doesn't really address the core problem that your car phones home and stores a lot of data about what you have done and where.

Which is the beauty of competition. If they can migrate to a platform that costs less and keep their existing base, grow it and make more money from a different site, that's great; and SubStack will have to adapt or die.

The other question is what happens when these cheaper sites see the revenue they generate for their users? Will they decide they want a bigger slice.

It's not a tax, but simply a charge to be on the platform, just like any consignment style shop gets a cut for the sale. It costs money to run the site, and tehy need some way to do it for free. The numbers may seem large, but someone paying a million in a year to substack is taking home 9 million. 10% is not a bad deal; but calling it a tax makes is somehow seem evil. If the writers can find a better deal elsewhere that generates the same revenue for less, more power to them; that is the beauty of competition.

As for the "storage and network access cosst are low" argument, a product is priced on value, not cost. Generating large readerships that make a lot of money for an other has value beyond the actual costs to the company that does that; and if you buy the costs determine price argument than charging $10 for a newsletter that costs nearly nothing for the nth copy means the writer should also charge a lot less as well. After all, why shoul they make a million dolalrs for something that cost them mayber a few hundred thousand (assuming 2000 work hours at say 100/hour) to produce.

These are purpose built single occupant DCs. It doesn't get any stickier than that. Google doesn't even visit their DCs when a server fails. They just power it off remotely and power up a warm spare.

Which is why you have to ensure what you measure actually produces desired outcomes and not create perverse incentives. Reminds me of teh Dilbert cartoon where the PHB announces a bug bounty and Wally says “I’m writing myself a new minivan”

Odd, the ones I have been in to do work on "my" racks, it wasn't uncommon for me to see nobody at all (not even a guard) the whole time.

Just row after row of servers doing their thing. Sometimes I would see the manager or a tech updating something.

Assuming that no plant ever goes offline for any reason and that there will be no other growth in Kenya ever.

That costs money. They were hoping the locals would foot that bill for them.

How many data centers in your immediate area? Are they the modern high density data centers with thousands of GPU units per rack or the old school 4U's in a rack supporting a few websites kind of data center?

As for employment, when is the last time you saw a data center that was bustling with human activity once construction and move-in was finished?

That was a joke! backhoes breaking fiber is part of the natural order.

That's why you should always carry a length of fiber with you. If you ever get stranded with no cell service, you can just bury the length of fiber in the dirt. When the backhoe guy comes along to break it, ask him for a lift.

Typically when using those tools, not every "issue" found is actually an issue.

It does nicely illustrate that AI may do a deeper scan, but not necessarily a better one.

There are existing rules based scanners for websites. Running one on any typical site will easily spit out more than 100 flagged issues. Some "consultants" will dutifully hand that report over and call it a day, but if you actually go through them, most if not all aren't even actual security flaws. Yes, if I POST data that includes the correct username and password, it will grant me access just as if I had filled in the login form. So what? Yes, if I give an invalid account number, it returns a page with (non-)error code 200. The page says "Access denied".

That isn't to say the AI tool is bad, just that it represents an EVOlution, not a REVOlution.

How will the automated ditch digger be sure to find and break the fiber cable?