Oh, let's be very clear - this is completely unsuitable for "The Masses".

This is network nerd territory, overriding a well-functioning system with your personal policy preferences. Doing so is implicitly taking responsibility for any breakage, and The Masses are simply not competent to do that.

Joe Random doesn't know what an autonomous system is, and a tool tip isn't going to educate them sufficiently to make an informed choice. Non-nerds are likely to shoot themselves in the foot doing stuff like this, not realizing some transitive dependency on some random Facebook thing means they're blocking something they depend on.

Put it this way - if you have normal, nontechnical users on your network doing normal human stuff, banning Meta and Alphabet ASes will almost certainly break something they use. I'm a strange old nerd, going out of my way to break social media surveillance. That is... pretty much the opposite of most casual internet users' goals.

What ^^ said, or rolling your own isn't rocket surgery, if you're so inclined.

echo '-i origin AS32934' | nc whois.radb.net 43 | grep '^route:' should get you started if you want to go that route.

Zuckerbook surveillance is opt-out.

You do so by blocking AS32934. Block AS15169 as well and you start getting closer to a decent internet.

I will never make an account, so I guess they want me to only access Reddit-posted content through LLMs.

Got it.

Now there's a blast from the past.

Those shitweasels caused a lot of pain and cost a lot of money. Darl's reward was picking scraps from the SCO trash heap, bankruptcy and then croaking of ALS.

I wonder what PJ is up to.

That's gonna be so badass next year!

Sure hope those engineers held out for a nice salary bump that should come out of the executive compensation pool, but won't.

Waiting to see that they can actually ship and I will be a customer. This looks great to me.

Who are you arguing with?

We do. I'd bet you'll find Squid somewhere in most large orgs. Lots of things can replace various parts of it, but it remains a super handy swiss army knife for dealing with most things HTTPS.

At one time, Squid was also the core of at least one big public CDN's product I know of. What they run now has diverged a ton and I heard they purged all remaining squid project code at one point, but it was recognizably descended from squid for quite a while.

It is rather expensive to run. 2x the next closest per-token, but this thing eats a lot more tokens.

Pretty sure you could burn through the quota from a $20 account in a single query if it involved a bunch of tool calls.

BSA is a sock with googley eyes glues on. Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle and other software audit enthusiasts are the hand inside.

Of course they don't want Europe breaking dependency. It is like asking your dealer if you should get clean.

One strategy is, not touch any modules until they are at least, say, 72 hours old.

Until everyone else is doing that too, then you make it 168.

It is a long-standing Texas marketing campaign. I've listened to them yammering on about everyone in California moving to Texas since the 90s, when I moved to California. I'm sure they were doing it before then.

So of course they shouted from the rooftops when Oracle moved to Texas, but became remarkably coy about Oracle then moving from Texas to Tennessee. The Space Nazi also quietly moved a ton of people out after moving them there from California.

If you're actually curious and wish to align your intuition with reality, look at real numbers. You'll find the "California drain" is real - more people have been moving from California to Texas than the reverse for a while now. But California has been growing at a rate as to make that not matter. As far as their bullshit about taxes, Texas is indeed less tax-heavy on rich people, but taxes poor and middle class people significantly higher, like all southern states. And you might like the idea of their "not zoning" zoning. Unless you buy in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, in which case I hope you can find flood insurance.

For my part, I'd encourage MAGAtypes to do their part to convince more California billionaires to move to Texas. We have too many, and they're almost all snotty, whiny, annoying little shits.

Given how crappy a lot of "official' upsampling and other AI slop is and other batch-processing errors, aspect ratio changes ruining editing, and IP licensing making the music vanish, pirated media is frequently simply better quality.

But their big problem is reinventing all the cable shenanigans people hate without the natural monopoly to enforce it. When you run a wire to someone's house, there's lock-in. Streaming removes that "loyalty'. Now add in all the constant media swapping that means you can't count on things staying in the catalog, and there's no reason to want to use any of them, other than convenience.

And my storage server is a lot more convenient than any offer I've seen from the streamers.