To use a tech metaphor, think of how many viable phone brands were in a phone store in 2005, and how much brand diversity you see now. Same goes for PC/laptop brands, even tablets. Money moves to find early leaders and funds them, until it's no longer profitable. Then there's a consolidation period, and monopolization of supply chains.

Although there's specific hardware underneath, AI is an app. What are the lifecycle of apps? Take a look at early office app consolidation. Anyone remember dBase? When Oracle's SQL had maybe three viable competitors? How many early cloud hosting facilities were bought up, and made into consolidated platforms? Does anyone remember Sprint, MCI, AT&T, and the wars that lead to Level 3, who is also now gone? Rackspace?

Training source data is one problem, evolving AI APIs are another. Interlinking intelligence still another. Hype for the sake of someone buying your early terms sheet, still another.

The lack of QA, model integrity, highly publicized hallucinations, lack of boundaries and effective controls, specific training data revelations, all these seem like opportunity to do better than the next competitor, except they fail, too. Dump trucks full of cash is a hallowed way of burning money to find longer-term returns.

The enshitifcation point, where good work turns into creating only vaguely iterative successes seems closer than it should.

These aren't bubbles, they're cycles we've seen before, whose energy burst like a bubble. Then we moved on.

Just like sitting on a jet, where I tear off the cover of the airline magazine and cover the screen, I'd do the same thing to a fridge.

But Samsung as a brand left a long time ago from this household.

I use various browser plugins for the same reason, and delete selected cookies from my cache because they're not paying rent.

Fridge ads? If they were the best rated and most reliable, I'd still tape something over the screen. Billboards are bad enough. Not in my kitchen.

Crossed them off the list.

It's not being a Luddite to want LESS FEATURES. The Keep It Simple, Stupid principle seems to be greatly ignored today, at the peril of manufacturers. Build something simple and reliable, and they will come.

Power will be used, but that was obvious. It's the TYPE of power that will be used, its sources, and its sustainability.

Solar infrastructure, along with wind, tidal, hydro, and other forms don't alter the weather in the same way that fossil fuels have. Fossil fuels have also altered the geopolitical climate, creating vast empires of wealth that want to sustain themselves.

The environmental harm is undeniable. BMW wants to please their clientele, no doubt, but they've also been unable to innovate away from ICE tech. Their offerings are weak, and they have no other real competitive advantage beyond their marque.

Their marque isn't going to sustain them unless they innovate-- and FAST.

It's called, "vig."

And then they didn't. Windows 11 has been leaked for ages. I took half a decade to recover from Windows 8/etc. Memories of Vista, the insanity of Windows XP, all these were in consumer minds.

Windows 11 is lipstick with AI, serious intrusion, and echoes the past mistakes of Microsoft operating systems. The excuse is the TPM2 chip and processor problems, both of which are hoaxes.

The TPM2 chipsets give security to only a handful of users that actually use their features. The entire Intel processor families have bugs in them, and most consumers aren't updating their firmware to deal with Sceptre, Rowhammer-ish attacks anyway.

Instead, Microsoft is now monetizing their client base with endless advertising, telemetry information, and other ways to milk their clientele. Applications used to drive Microsoft Windows purchase, the platform that ran software you needed. FOSS and the cloud have obviated that need-- you can get good FOSS variants or cloud "office" apps easily.

But Microsoft still has the hook in the mouth of a lot of their clientele who just need tools to do work. They know that, and are frog-marching their user base. Again.

There's a lot of info available about attack mitigation (or just hungry crawlers) and how to avoid/blackhole them. Problem is, you have to have control of portions of the network stack to do them effectively.

Security through obscurity only works so long as you can be obscure, which is part of the vibe of the post. It's really stressful sometimes, depending on what's hosted.

Of the sites I don't have behind Cloudflare, the assets aren't worth anything and I truly don't care if they show up in AI. Otherwise, what's mine is mine, and not theirs.

If you can afford it, also consider Cloudflare; their bot identification is really good. You can use defaults or make your own filters. They're not the only ones that do this, but my experience with them has been positive. Much depends on your skills in how the web actually works, network + site interaction.

Their protections are cheap for the quality/speed. All of the large sites I manage are behind Cloudflare, including their DNS. Their DNS management is superior, and has interesting tricks for mixed-media sites. I don't work for either of these companies.

Get Wordfence if your site is Wordpress. The controls inside (free version) are enough to rate-limit crawlers effectively.

If you don't have Wordpress, your choices are more complex; you MUST use an IP filtering system and front-end your site with it to rate-limit everyone methodically. Crawlers eventually quite.

Many crawlers identify themselves in the get/post sequence. You have to parse those. If you understand fail2ban conceptually, it's the method used to create like-type gets that score with higher rates, and folder transversals. Accumulate your list and band them/null-route/block or whatever your framework permits.

Yes, you can blackhole through various famous time-wasters, but this also dogs your site performance. Captcha and others are becoming easier to fool, and for this reason, they're not a good strategy.

Once you decide on a filtering strategy, monitor it. Then share your IP ban list with others. Ban the entire CIDR block, because crawlers will attack using randomized IPs within their block. If you get actual customers/viewers, monitor your complaint box and put them on your exemption list.

There is a difference between "secret" and "Don't Crawl Our Site".

It's almost impossible to masquerade as a human; even throttled crawlers are easily identifiable through many different and often evil traits used.

The kleptocracy of AI (and other) crawlers is what's at issue.

The entire post is a B-Movie, save the misunderstood public danger from just crappy construction. I wonder what else they'll find.

Marvel should get the rights. Maybe a Disney movie about WaspMan, to compete with the aging and tired Spiderman franchise.

While no one was looking, apparently, there was other news, like CPB going dark and Tesla being fined nearly a quarter billion dollars in liability due to premature auto-driving feature use.

But no, wasps. Radioactive wasps.

You live in a tiny universe. See the NTIA's band plan to understand just how narrow your thinking is.

We agree that the cuts in the science budgets are heinous.

Nonetheless, the world is filled with *useful* radio.

Nothing trumps nothing. Your values, narrow as they might be, show your misunderstanding of spectrum management and usage.

There are asserted and managed radiological quiet zones. That's as good as it's going to get, until receiver discrimination improves, or external/satellite data permits improvement on reception. That's my best hope for fetching this data. Think: Dark side of the moon.

Soon the earth will be covered in satellites, a layer not unlike Asimov's Trantor.

If there's a compelling need to allocate spectrum for astroradiology, there are mechanisms for this. The post cloyingly and insanely believes their need is compelling over all of the other allocations already made.

There's a seat at the table available, but the process is well known, and their need isn't prioritized by the intense need to precisely correlate the earth's position in the universe by listening to black hole songs.

There are a lot of sites without toxic blather, where you're not the product. They behave well. Sometimes they're cranky, more often, useful and amazingly useful.

Consider the many sites surrounding the groups.io platform for starters. They're not the only ones. Some are moderated into numbness, and others are loosely moderated yet fun and useful.

Social media only devolves into the abyss when you're the product.