I have a feeling this is less about unauthenticated users than it is about preventing AI scraping. Nothing they can do about Google/Gemini - but everyone else is getting cut off.

A thousand outlets shouting into their megaphones drown out the independent voice. That is censorship by avalanche.

You can still find a blog or a Substack if you already know where to look. That does not change the fact that the high-authority cluster—owned by a short list of billionaires and running coordinated or mutually reinforcing framing—dominates the backlink graph, the search rankings, and what institutions treat as the default. Identical or near-identical language has already been documented across local markets (Sinclair must-runs and similar chain practices). The same dynamic scales online: major outlets link to one another and to a narrow set of favored sources, so an ordinary post starts with near-zero inbound authority. The text stays public; the attention does not arrive.

“I don’t read those papers, so I’m not censored” only works if censorship means a gate that blocks your personal browser. It does not address what happens when the megaphones are concentrated and the ranking systems reward that concentration. The independent voice is not deleted. It is rendered practically inaudible. That is the mechanism.

I think it is a proposed solution to bit-rot, not to failing device blocks. As such, why not, but it's gonna degrade the writing space by 20% or something, no ?

Being called a bird brain brings on a whole new meaning now...

What the hell is the differnce between an electric field and a magnetic field? I thought they were one in the same. Did high-school science let me down?

Also UBI programs get you just enough to survive. Not to have an interesting life with projects, hobbies, etc... In other words, shut the fuck up or we are gonna starve you.

Well, if the US was a functioning country (or its predecessor), they would have hanged the crew of the White Lion in 1619 and freed its cargo of prisoners meant to be sold as slaves. It boggles the mind that this wasn't obvious, even at the time.

Oh shit, this reminds me I have written a lot of 32-bit software that will rollover in 2038. Fortunately I retire the year before that...

You sure it's a Windows problem and not a mouse+bluetooth problem ? I had one that I hated because it forgot to click or move sometimes (particularly tiny motions). USB mouse or bust for me.

Yes. I never left X11 because my tries with Wayland showed that remote desktop via ssh+vnc didn't work and I need that daily. Maybe it works now or there is some suitable replacement but I never bothered as I don't see what problem Wayland is trying to solve and I don't need a faster screen.

To this day I still haven't managed to improve my coding with AI.
When trying to do something I know nothing about, it just gives me standard boilerplate examples, but I could find them by myself just reading the doc.
When learning very obscure or uncommon protocols, it is no better than me.
When dealing with a large codebase (big makefile or cmake), you can't upload the whole thing to chatgpt, so how do you tell it to refactor something ? Maybe I'm showing my age but I don't get it. Maybe it works with the kernel because the entire code is publicly available, but for a private codebase ?

Yeah, well, about that... I just bought an oldish electric car, so my first thought was to go update the firmware(s). On the manufacturer's website it just says 'no longer supported' and doesn't even tell me what the last version numbers were. Damn lazy fucks.

Eh, now that's no way to talk. It's much better to keep them busy in a Math Dept than to institutionalize them !

In side and outside the windshield, yes. But also in the air outside if there is some condensation. And also on you eyeglasses if they are a bit dirty or even just old. And even in your fucking eyes if you have various kinds of problems in the liquid inside. My wife does and cannot drive at night anymore, all she sees are tiny shiny dots when there are bright headlights the other way.

I saw that too, looking closer it turns out to be 2 halves of a UK flag, as mounted on some Mini as an option. And yes, they look like arrows pointing the wrong way. Damn stupid. Pic here (sorry for the amazon link)