I just planned a holiday with MCP servers. It was legitimately massively better than calculating everything manually, and I'm normally OK planning holidays, but this assistance just helped me do everything to a much higher quality.

If too many bots are hitting your website, then shut it down and open an MCP server. I had to use an obscure Japanese service to get the coverage I needed.
This is a massive opportunity.

In other areas, all of the hobby websites I've used for decades are closing public access and going subscription only. This is incredibly frustrating. Before we only had sites like Facebook and Myspace being anti social. Now it's justifiable to wall off any site!

So what I'm having to do is to
    pay for a subscription, manually scrape to break the data silo to get the data back in my hand because
interoperability is breaking down everywhere!

Some LLMs give special access to sites in their corporation, so I have to use those particular LLMs to get info I'm interested in. An example of this are the Alibaba sites. That is also really annoying.

As if all this wasn't enough, I also have to deal with Geoblocking from hyperscalers here in Asia.

There are walls going up absolutely everywhere these days. It's a scale of destruction of the open web we haven't seen in a long time.

My guess is that something programmatic will come out of this eventually, but until then there's going to be a lot of meatproxy work going on and flying 'You bot!' insults everywhere, bans etc.

What surprises me is that everyone is so busy blocking they can't see the financial opportunity.
Also, I would have expected people to discuss how they're getting around bot blocks through human assisted browsing. Quite the attention tax.

What exactly are oyu supposed to do about it?

If the answer is _nothing_. Is it better not to know?

Just simply banning doesn't really show much understanding into what it's like to be a kid.
I was talking to a young fellow about the Roblox chat control. He told me he lost touch with many friends.
It's their life.
So it needs the other end of this to connect up as well.
A stick without the carrot isn't going to work as well as having both.

This is only a very small beta test, only involving a smaller rival.

How can we stop people from getting a bot to do something and then hiding away?

No. That only encrypts while in transit so others cannot listen in. Whoever owns the DNS server still can log all information about the requests once it gets to their server.

According to reddit, users are approaching this by:

1) researching fake ID

2) https://github.com/stoatchat

3) Matrix / Element

4) Mumble

5) Some going to Slack, apparently

Should painting also be criminalized?

One country's corruption is another one's opportunity.

Ryanair is a meme for this. They also want to make people stand while flying and charge for toilet access. They are hated for leading the charge in enshittification. This latest stunt could be part of their marketing strategy.

I bought one of their mattress toppers for Burning Man figuring that it's much more efficient to chill a bed than chill a space. However, setting the thing up required an internet connection. By using my phone as a hotspot, I was just barely able to bridge the gap so the mattress would connect to the internet. But then it also required a Bluetooth connection from the same phone to the bed, to actually turn it on, and the bridging-the-gap location was just outside Bluetooth range. What a completely frustrating, overengineered piece of crap. How about a simple couple of buttons to set the temperature?

Of course there's no easy way to use a screenshot directory that isn't in OneDrive. That's great.

Geographical mobility used to be much easier. In the age of credit scores and limited housing, it is extremely difficult to find a landlord who will admit you without a job, and much harder to find a job that will hire you without already being local.

Haha, no.

Then next step, tax the shit out of US companies who outsource jobs that should be done by Americans. This nonsense has gone on too long and it's killing us.

That's not good: https://develop.trustedcomputinggroup.org/ is only a default web server info page, and a mismatched SSL cert. Not reassuring.

Don't see any utilities there for reading my TPM chip. I don't trust these chips at all, seem like something to put other people's data on and keep hidden from me, even though it's my machine. Do not want.