Unless we’re talking about Trump’s brain, of course.

So… Riddle me this: What’s the difference between ‘states invading each other’ and ‘civil war’?

I can’t say I mind the sentiment nor the phrasing, although I suppose it’s entirely possible that we’re both tools :)

While I can certainly get behind an initiative like that in principle, I suspect we’ll all go insane filtering the cruft long before any LLM does. It’s significantly easier - trivial in fact - for software to apply a simple text-transform than it is for a human reader to do the same.

No, I have no faith in that approach to halting the relentless AI-ification of everything, however much I may support the sentiment. Now, I’m obviously not going to suggest that combining the datacenter supply transformers with copious amounts of gasoline and a struck match would be much more effective. Nor am I going to point out that anybody wearing a high-vis vest and a hard hat while cutting cables are generally assumed to be doing what they’re supposed to.That might get me in trouble.

No, I don’t think I will, thanks.

Since AMP, yes. It’s hardly a recent development.

That’s cool, but seeing as how I’m not Icelandic and my part of Scandinavia haven’t used Thorn since the Middle Ages, I think I’m just going to continue using the modern digraph like everybody else. Don’t get me wrong - I’m not conservative by nature, but I am a fan of not wasting time of fixing things that aren’t broken - that way I can reserve my energy for fixing one of the many, many things that are broken. Good grief, of all the ways one could change English, this is what people focus on? Do something about the damn homonyms! Even native speakers don’t know how to use those appropriately more than half the time. Prejudicially terminate any cretin using ‘of’ in place of ‘have’ until we can collectively forget that was ever a thing idiots did! Just about other thing would be more worthwhile.

I’d love to be a fly on the wall the first time somebody receives a job application using it. Might as well submit your application in full-on Elder Futhark (it’s totally metal!), get a really nice facial tattoo declaring your tribal allegiance (radically metal!) or maybe show up to the interview wearing clip-on cat ears with integrated LEDs (cute, or ‘moe’ for those in the know!). Employers love that shit. Comes across as professional, sane and dependable, you see.

All right, the old man rant is over. I’ll stop impotently shaking my fist at the nearest cloud now, and head back inside. I need a drink anyway. No, two drinks.

Nor should you. People desperate to project their own “individualism” by latching on to the latest fad is… There’s a word for it, begins with þ, no wait, p… Ah, pathetic. That’s it.

Edit: To be fair, Ŝan may have been to one to start this particular fad (they were at least to first I noticed doing it), so I guess they get a pass.

Still bloody annoying to read though.

Ooh, that’s though sweetheart. If the owners of those servers want you to visit, they’ll just choose another WAF than CF’s.

All zero of them.

Better range in case the parents attempt a fighting retreat towards the exit? Higher chance of punching through the pews if they try to use them as cover?

Sounds sensible.

Well, yeah. It’s sometimes referred to as ‘tact’.

Wait… Are you saying that isn’t how it’s normally done in Texas? Huh.

“Gasoline is special Russian blend, da? Should take road-trip. See all of Canada.”

No, that’s a good point. We all bloody well know there isn’t a single provider of LLM’s that aren’t sucking the entire Internet dry while gleefully ignoring robots.txt and expecting everybody else to pay the bill on their behalf, but the AI providers are getting really good at using other people IPs both to mask their identity and to evade blacklists, which is yet another abusive behavior.

But that’s beside your point. So forget the class-action lawsuit in favor of the relevant Ombudsman.

Either way, this cannot go on. Donation-driven open source projects are being driven into the ground by exploding bandwidth and hosting costs, people are being forced to deploy tools like Anubis that eats additional resources - including the resources of every legitimate user. The cumulative damage this is doing is no joke.

1. Make it the centerpiece of a new communal pissoir.
2. Charge for admittance.
3. Donate the money to Ukraine.

If this isn’t fertile grounds for a massive class-action lawsuit, I don’t know what would be.

The recent relentless AI-ification is another pain-point. People are getting sick of having to constantly fend off slob pull requests.

Okay, it’s high time for some serious regulatory intervention.

Someone’s pussy interfered with the process? That sounds sort of right, actually.

Here’s hoping it isn’t a windy day. Or raining.