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Another surprise / no-surprise. Yes — this appears to be a real and relatively new policy change by Starlink, especially affecting users who operate outside their “home country” registration region. What is happening: Starlink has added a “travel registration” / identity verification requirement for international roaming users. Multiple users report receiving warnings requiring: Failure to … Read more
“The widow and children of one of the people killed in the April shooting at Florida State University hit OpenAI with a suit on Sunday in federal court alleging that its ChatGPT program fed the shooter’s delusions and helped him plan the details of his attack on the school’s campus.” Edges and Core of Liability, … Read more
I asked ChatGPT “what’s the best SEO tool?” and a bunch of similar questions, about 1,200 times. Same prompts, same model. Here’s what came back: Ahrefs and Semrush show up in basically every answer. Both score above 88/100 on overall AI Visibility. So far, no surprise. Moz is where it gets interesting. ChatGPT knows exactly … Read more
700-word Executive Summary below AI adding to / morphing from, not replacing SEO.AI uses SEO to choose authority, truth, data-source.1 SEO defines the verifiable truth/data.2 GEO makes truth/data understandable to “AI” (LLM/RAG).3 AIO facilitates business (sales, links, lookups) via AI.—I asked AI: Regarding seo and ai — is the above accurate, concise? —- It replied: … Read more
From Nate’s summary — — Stripe is preparing for a version of the internet in which the seller no longer controls the place where buying begins. — For the first time in two decades, power in the internet economy is moving from sellers to buyers. — The old internet asked: how do we bring customers … Read more
Disabling Wi-Fi on ISP-provided hardware can be notoriously difficult because the physical radios are often tied to multiple background services, not just your primary network. If you need to guarantee absolute RF silence from a Verizon Fios router (like the G3100 or CR1000 series), simply toggling “Wi-Fi Off” in the basic settings is rarely enough. … Read more
Using AI agents “hurts the ego,” he admits. There’s something inherently diminishing about going from creator to director, from craftsman to critic. Yet he finds the trade-off worth it because coding with AI is “more fun” — the drudgery removed, leaving only the creative architecture and problem-solving. This reframing is crucial. The future of software engineering may not be … Read more
When a model trains, it is not “learning facts” the way a human does. It is adjusting billions of numbers so that: Given this sequence of tokens, what token is most likely next? That’s it. No concepts. No understanding. Just probability shaping. But here’s the magic: When trained on enough text — books, code, discussions, … Read more
“AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it. The bill had the explicit support of Apple, Google, and the major platform companies. Ask yourself why.” Here is a clean, structured extraction from your transcript — focused specifically on: States + Laws Identified 1. Louisiana 2. Utah … Read more
“Funny how nobody has pointed out that all those interfaces (Discord, Slack, etc) are owned by Big Bro and are in-stream to ‘get all your data’ just the same but without having to store it all for you (which is the Google Gmail trick). The Claw has grabbed even more for even less for Big … Read more