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Think twice. Cloudflare’s “prove you are human” wall is not a neutral speed bump; it is an involuntary inspection booth wedged between readers and the web. Their own Turnstile privacy addendum says the system processes “client-side signals” including IP address, TLS fingerprint, User-Agent header, sitekey, and origin, and that the same addendum applies to Cloudflare’s … Read more
A great use of AI and open-source. Deeply, thoroughly open-sourced in fast, solid RUST language, https://github.com/storytold/photocraft is clean-room reimplementation — recreation of the workflows, muscle memory, panels, formats, and habits without copying Adobe’s proprietary code/assets. In other words: not “piracy,” but far more humiliating: A public dashing of its empire as mechanically reproducible. Adobe is … Read more
It is said that AI is only: ‘based upon your “training” (which is: discerning token-interconnection likelihood), show what is the next most likely token?’ That is by definition recall. If you “trained” AI solely on the single token “ai is ai” then its answer could only ever be “is” or “ai” or “is ai” or … Read more
Per-product. Per-size. Per-color. Per-SKU. SDS/MSDS obligations in the US and EU generally attach to the chemical mixture/formulation and hazard classification, not every retail SKU, so different sizes usually do not require separate SDSs if the contents are identical; size mostly affects labeling/shipping/storage rules, not the SDS itself. Different colors only need separate SDSs if pigments/additives … Read more
“…so maybe there’s more to it than They’re admitting…” — seems likely, given all else we’ve learned lately. Interesting observation from the guest: “You’re either pro-human or anti-human, and the divide is becoming much more pronounced.”
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
“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
Parallel Proof: AI Hallucinations and the Political “Grift of Gab”. Hidden Rule: Systems That Reward Confidence Produce Endless Nonsense. Introduction Recent research into large language models has revealed a structural reason why artificial intelligence systems sometimes produce confident but incorrect statements. In simple terms, many AI systems are trained in environments that reward producing an … Read more