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For 12 hours out of every day? :D

No, because Apple and Google aren’t providing third parties access to the Internet through your devices.

Well, it was inevitable.

Yes. Yes, they are.

I’m a computer scientist and got into it before it became popular.

I suck at programming and have never labeled myself as a programmer. I write software to solve problems and know my way around the SDLC, but there’s a LOT of CS work out there that isn’t being a code monkey.

The shame was the number of people who went to college specifically to learn how to write software that can now be generated by AI, at the quality level generated by AI. Those jobs are now gone. Being a software analyst, integrator, architect, security engineer, information systems analyst, data scientist, etc? Thise are still in high demand, as are programmers who are subject matter experts or can lead a team.

AI didn’t decide anything. The humans failed to properly define the rules, and their translation model took the path most likely to succeed.

If it had been told not to use human created bots to win, it would probably have reverse engineered the game, found an exploit, and leveraged that instead. Because using the human interface to play/win the game is not the most efficient or dependable or easy to figure out method.

This actually sounds like he might be trying to turn Apple back into a hardware company— trimming the service portfolio while strengthening hardware options.

Of course, the last time we were there was under Gil Amelio, and THAT required bailouts from Bill Gates and Steve Jobs because the software side of things imploded.

Devices that only do what YOU want are now premium devices.

And it’s between people who we already know are morally compromised.

I prefer to call it Ontario Intelligence.

I wouldn’t call it pretty in any state.

Any semi-recent desktop or laptop has no need of a lightweight Linux. That’s for embedded solutions, rPis, and other resource constrained systems.

Having said that, in 2026 and going forward, we may have need of lightweight desktop distributions again. 64GB storage, 4GB RAM style.

Any Linux distribution based on KDE or GNOME is not going to be lightweight. It did have the LXDE option for stripping it back somewhat, but the repos were still mostly filled with software that requires KDE or GNOME.

Mint is kind of like LxUbuntu back in the early days; still no lightweight, not even by desktop standards, but it’ll bloat up quickly if you want to get anything done with it.

I mean, Puppy Linux and DSL are still around. Anything based on Debian could claim to be stable or enterprise ready, but not lightweight.

Though Flock claims it does not utilize facial recognition technology in its cameras currently, the technology is available and the company has applied for a patent that would permit the tracking of individuals and allow searches of individual persons in its database.

A patent that would permit the tracking of individuals?

Patents give limited monopoly power over inventions; they restrict, not permit.

This indicates that Flock already has the technology to track people and just hasn’t deployed it in a manner that is usable by its customers.

Nothing like passing legislation to force a collection of international communications protocols to ban sites the state doesn’t like….

Part of it might be how Google trained everyone to use natural language queries in their searches.

Instead of “how to fit a dog collar” does

“pet advice” +”dog collar” “guidance for new dog owners”

give you better results?

The idea is to search for a cluster of terms that are likely to be on the page you want to find, but aren’t hyper-focused like SEO pages.

I don’t; I think googlebot is paying attention to it, and AI sites get a LOT of their initial visibility and site ranking from the Google index.

Case in point: the sites I spend time on that set robots.txt to deny all bots before the LLM wave started still aren’t getting hammered with AI bot requests, while the ones that didn’t are.

I can see it on my own websites as well; I’ve got one that’s in Google’s index, and it gets a constant low volume traffic from AI bots. The ones that aren’t listed? They just get traffic from exploit scanners.

Why does the phrase “Anthropic’s biolab” make me immediately think of zombie movies?

No?

I’m younger than those people and I still remember using Open Directory, HotBot, MetaSearch, AltaVista and the rest.

For that matter, I remember the Internet before the World Wide Web when we used WAIS, Archie, Veronica and Jughead to search FTP and Gopher sites.

“Old Google” to me ended around the time they merged with Double Click. It’s got significantly worse three times since then.

They don’t—but they DO use search index data to figure out where to crawl.