I found this an interesting view on the AI scraping and Hoovering everything disease.
This view focuses on the overhead and costs that such hoovering places on our packet carrying infrastructure.
"The hiQ Decision Legalized Infrastructure Theft - We Need a Federal Fix"
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Heute dann gegen 14:45 Uhr doch noch #rausgeschafft, sodass ich kurz vor Ladenschluß bei der Bike-Zone Baden war, um ein Velorücklicht mit gelben Seitenmarkern (ja, aus Amiland 🤓) zu kaufen, das ich eigentlich nicht brauche, dort aber deutlich günstiger war als sonstwo. Das war ein guter Motivator für eine #Radtour
Hab ein Dreirad von VAn Raan zu verkaufen
https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/dreirad-easy-rider-sitz-dreirad-von-vanraam-mit-unterstuetzung/3224068456-217-3107
Thank you to the kind person behind the anonymous account who keeps DMing/forwarding me screenshots of interesting Twitter posts about my work a few times a year, but then never responds. You know who you are and I truly thank you for your service! 🙏
As much as I appreciate it, unfortunately I can not go back to that place [if this is partially meant to lure me back] and I'd much rather wish for people still there due to various network effects and social pressures to organize them…
Today was mostly me experimenting with unusual network topologies…
If I patch this to this, then that to that, then _that_ can reach that and then the router can see out of the window…
Omnicom announces a restructuring following its $13.5B acquisition of IPG, including plans to cut ~4,000 jobs globally (Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/agencies/omnicom-to-cut-4000-jobs-retire-fcb-ddb-and-mullenlowe/
UK nerds get used to employing counter-measures as companies react to our unworkable legislation.
"Imgur Geo-Blocked the UK, So I Geo-Unblocked My Entire Network" – Oscar Molnar
https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/imgurukproxy/
Another thing I've learned debugging WiFi issues: having router sitting on the floor is a bad idea. How bad can it be? 10dBm bad.
Raising the router off the floor by just 30cm significantly improved network coverage, including on the floor below it!