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I think there are a few options coming around federation of repos - like extension of forgejo, and then there's a newish player called Tangled i think, etc. I'm no expert, but that is something i would like as well...and i'm pretty sure that we are not alone in that desire.
Yep, which is what i believe one manifestation of SEO spam - a bunch of crap that points to each other, further reenforcing its "authority"/"validity" in the eyes of a conventional search engine, and now agentic crawlers, etc.
So, the snake oil salesman in me immediately wonders if this will become the new landscape for spam....It might go something like the following...
1. Establish domain names and relevant cloudflare account including the monetization gateway (associated rules, etc.).
2. Then host a ton of crap content across a wide swath of topics...not even decent quality...merely a step above old school style SEO keywords...just enough low quality "honey" to attract the AI flies, and their high volumes of traffic.
3. Charge very low amounts to ensure the AI "visitors" won't balk programmatically at the cost.
4. Then wait for lots of AI traffic (attracted by the "honey")...and then profit!
Obviously lots of holes in the above...but, unless I'm missing something, it feels like more spam headed our way (because the AI agents will swallow up all the crap content created only for triggering usage costs)...which is a shame. Because while I'm not sure about this overall approach of this gateway, I certainly would welcome web authors to get paid something for their efforts! If cloudflare can help achieve this for web authors, then I'm in favor! Of course, the cynic in me also recognizes that by being the middleman, cloudflare does stand to gain whether the volume of traffic is for good content or spam crap. Is cloudflare a new type of bank now?
Must think happy thoughts! The internet feels darker every day, but, must think happy thoughts!
I hear ya! But technically http status 402 has set that expectation of micropayments at the http level for quite a long time (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#402) ...but little to no one has done much of anything with it...and so now, this foundation and cloudflare seem to be doing something with it. Whether it will be good or not of course remains to be seen. So, not a new concept, merely a new implementation.
I love finding ideas and inspiration from scripts, commands, and especially methods....like that placing of a separate .env file for each little context...yes, yes, i know its common for apps/projects...but not something i would have thought for this pen test context....and so i like it!
I see mention of PDFs both in the article as well as the repo...But i think over the decades that I've been working and applied for roles - almost exclusively in corporate america...I've only been asked for a PDF once! Every other time, everyone wants a Word doc (.doc/.docx). So...is there now some growing HR groups who are asking for PDFs instead? Or, is that if someone asked you for a PDF instead of a Word doc, then that's a signal that said HR groups are employing some sort of agentic review of one's resume (I mean, beyond the conventional ATS systems)??
> ...I believe we shouldn’t index on novelty- we should index on impact...
I was about to reply that hey, i like novelty...but, then thought about it, and agree with you! I think you're totally right! What i *really* like is the impact that novelty might have. So, novelty might merely be one of several vehicles to convey impact/value!
A little bit of a nitpick, but wouldn't that be a picometer instead of angstrom node? Like, isn't a "pico-" the next magnitude smaller than "nano-", or am i wrong?
Otherwise, that chip tech sounds really awesome - at least for the future!
You did not come off as argumentative at all; no worries! Apologies if my reply was defensive! :-)
Your point about folks perhaps framing it as generational as opposed to class is quite interesting. I wonder if maybe in the past both of these dimensions (generation and class) overlapped alot more...and now, maybe things skew more towards one generation being more of one class, and so maybe data either getsd hidden, or in many cases the folks in one generation happen to be members of a specific class level? I ask this as a rhetorical question, and not a statement, because i have no idea on a wide scale. For example, if maybe a few generations ago, there were class conflicts across the different generational categories...but nowadays, most (but not all) older folks might identify more with only one side of the class aspect? Anyway, all questions that can't be answered without tons of data and evidence gathering! Good discussion!!!
Yeah, i agree that there might be older folks also fearing AI - i'm one of them! :-)
As to your point about likely being more due to material conditions rather than age, perhaps you're right....but, then again, on average I'd say the older generation tends to have better material conditions/positions, tends to have at least some savings (maybe retirement, or at least will have more solvent social security, etc.?)...than say young folks who started graduating college from around the great recession to about now? So, maybe we're both right???
Another part of my nostalgia with those old workstations (besides the core OS) was the desktop environment, i think CDE or motif or something like that. Something about the look and feel of that DE i always thought was cool!
Yes, you're not at all wrong! However my goal is not to definitively 100% know the exact differences between the BSDs...i merely wanted to seek out a quick/easy starting point (the very high level diffs)...so that i can start *somewhere* and hopefully avoid my paralysis by analysis. :-)
Your statement was one of those that made me chuckle because it started as a joke...and then reality set in the more i thought about it, and then it made me feel sad, nervous, etc.
> ...These cloud providers need to step back and observe how terrible they've made these products...
I doubt that will happen because none of them want to stop the money-making machine they have! And, if your thought after my comment is that all us techies are making a fuss, so the cloud providers and businesses using them will hear our cries and trigger a backlash...? I doubt that to...because some senior business leaders that i see are bent on listening more to management consultants as opposed to abalance of folks including their own internal experts...but, alas, maybe i'm just having too cynical a day today. :-)
Honestly, i have been wanting to suggest to my leaders that we should go to on-prem for primary, and use cloud only as extra for peak traffic and/or failover, etc...but, the culture where i'm at is so bought into cloud as if it solves all problems...and then, in the next breath they all ask me to drastically reduce cloud costs and ensure 100% uptime at all times 24/7/365 (1005 uptime without complexity and without any added costs!).
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