The correct truth is to go to a higher level of abstraction and explain that there's a naming controversy.

I get the general point, but I disagree that you have to choose between one of the possibilities instead of explaining what the current state of belief is. This won't eliminate grey areas but it'll sure get us closer than picking a side at random.

Love it.

At the end of the article they mention digging in to the Amiga scene. If you want to feel old, Deluxe Paint turns 40 this year. My mates had Amigas (I had an Amstrad) and the computing world just felt full of wonder and promise. It was a magical time of creation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluxe_Paint

The Marginalia search engine or archive.org probably don't deserve such treatment--they're performing a public service that benefits everyone, for free. And it's generally not in one's best interests to serve a bunch of garbage to Google or Bing's crawlers, either.

They might also be focusing all their work on beating Grok 4 now, since xAi has a significant edge in accumulating computing power and they opened a considerable gap in raw intelligence tests like ARC and HLE. OpenAI is in this to win the competitive race, not the open one.

previously the author wrote in a comment reply about not configuring robots.txt at all:

> I've not configured anything in my robots.txt and yes, this is an extreme position to take. But I don't much like the concept that it's my responsibility to configure my web site so that crawlers don't DOS it. In my opinion, a legitimate crawler ought not to be hitting a single web site at a sustained rate of > 15 requests per second.

You could switch into a domain where safety-critical software is developed. Here devs complain about the inverse problem: Why are we required to have 100% test coverage?!

(The answer btw: Because nobody would be able to explain to a jury/judge that 80% or whatever is enough)

Mail servers typically resolve a remote IP to a PTR. High number of PTR requests can indicate that the network is used to send email. Amazon (both SES and EC2) is one of the biggest email sources on the Internet (ranging from ham to marketing and there is huge spam volume from AWS too).

I’m not sure where you live but this is a rather strange perspective. Apple is a lifestyle company? I think for every person I know that has an android phone, there are three or four with iPhones, where I live. Doesn’t make a very convincing case of some specific kind of a lifestyle niche.

Then, among the developers I know, nearly none of them are actually writing apps for Apple devices, approximately half using MacBooks.

> As a libertarian, I am thankful for this investigation.

I didn't get this line. You're saying "even though I am a libertarian I support this non-libertarian action"? Or is it something else?

Previously independent companies were free to choose what they display, now there are proposals for government mandates over their allowed actions.

I may be missing your point.

That is more or less the recommendation from the report, except it wasn't a shortage of intertia, more a shortage of grid voltage control, which current rules prevent renewables from participating in, even if they are capable of it (it's mostly a case of the inverters, not the panels/turbines they draw from. Same with inertia). The blackout was mainly due to a failure of multiple participants in the grid to do what they were supposed to (failing to provide the voltage control it was contracted to do, in one case potentially failing to not drive oscillations into the grid, and failing to remain online within the required voltage range). A lot of the recommendations in the report are 'we should check the plants are up to scratch'.

So? The comparison still makes no sense. Those switches cannot be accidentally flipped, and they are in a place where the pilots' hands have no action to take at all during that period. That is very different from mixing up two similar weapons in a similar location.

There's a reason the inherititors of the coyright* refused to allow more copies of Mein Kampf to be produced until that copyright expired.

* the federal state of Bavaria

AI summaries are information deodorant. When you stumble on a misinformation site via Google, usually there are some signals you can smell. Like how they word their titles or how frequently they post similar topics. The 'style' alone implies the quality of the 'substance'. But if you read the same substance summarized by LLMs you can't smell shit.

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> "time to do that thing i've practiced, reach to the left". shuts two engines off by muscle memory.

If that were true, pilots would perform arbitrary motions all the time. Same with car drivers.

Typing something on a keyboard, especially when it's always in the same context, is always essentially the same physical action. The context of a password prompt is the same, the letters on the keyboard feel the same and are right next to each other.

Not comparable to pressing two very different buttons placed far apart, in a context when you'd never ever reach for them.

It seems a bit similar to https://omnitools.app/, would it be best to consolidate some of this work?

This is the direct result of regulations. As usual regulations backfire. Expect more regulations to address this, surely they won’t backfire as well.