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Recent Posts
The Internet's Politest File Just Got a Doorman
Since 1994, the web's oldest defense against unwanted robots has been a text file politely asking them to leave. On 21 August, Cloudflare started writing that file for you. And on 15 September, for new ad-funded websites behind Cloudflare, the default answer to "may I train on this?" flips to no.
Everyone's Editor Tried to Help at Once
GitHub went down on 17 August for seven hours and forty-seven minutes. The thing that broke was fixed in about three. The other five hours were millions of code editors, all politely asking again, forever, because nobody had taught them to wait.
The Switch That Was Already On
Twitch added a switch that lets you stop Amazon from training generative AI on your channel. The switch arrived already on. And one line in the help article, which nobody quoted, says that whether your chat in someone else's stream gets used is a decision that stranger already made for you.
The Chip That Can Only Think One Thought
AMD bought a company whose pitch is four words long: The Model is The Computer. Not a slogan. They etch the model into the metal, and then you cannot change your mind.