> it means you have the skill and knowledge to ...
sure, but in the real world the overwhelming majority of people loudly proclaiming the benefits of AI don't actually have the skill or knowledge (or discipline) to do so / judge its correctness. it's peak dunning-kruger
I don’t know a lot about the rest of Europe on this, but here in France it’s been more than a decade SMS are unlimited in mobile plans, and these plans are quite cheap.
Ignoring pride, WhatsApp has major advantages over SMS/MMS, including high-quality media, group chats that actually work, free international messaging, video calls, and (unless they're lying) encryption.
I would be pleased if everyone who uses SMS with me switched to WhatsApp. I would be more pleased if they switched to Signal, but the UX benefits of either one are significant.
> Actually, for Robotics hardware is a solved problem.
I understand the sentiment but this couldn't be further from the truth. There are no robotic hand models that get close to the fidelity of humans (or even other primates).
The technology just doesn't exist yet, motors are a terrible muscle replacement. Even completely without software, a puppeteered hand model would be revolutionary.
It’s their fault for pushing all this crap in all the things and misleading their investors that there is actually “intelligence” in what we now call AI.
> grocery delivery apps are for
These are not popular here and for a good reason - you need to enjoy your food and it starts by picking the right ingredients yourself.
“someone packs a bag for me and delivers it to my door” is just moving the problem somewhere else, not actual innovation.
They always mess up a few things, make brain dead substitutions, or get low quality produce. I had bags show up smelling strongly of cigarettes. All for a premium price, an app that takes a surprising amount of time finding things on, and the complete loss of discoverability.
My experience with other shopping sites makes me suspect that with all the ads, tracking, captchas, etc bogging things down, it might be faster to just go to the store yourself.
> Sooner or later Kim Jong Fat will also lose out to the internet.
North Koreans do not have any Internet, save for through computers at a few government-controlled and strictly monitored libraries, as well as through illegal imported Chinese smartphones if they live near the border.
robots.txt is for automated, headless crawlers, NOT user-initiated actions. If a human directly triggers the action, then robots.txt should not be followed.
But what action are you triggering that automatically follows invisible links? Especially those not meant to be followed with text saying not to follow them.
This is not banning you for following <h1><a>Today's Weather</a></h1>
If you are a robot that's so poorly coded that it is following links it clearly shouldn't that's are explicitly numerated as not to be followed, that's a problem. From an operator's perspective, how is this different than a case you described.
If a googler kicked off the googlebot manually from a session every morning, should they not respect robots.txt either?
I was responding to someone earlier saying a user agent should respect robots.txt. An LLM powered user-agent wouldn't follow links, invisible or not, because it's not crawling.
There's a fuzzy line between an agent analyzing the content of a single page I requested, and one making many page fetches on my behalf. I think it's fair to treat an agent that clicks an invisible link as a robot/crawler since that agent is causing more traffic than a regular user agent (browser).
Just trying to make the point that an LLM powered user agent fetching a single page at my request isn't a robot.
These aren't scraper bots; they're vulnerability scanners. They don't expect PHP source code and probably don't even read the response body at all.
I don't know why people would assume these are AI/LLM scrapers seeking PHP source code on random servers(!) short of it being related to this brainless "AI is stealing all the data" nonsense that has infected the minds of many people here.
802.11ah hardware is sadly still rather expensive. The cheapest thing I could find is a $40 PCIe card (M.2 form factor); USB dongles for it are still $100+.
At this point, it's probably worth abandoning 802.11ah as an idea and trying some different RF standard.
> I would not be surprised if this practice is technically against most terms of service.
It doesn't really matter. RIPE and other RIRs let you put whatever metadata you want for an IP range into the database, and you can serve whatever you want from your own geolocation feed. If the geolocation providers don't like it, it's up to them to stop fetching your data.
This type of software is being sold on many forums, both on the clearnet and darknet.
> Wouldn't the attackers just pirate it?
Sometimes the software is SaaS (yes, even crimeware is SaaS now). In other cases, it has heavy DRM. Besides that, attackers often want regular updates to avoid things like antivirus detections.
I assume the forums you're talking about are cybercrime forums. So I think that counts as "marketed for cybercrime". I'm asking if there's anything not marketed for cybercrime.
Using AI as a tool doesn't mean having it do everything; it means you have the skill and knowledge to know where and how you can use it.