Read the whole comment, it’s sarcasm

Yeah but they are taking your data from the laptop your mum bought yesterday and put all the family vacation pictures on. Mum didn’t know she had to kill off OneDrive or Microsoft will hoover up and monetise your memories.

If you look at what AI does, however, it’s mostly classification.

Not necessarily, a huge use case is regulation and control in the engineering, not the political sense. Like driverless cars, independently flying drones and such. And yeah, they need classification subsystems under the hood to work, but their ultimate outputs are complex control signals, not simple classes.

And don’t get me wrong, I also like ML and AI as a field, I just don’t like how OpenAI fucked the field with text generators that they got Silicon Valley to worship like gods. I even like LLMs, just not the grotesquely outsized cult around them.

AI is an adequate solution to a problem that has no other similarly adequate solutions (classification of complex information).

Sentiment analysis machines and such have been around before LLMs and eat much less electricity.

LLMs taken over the “AI” label so much that any success from a machine learning context is attributed to it, while it actually defunds and kills research out of ML all into LLMs.

They ensure content never leaves by having it be so low quality that nobody will want to take it away.

Excel used to have, and I think it still has, localised function names.

Makes it a nightmare to look up stuff on the Internet.

Or when you use the right tool for the job (Python instead of Rust)

It’s the Brussels effect, it’s been mandatory in the EU for a while now.

I don’t get what FSD adds to the highway experience though, a Kia can drive hundreds of kilometers on a highway with basically no input as well.

AI makes revenue go down, stock value go up. The real economy doesn’t matter, only Wall Street vibes.

With a JS-based query language, yeah

I’ve a slight manageable case of ADHD and I tend to obsessively hyperfocus on tasks. It’s a good relationship because I get a lot of shit done well, and enjoy my work.

If you start forcing me to plan out my day every day, down to 15 minute increments, my productivity drops by around 60%, because I stop concentrating on getting shit done, and start working to rule. Not because I’m vindictive, but because that’s what you asked me to do.

So they got their feelings satisfied with only a major annoyance to everyone and about a month of work wasted among everyone.

Definitely, and I’m saying that while my jobs were mostly on NoSQL and I love doing it.

My point is more that 90% of use cases don’t need that, and for those that do, you can’t just slap eg. Cassandra at it and pretend it’s a relational database.

MongoDB is huge though for all the wrong reasons, businesses think that just because it’s JS, they can just have frontend devs - sorry, they are “fullstack” now - doing DBA work.

I worked as one of two NoSQL DBAs for a Fortune 50 finance company, and there is a ton of CV-driven development going on giving NoSQL a bad name. Most use cases don’t need NoSQL. And for those which do, NoSQL is almost always harder to implement than simple SQL based RDBMSs.

NoSQL has always been a niche use case thing.

For some stuff, no ACID is no problem. They have their place. What I’m more suspicious of is things like Google offering distributed databases that they pretend as if they could break the CAP theorem.

Enterprise lags behind Home and Pro. Consumers are QA for Enterprise.

There was no header on the request saying I want ads though

Yeah but it doesn’t matter what the objective of the scraper is, the only thing that matters is that it’s an automated client that is going to send mass requests to you. If it wasn’t, Anubis would not be a problem for it.

The effect is the same, increased hosting costs and less access for legitimate clients. And sites want to defend against it.

That said, it is not mandatory, you can avoid using Anubis as a host. Nobody is forcing you to use it. And as someone who regularly gets locked out of services because I use a VPN, Anubis is one of the least intrusive protection methods out there.

The dotcom bubble’s time still had some US antitrust enforcement, like with Microsoft and its browser dominance. It was an easier time.

I feel this attempt might be more successful.