Article in 2027:

Keyboard prices soared this month, as tech giants pivoted from failed AI projects to employing hordes of monkeys typing randomly. One CEO was quoted as saying, “Just a few trillion more dollars, and I think our random typing model could reproduce the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria.”

So somewhere in here we need some M. C. Escher stairs of AWS on the electrical grid on AWS on the electrical grid…

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The part that I got a kick out of was that their status page was also throwing out the error. I guess it was still indicating the status in a way…

Prepping for migration from cloud back to on-prem?

This sounds like any website suddenly becomes an app store as soon as it starts distributing software for a mobile device. So (ignoring my following point), if I suddenly post my new APK on my personal site suddenly it’s an app store!?

I think so. The intention is probably to have the law cover any method of getting your hands on an app, not just what we typically know as “app stores”. Otherwise, it would leave a loophole.

This sounds like it includes laptops but not desktop computers.

I thought that at first too, but I think the part at the end about “handheld electronic devices” is what limits it to not include laptops.

But they DID curse. Did those asterisks magically remove all meaning from those words, or were you still perfectly able to understand their meaning? If it’s the latter, then the asterisks accomplished nothing.

If they truly wanted to avoid cursing, those words wouldn’t be there at all. Self-censoring like they did is what needs to be done on some platforms to still curse, but bypass content filters. That isn’t necessary here, so it’s just performative. If you’re going to curse, just fucking do it.

…and Perplexity’s scraping is unnecessarily traffic intensive since they don’t cache the scraped data.

That seems almost maliciously stupid. We need to train a new model. Hey, where’d the data go? Oh well, let’s just go scrape it all again. Wait, did we already scrape this site? No idea, let’s scrape it again just to be sure.

Did it hover at any point? Other than it looking like an osprey, hovering would be the giveaway.

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That jumped out at me too. Giving the benefit of the doubt, it could be that this “snapshot” includes a very large amount of data that could be problematic if stored locally for longer. In reality, they probably do it this way for exactly this type of situation, so they can retain full control of the potentially-damning data.

Plot twist: their position on hate speech is in favour, and her role will be to develop ways to encourage it.