I like this. News is a frittata, it needs time to set before consuming.

The great chain of bleating

Hell yeah!

It’s 10 pm on a Sunday. My FIL is texting me business plans from the slop hole as I try to get the last kiddo down to sleep. He wants me to read them to my wife, who already mad at him about it.

Thank you all for being an island of sanity.

Shitlibs running to sign up for claude is peak whatever the fuck this moment is.

You can’t just go around telling people that their loop isn’t strange enough

God ate my homework

Thanks, this is a nifty read; I’m appreciating having a look into the world of the bastards who are ruining the web with residential proxy/botnet operations. I had kind of (mistakenly) assumed that the scrapers mostly relied upon IoT trash and hacked Fire sticks. We really can’t have nice things anymore, huh?

The company is embroiled in legal action in Israel. After it filed suit against a former employee, he countersued, alleging that Luminati is widely used for click fraud. As part of the suit, it was revealed that the spyware company NSO Group was a Luminati client.

Well that escalated quickly

PS: i really really wish my special interests would quit touching

Looks like they’re gonna ruin BattleBots with AI somehow. Bright Data appear to be web scraping bastards as a service.

I’ll never forgive them for what they did to the 80 lb slab of rotating steel.

Imagine shaving a racist yak

Revolutionary Sneerpuku

Axios publishes an ad for Anthropic. tptacek bravely defends a corporation from unimpressed fellow hackers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902909

Edit: tptacek implies that Ludic no longer stands behind Contra Ptacek’s Terrible Article On AI, which I don’t believe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906403

tptacek explains that the one armed bandit addiction loop is good actually:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905142

Heckin yeah, are you going through a union?

Tangentially on topic:

Just finished The Regicide Report by friend of the instance Charles Stross. Hell of a finish to the main series! I’ll ikely start a re-read of the whole series soon, and I’m hopeful that it’ll win all the awards.

Had a couple of shower thoughts afterward:

1. In the previous novel, a bunch of American computer bois with brainworms concocted a plan to disassemble the moon and turn it into orbital datacenters, which is lol

2. Ghislaine Maxwell is the Iris Carpenter of pedos.

3. Keeping speculative fiction ahead of current events must be exhausting.

Like tradesmen sharing tales of the worst bathroom they’ve ever encountered (positive). A++

The vibes were wretched. Why do people to have to battle emotional abuse from a goddamned web browser?

but hey, at least this way we now just know and don’t have to guess. so much easier

+1, yeesh. Btw, if Dingus McGee there resides in the UK, might some of that shit might be legally actionable? I’d certainly have strong feelings about being defamed by the representative of a rather well-funded technology company lol

YCombinator will let founders accept payments in butts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875033

Thanks for lighting his ass on fire. o7

Very much “sweaty guy hovering over two buttons”

R3call

Buisness plan: daily reminders to Recall the Recall Recall. It’s memento mori for CEOs as a service.