Spoken like someone who has never had some idiot in a backhoe chop a fiber bundle…multiple times in a week.

And, when it happens, it generally gets repaired in hours. You cannot launch a new constellation in hours.

Except StarLink cannot possibly provide the same bandwidth, latency, and throughput a fiber connection can. Because of physics.

I can either share my 10G symmetrical connection with nobody, or with 200 others.

And, Fiber costs me $70 a month. Starlink, with worse performance, costs 4x more.

There’s no difference in server load between a user looking at a page and a user using an AI tool to summarize the page.

There is, in scale.

Cheering for Cloudflare to be the arbiter of what technologies are allowed is incredibly short sighted

Except, they don’t. It’s a toggle, available to users, and by default, allows Perplexity’s scraping.

I think it boils down to “consent” and “remuneration”.

I run a website, that I do not consent to being accessed for LLMs. However, should LLMs use my content, I should be compensated for such use.

So, these LLM startups ignore both consent, and the idea of remuneration.

Most of these concepts have already been figured out for the purpose of law, if we consider websites much akin to real estate: Then, the typical trespass laws, compensatory usage, and hell, even eminent domain if needed ie, a city government can “take over” the boosted post feature to make sure alerts get pushed as widely and quickly as possible.

You could probably route all requests to your site from them, back at themselves, so they DDoS themselves, and on top off it, cost them more because their endpoint needs to process things via their LLM.

How “open” a website is, is up to the owner, and that’s all. Unless we’re talking about de-privatizing the internet as a whole, here.

Centralization, mostly, but also their hands-off approach to most fascist content.

And I’m assuming if the robots.txt state their UserAgent isn’t allowed to crawl, it obeys it, right? :P

I mean, I suppose so… But it certainly showed that in order to face off with a superior force, you need to not be a shite leader too. Capitulation won that conflict, by and large.

Or, hear me out… as a news aggregator… aggregate those RSS feeds into a single feed? Like how Lemmy has an RSS feed of the links the users provide?

Yes, you must read Nazi news and Leftist news to be balanced!

Ah, got ya. Even then, most of that was done by aircraft sorties, though, and not much tank action. The US didn’t enter Iraq very far in the first Gulf War.

CF == Cloudflare :)

nd modern armor could destroy both of them with pinpoint accuracy while moving full speed over rough terrain outside of radar range (e.g. what happened in the invasion of Iraq).

lol, that is NOT what happened in Iraq. The tanks were sitting on low boy trucks for the vast majority of the invasion. How do I know this? Because they were in my convoys.

Even for major offensives after the initial invasion, that’s not at all what happened. They were basically employed as large mortars, sitting about a half mile outside of a town, and leveling it.

nah, it was invented to be able to watch a kid’s little brother bite his finger

Personally I just don’t want to invest in anything I think fucks up the world.

For better or worse, then you wont want to invest in well, anything. Capitalism is always fucking up the world.

That said, most don’t have a choice about it, if they ever want to retire.

The best I can get you is investing in Seed Commons, or something similar: https://seedcommons.org/invest

Log into your dashboard, click “AI Audit”, and you’ll see the toggles.