Posts by Hannah Vernon

Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare's claims its bots are bad

6,360 /22s blocked

My router has been blocking suspect IP addresses based on a custom log inspector I wrote for about 3 months. The list is now blocking access from over 6,360 /22 networks, because fuck AI.

AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads

ads?

What are these "ad" things you speak of? Pi-hole, Wireguard, and Firefox with NoScript, et voila virtually an ad-free experience, across all my devices.

And also, AI can do one.

SpaceX closing in on approval for 25 Starship launches in 2025

Public Funds Enriching South African Billionaires

Glad to see late stage capitalism is still hard at work.

ChatGPT has mastered the confidence trick, and that's a terrible look for AI

missed opportunity

No mention of @amanfrommars anywhere in the article.

Oregon city courting Google data centers fights to keep their water usage secret

how much?

How many Olympic Size Swimming Pools is 5 billion gallons? Seems the Reg's Department of Weights and Measures wasn't consulted for this article. Tsk tsk.