For a hot minute Eucalyptus https://www.eucalyptus.cloud was amazing - even matching aws bugs to keep compatibility. Wish it had rue support/resources to keep going. Maybe a viber will pick up and get it more up to date.

A majority of the planet thinks life started here. Finding it elsewhere would culturally be a cosmic (puns) shift of before alien life existed verifiably and after.

Sadly, not really. That's really underestimating the capacity of religions and their followers to weather and rationalize away new facts that directly contradict their myths and cosmology. If Christianity was able to survive Evolution and the Big Bang, discovering a few cells on Europa won't even make a dent.

Yeah if they had the resources of an OpenAI or anthropic they’d be OpenAI or Anthropic. Scrappy underdogs have to be nimble and innovative.

They are as “underdog” as Linux is to Windows.

Not really, they are underdogs in the true sense of the word.

As long as they think these leopards won’t eat their faces, that is.

To paraphrase a Chinese saying, 'Leopards are bad!'.

Ads of you wearing the clothes they are trying to sell you. Yet another torment nexus to build!

“Don’t Create the Torment Nexus” in this case is Stand on Zanzibar from 1968, which called this concept Mr and Mrs Everywhere

I have my doubts this would ever catch on, people will be creeped out and furious for ads (generally speaking), perhaps online clothing shops previewing is palatable

White listing doesn’t protect against supply chain attacks. You need some sort of behavioral analysis.

What the industry is discovering is that copywriting is actually a skill. And it becomes pretty obvious if you don’t have any of it.

All security is a negotiation of allocating resources. It always ends with “well, that’s good enough for this.” There is never a “Ahhhh we’re done!” It can always be “more secure”.

The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.

"I could not help myself. It is my nature."

Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.

It’s not just hackers - since legitimate sites block AI crawlers, the AI are just grabbing whatever will let them read anything - killing legit sites and feeding slop farms and feeding misinformation! The future is so bright!