I know about the collapse of traffic to sites like Stack Overflow, but is that also being seen on sites like ReadTheDocs?
This question partly motivated by a discussion I was having with someone about "where would one actually advertise?" in relation to the drop in my own business.
A consensus like this is rarely seen in an online poll.
"Is Donald Trump completely sane from a psychological point of view?"
taken from a popular Czech news site.
What is the anti-AI endgame at this point? It feels like everyone who's anti-AI is just praying for the bubble to burst. Like do you think when it happens that OpenAI is just going to close their doors and say "well we had a good run but lets close it down?" No! What's going to happen is what happens every time a bubble bursts and any smaller AI companies will go under or be absorbed by the few remaining ones and we'll just be left with 2 or 3 companies that control everything, and instead of fostering alternatives and trying to keep up with and help contribute to open stacks that can't be locked behind paywalls, the vast majority of the open-source community has just decided to complain about things changing and hope it doesn't.
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RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1159…
This is my shocked face...
And, if we don't get Trump and the GOP out of power, when things do crash here's what'll happen -- the big tech companies will get bailed out on our dollars and we'll be stuck with the bill. While there are rampant layoffs to boot, and our 401Ks crater.
PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings. Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge https://www.theregister.nixCraft 🐧 (Mastodon)
Jacques-Cartier Bridge in Montréal completely closed because of an adjacent fire.
No reports of injuries.
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mo…
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Le pont Jacques-Cartier à Montréal est complètement fermé, à cause qui lui est adjacent.
Aucun signalement de blessés.
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2…
Un incendie qui a pris naissance mardi soir dans un immeuble de la rue De Lorimier, tout juste à la sortie du pont Jacques-Cartier, force la fermeture du pont par mesure de précaution.Nicolas Bourcier (Radio-Canada Info)
libcurl memory use some years later
A look into memory consumption in #curl over time
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/21…
One of the trickier things in software is gradual degradation. Development that happens in the wrong direction slowly over time which never triggers any alarms or upset users.daniel.haxx.se
I use #curl _a lot_ when probing exploitable stuff.
I should donate to curl.
*30 seconds later*
I have now donated to curl.
Here are the custom companions some users like to have along for their search! Katto is comfortably in the lead. (These are anonymously compiled.)
If you're a Kagi member, you can select your companion here: kagi.com/settings/companions
miki
in reply to David Beazley • • •THe Tailwind folks are complaining about it on their site (they used it to advertise paid Tailwind features, so it's a significant drop in revenue for them).
This is probably more of a problem for them than for anybody else (LLMs can and do look at docs, but they're effectively "ad blockers" and only give you the information you actually want / need, not what the website owner wants you to see). No idea what the impact is on other sites.
David Beazley
in reply to miki • • •miki
in reply to David Beazley • • •Yeah, for better and for worse, they give the user exactly what they want, no more and no less. Some consider this as a walled garden, others as a natural extension of fast forward, ad blocking and reader mode. I guess it depends on where you fall on the scale of author's rights versus reader's rights.
Though to be fair, I suspect that many authors will leverage this and find a way to speak to LLMs directly. With enough prompt engineering, you could probably convince an LLM reading your website to tell the user about something you care about. The line between jailbreaking and telling the user something they want to hear is blurry, just like the line between delivering genuinely useful commercial information and manipulation is blurry in advertising. It's a strange world we live in.