Jskewel

Saying the Chinese and US governments are the same is so absurd it doesn't warrant a reply.

Where are you seeing those claims?

I think we're fighting against the modern world here. My 4S did and still does take the last great iPhone photos, before the processing pipeline ruined it for me, with over-sharpening, smeared noise-reduction and color flattening.

Thankfully we have access to raw DNGs in phones after the 4S, so we can create our own image processing pipeline.

But for "out of the camera" JPGs, the 4S is still supreme.

Adsense has been a nightmare for us.

They have been putting thousands of scam adverts on our website for some time. Think "you have been looking at xxx and must pay a $100 fine" type popup nonsense. Hosted on the following websites:

azurestaticapps.net

azurewebsites.net

herokuapp.com

ondigitalocean.app

digitaloceanspaces.com

netlify.app

Google doesn't allow you to block these domains, because they consider them "TLDs" (the scammers use a new subdomain every day eg abcdefg.herokuapp.com). The scammers get banned and return the next day with a new account and subdomain (repeat every day). Therefore we cannot stop them. It's bizarre and baffling. But Google Adsense had to go.

Impossible. The majority of websites firewall automated crawler traffic (because of the rise of the bots), only making exceptions for the largest search engines. There is no possibility of starting a new crawler.

4%-6% of iPhone sales, but not of profits.

Satya Nadella said he was going to make Windows less cr*p. Having a wallpaper advert is clownish and grotesque, so did he lie?

We have the absurd situation where human-made websites are by default blocking AI training bots (see Cloudflare etc), but AI is creating websites solely to be fed to AI training bots.

So within a few years, most of the ingested website content will be AI.

Is it inevitable that AI companies are going to have start paying to access human content?

I didn't realise using <> made me old-school, time for a find-and-replace in my PHP codebase!

Not nearly fast enough on 32GB, would like to be wrong though.

The M6 is useless for AI. Is there any model which is actually useful and fast on 32GB?

PPWR is an EU catastrophe.

Firstly for the reasons outlined in the article: it essentially makes being a micro/small business in the EU impossible, if your market is other EU countries.

Secondly because it validates insidious populist views that the EU institution is useless and incompetent at a fundamental level.

The legislation is so ABSURDIST that the EU have actually asked companies to ignore the law that they just implemented. I can assure you it is difficult to ignore a law that comes with a €200000 fine for non-compliance.

"there is a very good chance this civilization will probably come to an end"

OK doomer

It's almost unbelievable that a step-tracker can have 2 years battery.

With Cloudflare you can set a rule to block traffic that identifies as Googlebot but is not a "verified bot", ie is not from the proper IP range.

I'm happy to unblock China from accessing my website, once China does something about the millions of daily hack attempts originating from that country.

For those suggesting fail2ban as a solution, that's dinosaur software from the palaeolithic. If you have a website of any size then the number of bots will overwhelm the block list in days with their millions of unique IPs.

Cloudflare analytics is great, but you need to filter by edge status code 200 to see the actual real traffic that was allowed through their firewall.