Exactly, I thought one year was enough to prove that everyone reads those letters differently nowadays.
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To prove my point, I opened a random date on the Apple website matching today's date to compare. 16 years ago, June 8 (1) Apple released the iPhone 4. There's still no room for jokes about that release, and from this perspective, calling their AI 'Apple Intelligence' feels weak compared to what they used to deliver.
I agree that some years ago Apple was the strongest in marketing, their brand team had been setting the bar for tech, but I simply can't say that anymore.
1. https://web.archive.org/web/20100608073904/http://www.apple....
It's not even funny, it's not smart. It's like if they released MS Siri and said it's Mac System Siri.
To pursue the highest level of monochrome expression, a dedicated image sensor was developed. It does not use a color filter to acquire color information; instead, each pixel captures the brightness information of the subject and directly translates it into a monochrome image. This allows the sensor to receive more light information than a conventional color image sensor, resulting in sharper images with enhanced detail and improved sensitivity.
I will certainly not. And even if I did — within any reachable radius there's nothing actually suitable, everything is 10+ ly away, but maybe I missed something.
Could you please clarify which ones? I'm planning my escape, but it seems that even lightspeed wouldn't be enough to colonize anything suitable.
1. https://play.tirreno.com (admin/tirreno)
I'm working on an open-source tool that could be useful for bot detection, but I'm still not confident that anyone would deploy it on-prem and make the setup/maintenance instead of just routing traffic through the cloud.
Perhaps performance as a KPI could work. Thanks!
User-agent: *
Even on a very bad day, the server's page load time doesn't go over 1s.
However, it seems like I'm indeed looking at the problem through the wrong prism, as what I've seen from the comments suggests that the initial issue is performance, and the bots are what uncover it.
I've been dealing with the web since the previous century and still haven't managed to build a website that could be hurt by scrapers visiting it.
If you went through the logs, you'd probably see that these bots are on a single IP or subnet, which can be easily detected and blocked instead of closing off search to non-registered users.
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /
If the digital platform's storefront is their business, they could afford to spend some budget on bot detection. Bots still come from data center networks, sometimes render pages incompletely, request resources in bulk, and show enough patterns to be flagged internally.
If we look at a medium website, most random crawlers will come from Amazon, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OVH, and a few other DC networks — these can be blocked easily without harming real users. The rest can be detected and cleaned up, even manually.
The math is simple: 20,000 visits a day at 15 seconds each = ~83 hours a day lost watching a Cloudflare logo, just because someone doesn't want to dig into the logs. I don't buy it.
I've been monitoring bot traffic on digital platforms for over 10 years. Sure, the crawler share is growing, some even with malicious intentions, and those I detect and block.
I disagree that this pain is worth the cost of making real people spend their life on verification.
It's also possible that people just cover illegal activity with some sort of SaaS.
Unfortunately, the internet is full of all sorts of growth strategies and gurus saying it's feasible, but in reality it's nearly impossible. And when I talk about time, I mean 2-3 years for B2C and easily 5+ for B2B on organic growth.
Moreover, the current spread of LLMs is only making things worse, compared to if you'd started before COVID. People are overheated with SaaS, it's not fun anymore, and everything is considered a privacy or security threat. All of this only lengthens the path to customers.
I don't want to give any advice on what to do, but based on my nearly 20 years of experience in web entrepreneurship, income from B2B SaaS is not something you can count on in the early years.
This line really hurts! I made my first website in 1999 and my first online business in 2010, and I've never had a real vacation without emails since then.
However, in my 40s, as self-employed, I've never paid myself a six-figure salary either. So perhaps I need to reconsider my plans for the rest of my life.
French companies pay social contributions (~45% of the full salary) via Visa and MasterCard, and the French authorities are making it nearly impossible to pay these by wire transfer.
Hope that's not your case, but seeing how irresponsible Google is in its actions, I couldn't tolerate such risks.
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