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Who would win?

If it were one employee from each, it's Waffle House. No contest.

One customer changes things a lot. I think it's probably still Waffle House that takes it, but Popeyes and WalMart are in the running.

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Tupperware

The best decision I ever made was to replace all my containers to be all the same size.

I never need to worry because every container and lid is the same. Sometimes I need to use 2 containers for one thing, but that is a small price to pay to never need to hunt for lids

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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

This is a good point. Honestly, I think the tac that Anubis takes is probably the best one right now.

If each request you make to a web server is computationally expensive, that makes it harder for the bots to get that info at high speed, and thus needs to spend more power to access it. If a solution like that is deployed at a wide enough scale, it becomes prohibitively expensive to do the scraping.

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Honestly, the character is the worst part about it, but that can be changed with an enterprise license

The Javascript requirement is not ideal, but the reality is that the vast majority of the internet already needs it, so I don't see it as that much of a hurdle. The other problem it has is that it requires a sort of herd immunity to achieve the goal. If a critical mass of websites don't use it, then the AI companies can simply just pay for the increased compute costs for the sites that do.

In a world where more than half of websites that are being scraped had some kind of protection like this, it would work much better.

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Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3

Microsoft is bleeding power users and PC enthusiasts at an unprecedented rate. This is a great thing for Linux, but they are still absolutely locked into the corporate world and that's where the money is.

The reality is that Microsoft solved management of corporate policy and identity like 25 years ago and nothing else has come close. It has its problems, but Active Directory is an incredible piece of software. The combination of LDAP, with obfuscation of Kerberos to the point where you don't even need to know it exists, combined with policy deployment to endpoints is nothing short of a miracle.

Linux has tools for all those things, but none are easy to deploy or configure. If you have to manage thousands of desktops, Windows is still the clear choice

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Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

Cruz alleged that "bias is particularly evident in Wikipedia's reliable sources/perennial sources list" because it describes "MSNBC and CNN as 'generally reliable' sources, while listing Fox News as a 'generally unreliable' source for politics and science. The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center gets a top rating, but the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank, is a 'blacklisted' and 'deprecated' source that Wikipedia's editors have determined 'promotes disinformation.'"

It's kind of funny how when your goal becomes to present factual information, there aren't many especially right-leaning sources. I wonder why that might be.

Can you think of why that might be the case, Ted?