Jump to content

Vegas64

Full Members
  • Posts

    2321
  • Joined

Everything posted by Vegas64

  1. @Captainant San Francisco, CA, July 1, 2025 –Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced it is now the first Internet infrastructure provider to block AI crawlers accessing content without permission or compensation, by default. Starting today, website owners can choose if they want AI crawlers to access their content, and decide how AI companies can use it. AI companies can also now clearly state their purpose – if their crawlers are used for training, inference, or search – to help website owners decide which crawlers to allow. Cloudflare's new default setting is the first step toward a more sustainable future for both content creators and AI innovators. For decades, the Internet has operated on a simple exchange: search engines index content and direct users back to original websites, generating traffic and ad revenue for websites of all sizes. This cycle rewards creators that produce quality content with money and a following, while helping users discover new and relevant information. That model is now broken. AI crawlers collect content like text, articles, and images to generate answers, without sending visitors to the original source – depriving content creators of revenue, and the satisfaction of knowing someone is viewing their content. If the incentive to create original, quality content disappears, society ends up losing, and the future of the Internet is at risk. “If the Internet is going to survive the age of AI, we need to give publishers the control they deserve and build a new https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-just-changed-how-ai-crawlers-scrape-the-internet-at-large/
  2. Don’t be facetious Jeffrey. I wrote this over a plate of fajitas with my thumbs on my iPhone and I hate that AI has co-opted the em dash. Let me find some supporting documentation — and the blog— (em dash yet again mine) as I think you are missing the big picture. I actually am appealing to you because I know you understand this stuff better than I do.
  3. Mmmm….you may know more that what I read, but from what I’ve been reading a) it’s definitely not table stakes today to be able to thwart AI crawlers and b) allegedly 20% of all internet flows through cloud flare today. It seems like you know more than me about what makes it blase— have you read into the details and still find it to be a nothing burger?
  4. I don't even have to click in the link to know that's a mainland Mexico vibe. Just the furniture and blankets alone.
  5. Anyone seen this? This is either going to nerf LLM's or triple Cloudflare's revenue:
  6. And if you are from Texas and over 50 than as soon as you hear these intros it's going down. I mean as soon as you heard "Cash money taking over for the 99..." it was over.
  7. Literally came here to post this. But I am also partial to:
  8. Has anyone been following the Windsurf stuff? Crazy scenarios and crazy implications on the future of M&A, acquihires, and start-up ecosystem in general.
  9. He went against Ryan Reynolds I think (he was a two-bit costar in the first Deadpool) and he got drunk and phoned in a bomb threat that got everyone upset. Those alone wouldn't have been insurmountable except that he verified via his Netflix comedy special, to anyone who cared to watch, that he is strikingly and aggressively unfunny left to his own devices.
  10. Reminds me of the old saw, "There is no hate like [American] Christian love". When it comes to Christians: Many are called, few are chosen.
  11. You joke, but I have been convinced for a while that Trump is definitely autistic and on the spectrum. 100%. Doesn't excuse him at all, it's not an excuse, but it helps to understand some of his behavioral quirks that you see (while he's being horrible). This is giving Putin stealing Kraft's superbowl ring.
  12. I don't mind the standing up next to your seat if you are an aisle seat. It serves two purposes for those of us who are not manlets. We can stretch from a long flight and, most importantly, play defense for everyone else on the yahoo who doesn't wait his/her turn.
  13. I can't stand ATL because it's one long row and if you are at T and need to get to A or whatever, it takes forever. The only worse set up for me in that regard is CVG which makes you walk 2 miles before taking a train, all in the same direction.
  14. I tried to beat the system once and flew into SNA and rent a car to get to a meeting, and then got snarled in traffic trying to get south to Torrance and Palos Verdes and almost missed the meeting entirely
  15. 6 months ago. The airport sucks, but I’m specifically talking about flight and destination options. You can take LAX -> Anywhere in a direct flight domestically. Try taking OKC -> DTW and you’ll be going OKC south to DFW and then back north to Detroit for example. Or Jacksonville to Phoenix and you are going JAX -> MIA/MCO -> PHX
  16. I should have put a finer point on it and said “most important and biggest player ever” as I’m actually completely uninterested in the conversation around the technicals of woman’s basketball skills. Like MJ, CC undeniably made her league a household name and legitimatized it for the mainstream which allowed the mainstream money to overflow the wnba’s hitherto meager coffers, allowing for a) current legacy players to get a huge pay raise and b) make the wnba a legitimate career aspiration for women thus swelling the pipeline of great young talent and nurturing the young girls who would historically focus on making partner at their Big4 firm after college because the wnba only offered a $70k median salary, no endorsements, and you had to live in Bulgaria in the summer to make a living.
  17. CLT connections will test a man's mettle. Many moons ago (I'll age myself here) before there was a direct flight from DFW to TRI, you had to connect in CLT. Invariably CLT will a) underestimate how much buffer is needed and b) land you at a gate on the otherside of the airport than your connecting departure gate. There were multiple times I had to suck up my pride and look stupid running at a full gait with bags to make the last flight out for the night and being the last man on the American Eagle Bombardiers and hacking up a lung as doors shut. One of the most underrated features when looking to move and live in a new city I think is people don't evaluate the airport situation. If you have to do a decent amount of business travel a first tier airport is worth it's weight in gold. Once you've lived in DFW, IAH, ORD, ATL, LGA/JFK/EWR, LAX, SFO, it's hard to move to a city with an airport that nearly always requires a connection to a hub first-- it makes travel an all day event and pretty inefficient. CLT punches above it's weight to be honest, for all the crap I give it.
  18. This is the decorum. You stay to the right and give a path for those who want to pass, not unlike driving slow/speed limit in the right lane and leaving the left lane(s) for those who need to be at a faster speed.
  19. I mean, it's absurd in hindsight and probably absurd at the time for Barkely to think he's better than MJ (to your point about how professionals are hardwired). However, there are players you can count on one hand who can have that Barkley level delusion in the WNBA. Anything beyond those 4 or 5 (including Angela Reese), and you are in the realm of a reality that is so DeLuLu, the sheer complexity of it makes MCU's multiverse phase look like a children's book story.
  20. I have a pair of crocodlie tecovas (black and not quite $2k) and I love them and they are about a year old. They were a gift and they slam and go hard. I've got some of the cheap spectrum tecovas that are about 6 or 7 years old at this point and they aren't falling apart is the best I can say for them. Maybe with all the VC or PE money they got their quality has gone up is all I can surmise from my experience.
  21. 100% depends on the family for sure.
  22. After typing the above I think I get the conflict which comes from the word I used "value". I think the reason the league is rejecting Clark (like the body rejects a transplanted organ needed to live) is because the implication that they are not valuable. A lot of ink has been spilled about how crappy WNBA was before Clark-- all the same business metrics on revenue and salaries and attendance and popularity in the gutter) and the implication and unsaid message I think they are hearing is: "you women are not valuable", "you, as an individual basketballer, are not valuable", and "you, without Caitlin Clark, are not valuable". And not to get too political or controversial, but it seems like it's an easy leap to go from that to, "black, queer women are not valuable", and "without a straight white hope, a queer black league is not valuable" And when people feel devalued it's a core identity crisis and emotional and psychological issue that can be existential. So that helps explain to me why it feels irrational -- because when most people feel that deeply wounded, most aren't going to respond with logic and math. I could be way off but just a thought that unlocked for me as I wrote the last post and that word "value" jumped out at me.
  23. I think the big difference is that Tiger had to blow the field by 12 shots in order to have the amazing impact on the sport (e.g. growing the brand, growing the adverstising money, fan money, brands, merch, and ultimately purses). Caitlin Clark has done all that already without being 10x orders of magnitude better at basketball than the next woman. She's already brought the increased visibility, attention and money to the league and her peers. A hobbled Clark on a mediocre team having a struggling season (if that's even true) is still orders of magnitude more valuable and popular than a peer not-named Clark who is having a better season.
  24. Yep, I think we have a dynamic and situation, which is kinda interesting (or strange/weird, depending on your view) where we have fans and people who are MORE protective and upset and disturbed by the "hazing" or whatever you'd characterize as a catch-all word for all the garbage she's having to deal with being put on her by her inferiors in the league, than even she (the actual person being put through the crap firsthand) is. I think that actually points to her awesome character and mental fortitude and strength-- and it's likely the privilege of having a great support system, starting from her family and community probably when she was an amateur, which has been supplemented now with the best business and strategist minds money can buy from Nike, professional agents, media teams, etc.
×
×
  • Create New...