Or you can have all of those things but also not block cloudflare. Because blocking cloudflare is in the interest of just a few company's profits and is unrelated to everything else you mentioned.

Nah, I didn't miss anything. I've spent enough time in the EU (including the poorer parts that most tourists don't visit) to have a crystal clear perspective on the real situation.

Yeah, no sure, generalizing "the reality of living and working under an oppressive bureaucratic state" across the EU because specifically Cloudflare being unavailable in Spain for couple of hours a week is totally a nuanced, measured and accurate take and representation of how it is to live and work in the EU in 2026.

I recommend 14 days in jail for the site owner, and, if egregarious, the engineer as well.

Not life ruining but just enough to be annoying. Just like their website.

Or if they ever bring back the "ignore this domain" feature so we can ignore ai slop and copycat sites.

It's why I went to Kagi.

I never slept as bad in my life as when I had a single can of coca cola at 8-9 pm and went to bed at 11-12pm

I did this for a while working nights until I caught on. The nights I didn't have a can were much better.

As a movie consumer I am not interested in AI movies. You don't get to just keep the existing market and switch to AI. You are creating a new market of AI video consumers and hoping it's big enough.

I see this as an extension of the Netflix model: content for people who aren’t actually watching the movie

Why spend the effort making a show for people on their phones? Will they even notice if it’s slop?

It's considered polite in American culture.

Why lament it? I've been using Inoreader for over a decade after Google Reader went away. And I gladly pay for it year after year.

I had to run Jenkins to build my code. In the snow. And uphill on git pull and deploy.

The markets seem to agree with you and are pricing accordingly.

I've worked with a type of (anti?) developer in my career that seems to only be able to add code. Never change or take it away. It's bizarre. There's some calculation bug, then a few lines down some code which corrects it instead of just fixing the original lines.

It's bizzare, and as horrible as you might imagine.

And it's been more than one or two people I've seen do this.

Now they have agents.

People need to understand that code is a liability. LLMs hasn't changed that at all. You LLM will get every bit as confused when you have a bug somewhere in the backend and you then work around it with another line of code in the front end. line of code

They can always generate a new backend prototype from scratch.

This sounds like some kind of learned risk aversion, like they don’t want to assume the responsibility of altering whats already there.