"luckily all my projects are now EOL as I am retired."

I doubt that everything you ever worked on is end-of-life. Some of it is still out there...

Correct, I have thousands of tank temperature controllers still out there, still working fine where the End Of Life was 3 years ago. EOL just means support for spares and software updates cannot be guaranteed past that point, and is mainly tied to the EOL of the specific micro-controller used.

It's end-of-life.

If it it still running out there, it's runningin zombie state.

Better have kept those environments.

Your short form comment is in violation of EU Directive 20.29A. Agents have been dispatched to your home to collect your devices.

One way is criminalizing the victims, another is going after the platforms. I'm willing to wager a bet on who will be the ones receiving the enforcements here :)

Yeah like X was raided in France 2 days ago. For different reasons by the way. I do think the enforcement will be focused on the platforms too.

X France was raided for creating and distributing child porn, not for being addictive

He meant that as an indicating on how they're enforcing things. If the whole "arrest the victim" thing was as grand-parent "joked about", they wouldn't go after X France, but instead whoever was viewing the content instead.

Which transit effort did they derail in Nashville? There was nothing on the horizon.

Who is “we?” Why are you preventing women from having pockets? I’m certainly not.

And yet, they lack pockets.

Mysteries abound.

ASUS routers with Merlin firmware work well in a mesh configuration.

What does that have to do with H1B engineers, who typically end up writing crud apps for banks?.

Who else is going to pretend to rewrite my ancient CRUD apps?

Claude Code?

What do you mean? It's one of the most popular sites

I won't call it dead, but it is declining. Their various sources of traffic are now regurgitating Wikipedia Content (and other 3rd party sources) via uncited/unlinked AI "blurbs"...instead of presenting snippets of Wikipedia contents with links to Wikipedia to read more.

It's not the only reason their traffic is declining, but it seems like a big one.

Who cares if the traffic is declining? I don’t find Wikipedia useful because it gets lots of visits, I find it useful for the information it contains.

The problem has more to do with editors. The theory is that less visits leads to less editors in the long run.

I may be wrong, but I don’t think the people that edit Wikipedia are the same people that are content with half truths from LLMs and thus no longer visiting the site. So I kinda doubt it matters much.

That’s certainly true for stack overflow, but in their case the moderators were very active in getting the negative feedback loop going.

Also, Stack Overflow is a commercial website, while Wikipedia is a free (as in freedom) project. Editing Wikipedia feels like you're contributing towards "an ideal", that you're giving back something to humanity, instead of just helping somebody else getting richer.

Visits drive revenue. Declining traffic is declining revenue. Not an issue yet, but eventually...

People have been talking about wikipedia's decline since like 2008. It seems fine.

That's just plain old citogenesis[0][1], and has been in play for at least two decades, so I don't think it's any evidence of decline.

[0] https://xkcd.com/978/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...

It's still working for me?

FYI calling something "asinine" is not an argument.

A widely transmitted identifier that tons of organizations need to ask you for taxes is not secret. It's used to precisely identify who you claim to be. It's your username. There's not much to say about also treating it as your password except that it's asinine. It's like treating your first name/last name as a secret password.

The middle of the lane is where cars drip years of oil and coolant.