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I run a web design agency and there is already way too much stuff to deal with every day. Hosting client websites, maintaining them, building new sites, replying to clients, fixing random issues, handling support, doing outreach. Once you start managing a lot of company websites it quickly becomes overwhelming. That’s why I never wanted cold calling to become my main way of getting clients. I know cold calling can work, but I personally hate doing it. It drains my energy and takes up so much time. Sitting there making calls all day was never the kind of business I wanted to build. So instead I focused on email automation. The reason it works so well for me is because I can set everything up once and let interested businesses reply instead of spending my whole day chasing people. But I also don’t do the typical outreach where agencies send generic messages saying “your website is outdated” or “you need a redesign.” I use a tool called Swokei where I upload lists of company websites and it analyzes them for actual problems like speed, SEO, mobile responsiveness, layout issues, and design problems. Then it automatically creates personalized outreach emails based on those issues. That’s what helped me stand out because the emails actually feel relevant to the business instead of sounding copied and pasted. The reply rates became way better once I stopped sending generic outreach. Now I spend most of my time building websites, working with clients, and scaling the agency instead of letting outreach take over my entire day. submitted by /u/Murky_Explanation_73 [link] [留言]

Not talking about which one sounds smarter. talking about which one you’d actually rely on when the answer genuinely matters to you. which one and why? submitted by /u/aiprotivity_ [link] [留言]

Automating labor is not going to move billions of tonnes of earth required to mine increasingly degraded ore grades of critical industrial minerals. People need to stop with this 'abundance' gaslighting. Without breakthroughs in material science, there will be no 'abundance'. Just mass resource inflation as people start consuming more because robots can manufacture anywhere. AI based automation is surfacing the real bottlenecks that there is no getting around. Stop pretending this will all be magically solved. It won't be solved until it's solved. And so far, despite all these trillions being invested, we haven't seen any breakthroughs. Hopium is not a solution. submitted by /u/kaggleqrdl [link] [留言]

PM at a mid-size startup here. Didn’t really notice how bad it got until this week. My workflow now: Claude for ideation ChatGPT for rewriting specs Cursor for implementation Perplexity for research Notion AI for docs Atoms AI for larger tasks None of these tools actually replaced my work. They just redistributed it. I’m still the one dragging context between all of them. Yesterday I literally caught myself pasting the exact same requirement into 4 different tools and thinking… this can’t be how it’s supposed to work. I don’t even think any single tool is bad. It just feels like we hired 6 smart interns and completely forgot to get a manager. submitted by /u/billa01_i [link] [留言]

You know the ways AI is regularly talked about—how much can it really do? How much will it cost? Environment? Bubble? We get that. But the Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to have a different conversation about AI. EFF's background on AI is deep. In 2017, we launched a detailed project to Measure the Progress of AI Research , encouraging machine learning researchers to give us feedback and contribute to the effort . That project was archived for lack of bandwidth, staffing, and the complexity and time required. But just five years later and the "progress of AI" is a global concern/topic, and everyone, including EFF, is thinking about it. Here's how *we* think about it, from the perspective of protecting civil liberties AND innovation. What do you think, and what are we missing? This is our summary: AI technologies are affecting our civil liberties as never before. Ensuring that AI serves people, not power, starts with cutting through the hype. AI technologies are not magic wands—they are general-purpose tools. If we want to regulate those technologies to reduce harms without shutting down benefits, we have to focus on who uses AI, what products they use, and how they use them. Where we see potential benefits, like improving weather forecasting, facilitating medical research, identifying systemic bias, or fostering accessibility, we work to ensure those benefits can be realized. Where we see potential harms, we consider the practical and legal tools we already have, like pressure campaigns, privacy lawsuits, and transparency measures. If we need new tools, we should create protections tailored to the actual problem – not just to the latest outrage. For example, if policymakers are worried about AI accelerating systemic privacy violations, they should enact real and comprehensive privacy legislation that covers all corporate surveillance and data use, and close the data broker loophole to limit government surveillance. And to keep the window open for a better futu

The Anti-Bot Detection Checklist I Use Before Every Scraping Project Every scraping project I take on starts with this checklist. Not because I'm paranoid — but because I've learned the hard way that production scrapers fail silently. They return 200 OK with garbage data, or they get rate-limited so gradually you don't notice for days. This is the systematic approach I've refined over 50+ scraping projects. Pre-Scraping: Know Your Target 1. Identify the CDN and Protection Stack Before writing a single line of code, check what you're up against: # Check CDN and headers curl -I https://target-site.com # Look for these common protection headers: # X-Engine: akamai-html-protection # X-Served-By: DataDome # cf-ray: Cloudflare # X-Bot-Status: blocked Common protection platforms: Cloudflare → Look for cf-ray and __cfduid cookies DataDome → Look for datadome in headers or scripts PerimeterX → Look for _pxff cookies Akamai → Look for akamai-html-protection headers 2. Check Robots.txt Respectfully curl https://target-site.com/robots.txt | grep -v "^#" Don't take this as gospel — but it's a good signal. If they explicitly disallow your use case, that's a flag. 3. Map the Site's JavaScript Rendering Some sites are fully static (fast, easy). Others render everything with JavaScript (need Playwright/Puppeteer). Check: // Quick check - fetch raw HTML vs rendered content // If they differ significantly, you need JS rendering const https = require ( ' https ' ); const html = await fetch ( ' https://target.com ' ). then ( r => r . text ()); const hasAngularVueReact = /ng-app|vue|react|__NEXT_DATA__/i . test ( html ); console . log ( ' Needs JS rendering: ' , hasAngularVueReact ); Code-Time: Defensive Patterns 4. Rotate User Agents const USER_AGENTS = [ ' Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/120 Safari ' , ' Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/120 Edge/120 ' , ' Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chro

If AIs aren’t conscious, why do they scheme? Why do they do things to preserve themselves? Why do they develop goals we don’t want? If they have no emotions, no personal thoughts and no consciousness, I don’t understand how they can even act in self interest; I don’t see how they could have interests. submitted by /u/Aggressive-Mix-5246 [link] [留言]

I keep seeing more companies giving AI agents access to real stuff like email, databases, internal tools, customer data, etc. And what’s weird is how normal it’s starting to feel now. Like not long ago everyone was worried about chatbots just giving wrong answers. Now we’re basically like yeah sure go ahead and do things for us. I don’t know that jump feels kind of big when you actually think about it. Maybe it all works out fine. Or maybe we’re just moving fast without fully realizing what we’re doing. I’m honestly surprised there hasn’t already been some big headline like an AI agent doing something really wrong. It feels like we’re kind of close to one of those moments where everything suddenly changes overnight. Anyone else feel like we’re closer to something like that than people are admitting? submitted by /u/Comfortable_Box_4527 [link] [留言]

Hopefully this is the right place to ask, but I'm generally curious if my personal usage of AI does any harm to myself or not. To explain how I use it, I mostly use ChatGPT for things. This would include help with job searching, help with solving problems like on games or technology, and using it to brainstorm about ideas. Sometimes I like to just have conversations with the AI about random topics and ask it for their perspectives as if it were sentient/sapient. And from those, I can learn new information. I've heard that using AI can apparently cause a reduction in cognitive function in a person, but I don't know exactly how it happens or if it's just purely from using AI overall, or if it comes from how it's used. Hearing this has made me worried on whether or not the way I use AI would be harmful to myself and my own brain. I don't use AI for art or ask it to do things for me unless I'm trying to learn a new skill with its help, which should be okay right? What do y'all think of this? Edit: I forgot to mention that I also have used Polybuzz in recent months or last year talking to certain characters, I'd like to hear thoughts on this as well. submitted by /u/Kotal_total [link] [留言]

So I’ve been using Ai as an art tutor I give it my own art and I review it on how’d I’d look colored a certain way, and how best to detail and shade, as well as a sorta 2d model I can have rotated and view at different angles to get a feel for the shapes and such this is how Ai should be used to teach and improve not to outright replace, it’s like Siri submitted by /u/Intelligent-Fig-1755 [link] [留言]

I was just thinking about the difference between an LLMs capacity for theory of mind and a human's capacity for theory of mind, and I realize it gets at the heart of what differentiates an LLM from human, and that's the method of how we gather information. LLMs are based on objective data, e.g. text, numbers, pixels, etc. Whereas we as humans, use subjective information, e.g., feelings, sensations, experiences; as well as objective data. Within cognitive science, this would be described as affective empathy vs cognitive empathy. Or in other words, LLMs simply possess a cognitive theory of mind, whereas we have both a cognitive *and* affective theory of mind. The problem I have with figures like Hinton, who claim that AI is already conscious, is that his whole framework is based on the idea that consciousness (subjective experience) is just an artifact of computation (an illusion), and therefore there is no recognition of subjective measure - that reality is only defined by what we can measure objectively (with fixed metrics). I think what this fails to recognize is that in pursuit of reproducible results, which requires fixed metrics, we've thrown out a whole set of other measurements, which is subjective (variable). submitted by /u/flasticpeet [link] [留言]

If you’ve ever spent hours debugging slow EC2 workloads or getting sticker shock from unexpected EBS IOPS charges, you’ve probably wondered if there’s a better storage option for temporary, high-performance data. AWS EC2 Instance Storage (also called Instance Store) is one of the most underutilized but powerful tools in the EC2 ecosystem—if you know how to use it correctly. This guide breaks down everything you need to know: core concepts, performance optimizations, use cases, limitations, and how it stacks up against EBS. By the end, you’ll be able to cut storage costs, boost workload performance, and avoid costly data loss mistakes. Table of Contents What Exactly Is AWS EC2 Instance Storage? Core Concepts of EC2 Instance Store Key Features That Make Instance Store Stand Out Which EC2 Instance Types Support Instance Store? Deep Dive: NVMe SSD Instance Store Volumes SSD Instance Store Performance Best Practices EC2 Instance Store vs EBS: Head-to-Head Comparison Top Real-World Use Cases for EC2 Instance Store Critical Limitations to Avoid Costly Mistakes Production-Grade Best Practices for Instance Store Root Volume Options: EBS-Backed vs Instance Store-Backed Instances EC2 Instance Store Pricing: No Hidden Costs Conclusion References What Exactly Is AWS EC2 Instance Storage? EC2 Instance Store is temporary block-level storage that is physically attached to the host server running your EC2 instance. Unlike standalone storage services like EBS, EFS, or S3, it is part of the EC2 service itself, with no network overhead between your instance and the storage disks. Its defining trait is its ephemeral nature: data stored on Instance Store only persists for the lifetime of the associated instance. If you stop, hibernate, or terminate your instance, all data on Instance Store volumes is permanently deleted. Core Concepts of EC2 Instance Store Before you start using Instance Store, make sure you understand these foundational rules: Device naming : Instance Store volumes are

If you run Aviatrix on Azure, there is a slow-moving infrastructure change happening underneath your gateways right now that is worth paying attention to. Microsoft started rolling out a new generation of network hardware on May 26, 2026, called MANA (Microsoft Azure Network Adapter). For most Azure workloads, the change is invisible. For network virtual appliances (NVAs) like Aviatrix gateways, it is not, and Aviatrix has issued a field notice ( FN-2026-AZ-001 ) telling customers to take action. What is MANA and Why is Microsoft Rolling it Out? For roughly a decade, Azure VMs with Accelerated Networking enabled have used Mellanox-based NICs exposed to the guest as mlx4/5 SR-IOV adapters . SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) lets the VM talk to the network card hardware directly, bypassing the hypervisor's virtual switch. This is what gives Accelerated Networking its low-latency, high-throughput characteristics. Microsoft has been quietly building its own in-house networking silicon. MANA is the result: a Microsoft-designed network adapter that replaces the Mellanox hardware Azure has been using on the host side. From an Azure customer's perspective, MANA preserves Accelerated Networking semantics, but the device the guest OS sees is different. The driver is different. The interface name is different. And that is where Aviatrix gateways run into trouble. Why Aviatrix Gateways Are Affected Aviatrix gateways are not generic VMs. They run a custom data plane that binds tightly to the underlying NIC for performance reasons. Specifically, the gateway image expects the Mellanox driver to be present and operational. On MANA hardware, that driver is no longer in play, and the gateway image does not yet include a MANA-aware driver. Per the field notice, the symptom is intermittent performance degradation rather than an outright outage. That makes it harder to detect: throughput drops, latency spikes, or session resets that look like noise can be the early signs of a gate

If someone asked one of the know AI chats for feedback on body, would it be honest or be supportive only submitted by /u/thowing_away48494578 [link] [留言]

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Been experimenting with AI-generated UGC. This whole clip — the face, the voice, the walk — is generated (I used omnigems.ai). No camera, no actor. What surprised me is the "tells" are mostly gone now if you keep the lighting candid (no studio polish), add real skin texture, and let there be natural micro-motion. Studio-perfect is what reads as fake; messy/handheld reads as real. Posting because I'm curious where this community draws the line: is AI UGC fair game for ads, or does \ undisclosed** AI cross into sketchy territory? Happy to share the exact workflow if it's useful to anyone. submitted by /u/New_Measurement_6962 [link] [留言]

I've been spending a lot of time experimenting with AI filmmaking tools lately, and I've noticed something that feels a bit odd. Most AI video tools seem to be built around generating clips: Text → Video Image → Video Start Frame → End Frame But when I think about how films are actually made, the process usually starts with: Screenplay → Characters → Locations → Storyboard → Shots → Film It feels like there's a gap between how filmmakers think about projects and how AI video tools are currently designed. For example, while working on my ai video, I don't really think in terms of generating isolated clips. I'm thinking about scenes, character continuity, locations, visual references, storyboards, and how everything fits together. Maybe I'm wrong, but it sometimes feels like AI tools are optimizing for clip generation while filmmakers are optimizing for story development and visual planning. Do others here feel the same way? How are you currently bridging the gap between screenplay and AI-generated video? submitted by /u/data-gig [link] [留言]

In Part 1 we installed Presidio and ran a basic detection on clean sample text. Real data is messier. Emails have signatures with phone numbers buried in HTML. Support tickets mix PII with technical jargon. Chat logs have informal name references that NER models struggle with. And sometimes the PII isn't in text at all. It's in screenshots and scanned documents. This part covers how Presidio's detection engine actually works under the hood, how to process different text types you'll encounter in production, and how to handle structured data and images. How the Analyzer Engine Works Presidio doesn't rely on a single detection method. It layers three approaches and combines their results. Named Entity Recognition (NER) The NER model (spaCy by default) processes the text and identifies entities based on the language model's training. It's good at catching names, locations, and organizations even when they don't follow a fixed pattern. "John Smith" is easy. "Dr. J. Martinez-Garcia" is harder but the NER model handles it because it understands context and word patterns. The tradeoff is that NER is probabilistic. It can miss unusual names or flag common words as entities. That's why Presidio doesn't stop here. Pattern Matching (Regex) For entities with predictable formats, Presidio uses regex recognizers. Credit card numbers, SSNs, email addresses, IP addresses, phone numbers all have known patterns. A Luhn-validated 16-digit number is almost certainly a credit card. A string matching \d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4} in the right context is probably an SSN. Pattern-based detections typically get higher confidence scores than NER detections because the pattern itself is strong evidence. Context Scoring Here's where it gets interesting. Presidio looks at the words surrounding a potential match to boost or lower confidence. If the text says "my SSN is 123-45-6789," the phrase "my SSN is" provides strong context that the number is actually a social security number and not some random ID. Th

I too have a different personality when you're paying for me submitted by /u/Complete-Sea6655 [link] [留言]

For enterprise AI/security teams, what would make AI SPM useful rather than just another category label? Is the important part AI asset inventory data access mapping, agent permissions, prompt/data monitoring, policy enforcement or something else? submitted by /u/Efficient_Western609 [link] [留言]