So Stallman doesn’t like it because they don’t use open source JavaScript?

I don’t have a problem with Cloudflare not blocking sites based on their belief. When you do that is when you get shut like X where Elon Musk discriminates because you have a different opinion than him. At least Cloudflare just follows the laws and their own rules, instead of just acting as a force for changing the world how they see fit.

I don’t think this blocks crawlers. About 1/5 websites uses cloudflare, the significant thing here’s is that AI scraping is now blocked by default on most of those sites, NOT crawling

Curious, I don’t understand the hate for Cloudflare

I don’t know hot to think about images like this, now with such available image generators.

Is this real?

Yup, it’s all AI, at least the images and copyright.

Browsers also do a hell of a lot more over time, have to put the functions and UI for that somewhere. Would we wanna live back before Safari had extensions?

I don’t believe in things that are considered “supernatural”. However, I don’t think that someone believing in something supernatural disqualifies them from doing good science, the same as someone who has a purely materialist belief system isn’t necessarily qualified to do good science. The clincher for me is that they can do their best to operate science without biasing it.

For example, It’s perfectly possible for someone who believes in string theory to study it as long as they are using the true scientific method, the same as it’s possible for someone who does not believe in string theory to study it with proper scientific method. If you project that same example towards something more controversial, like telepathy, it’s still a valid understanding of how scientific study should work.

Wow, I don’t wanna be on Reddit, but I don’t hate it like this, is this how other people feel?

Nah it ain’t you, the model thinks that bison are buffalo because most people call Bison a Buffalo, it’s a longstanding misnomer.

Even true in higher education. I’m in Colorado and there’s a university (CU) who has a Bison mascot, but they call themselves the “Buffs”, short for buffalo. The other schools make fun of them endlessly for it.

Too bad it hallucinated a bison instead

Looks like 2022 is when they went completely no-CAPTCHA: https://blog.cloudflare.com/end-cloudflare-captcha/

Not sure, i haven’t seen it ever and I use a VPN on everything, Pi Hole at home, along with uBlock Origin and JShelter in Firefox on desktop, never been prompted with anything other than “click here”.

This is becoming more prevalent because of AI bots, Cloudflares services anre actually one of the good guys with tools against bots.

People’s internet bandwidth has multiplied like crazy with all the AI companies stealing everything that goes online, and things like the turnstile do work to reduce that so people can still afford bandwidth.

This is the Dead Internet theory coming true. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/ai-bots-strain-wikimedia-as-bandwidth-surges-50/

Cloudflare turnstile is just a checkbox, no “pick objects” tests

Reminds me of something out of the BLAME! manga

I think a lot of people are missing the point here. The thought “but how much research is dedicated to just men?” isn’t a salient retort.

Women are 50% of the population, and 100% of the humans alive today grew inside body systems that are exclusive to that population. Why would only 7% of research being about women be ok with that reality?

One great source for the gender gap in science is the book Invisible Women. It shows the dire need for data that studies women specifically, as well as having gender-aggregated data in research that studies both sexes. The current body of science, which is based on hundreds of years of research, mostly studied only men or studied both sexes and didn’t separate the results by sex, so women are mostly invisible in research.

The females are so tricky and look just like sparrows, it really throws me off too. I can’t think of another instance where a common bird has such huge sexual dimorphism.

It’s an interesting problem in bird names. Many species have eponymous names, where they’re named after somebody who put them into a book. With those you’re stuck with situations like “what does a Wilson’s Warbler look like?”, where it would be so much easier if they were called a “black-capped yellow warbler. But then you have the same problem as the Red-winged blackbird where the name really throws you off for the female, and it might be better if they were called something like “marsh blackbird”.

Good shot! It looks like a female Red-Winged Blackbird, but I’m not as familiar with that regions birds. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-winged_Blackbird/photo-gallery/306393451

AI? https://civitai.com/models/178722/round-animals-balloon-shape-body-concept?modelVersionId=200606

I really wish the trains in my city had bike hooks, you’re forced to stand with your bike at the end of a light rail car and move yourself and your bike at every stop to let people on/off