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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • A lot of the botting is just copy and pasting previous actual human topics and comments though, so they’re not really wrong.

    Actual bot created content is pretty boring, and never “contributes” in a way that would make for a useful Google result. Your Google result may be a bot’s comment, but if that comment is answering a question of some kind there’s a 99% chance the comment was originally written by a human.


  • The idea was first documented in a memo that Metcalfe wrote on May 22, 1973, where he named it after the luminiferous aether once postulated to exist as an “omnipresent, completely passive medium for the propagation of electromagnetic waves.”

    Hmm, I really thought there would be some clever name I didn’t understand, but it really is that aether.