Why “Internet” is being discussed
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As a person who almost certainly has ADHD, AI has done wonders to my social skills. You can either analyze what went wrong when you accidentally blurted out something somewhat i…
by vovavili · Oct 31, 2026
My router got hacked the other month (left web interface open to internet) after being exposed to the internet and the persistence left behind was overly commented LLM artifacts…
by deadnomore · Oct 31, 2026
I think the problem we have is an ill-defined concept of "human consumption". I understand the desire (instinct?) to ban crawlers, but I'd argue that bots serving human needs ar…
by jwr · Oct 31, 2026
AI dev environment gets its own SSD. The second SSD stays in, but since it's encrypted there's no way to exfiltrate the data unless you're of interest to nation state attackers.…
by revolvingthrow · Oct 31, 2026
I hope it's not because I used chatgpt to find signals outside of the internet and it successfully connected to voyager 1 somehow lmao
by chiengineer3 · Oct 31, 2026
> Not sure why they do this, anyone has an idea? Like, the Internet is just there, I can go and watch porn whenever I like. It's HBO. They are known for this. But they definitel…
by stuxnet79 · Oct 31, 2026
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The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that comprises private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information services and resources, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, discussion groups, internet telephony, streaming media and file sharing. Read more on Wikipedia