MitziMoto

Sama is the world's second most successful grifter. There's one guy ahead of him.

Because it has an emdash and people can't fathom that real people use emdashes. Like the LLMs didn't learn it from somewhere.

MCP isn't going anywhere. Some developers can't seem to see past their terminal or dev environment when it comes to MCP. Skills, etc do not replace MCP and MCP is far more than just documentation searching.

MCP is a great way for an LLM to connect to an external system in a standardized way and immediately understand what tools it has available, when and how to use them, what their inputs and outputs are,etc.

For example, we built a custom MCP server for our CRM. Now our voice and chat agents that run on elevenlabs infrastructure can connect to our system with one endpoint, understand what actions it can take, and what information it needs to collect from the user to perform those actions.

I guess this could maybe be done with webhooks or an API spec with a well crafted prompt? Or if eleven labs provided an executable environment with tool calling? But at some point you're just reinventing a lot of the functionality you get for free from MCP, and all major LLMs seem to know how to use MCP already.

PaperWM let's you define these types of per window rules in it's settings.

Same. Chrome on Manjaro with Wayland, just crashes.

My favorite setup so far is using the Claude code extension in VScode. All the power of CC, but it opens files and diffs in VScode. Easy to read and modify as needed.

For goodness sake, this is what makes it great!

This reminds me so much of the "old" internet where people would just make fun things for the hell of it.

To be fair, Google HAS shown "signs" of cracking down on this; but they haven't actually done it in any useful capacity yet.

They call it "Site reputation abuse". https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-po...

This seems like a misunderstanding of Chapman's quote. I don't think he implied a compromise on safety or reliability, just speed and handling.

I am curious, did this small business actually provide the service you were searching for or not? If they do, then it sounds like it was ultimately useful.

Google has publicly admitted they cannot reliability determine the original source of a peice if content. This is a big problem for content creators.

Why are they doing maintenance right smack in the middle of a Monday afternoon!? Losing a crap ton of money right now.

> All these resources and can't even distinguish a link farm from a legitimate site? Doesn't sound believable.

The Google webspam team seems to prefer psychology over technology to solve the problem, especially recently. Nearly everything that's come out of Matt Cutt's mouth in the last 18 months or so has been a scare tactic.

IMO all this does is further encourage the development of "churn and burn" websites from blackhats who have being penalized in their business plan. So why should I risk all the time and effort it takes to generate quality web content when it could all come crashing down because an imperfect and overzealous algorithm thinks it's spam? Or worse, some intern or non-google employee doing a manual review wrongly decides the site violates webmaster guidelines?

> is it really true that hitting the "Spam" button on a site like Yahoo or Gmail informs the sender of your email address?

Yes. The feedback loop shows the sender who marked the mail as spam.

> What is a user supposed to do in the case of an accidental bump of the "Spam" button? Is there really no way to undo the damage (both to the sender and to the willing recipient)?

There is no good solution, it kind of sucks for both the sender and the receiver. When you click that spam button, intentional or not, I can no longer send you email until going through a sometimes laborious process of working with the email service to get the email unblacklisted. If you really want to receive email again, send an email to the company/person and let them know you accidentally clicked the spam button so they can work it out with the email provider.

Gmail handles this the best IMO as it gives the user ~5 seconds to click "undo" before reporting the spam. As far as I can tell most other email clients are instantaneous.

Another problem is that in some mail clients like Outlook.com, the "spam" button is actually labeled "junk". People clicking "junk" probably think they're just deleting an email.

Thanks.

If it was just my wife and I like it has been, I wouldn't mind the risk. We've gotten this far. My fear is in hiring a new employee and having their livelihood dependent on my business that has a single point of failure. Granted, it's a fairly entry level customer service position so it's not like someone's going to retire from the job, but I would still feel just awful if I had to let them go because we had no traffic due to something like a "mysterious" Google penalty that I can't figure out and will get no help from Google on.

I'm hoping we can use the free time we'll have from mundane tasks to think about how to make the business work with other traffic sources.

I run an SEO fueled business and it scares the crap out of me; especially as we hire our first full time employee. The fact that Google could literally shut down my business at any time keeps me up at night.

My business started as a hobby and has grown significantly (due to SEO ranking improvements) over the last couple years. We're now at a point where we (my wife and I) can no longer handle the volume that's coming in. Our options right now are a) hire an employee to help reduce the load or b) remain small and stagnant because Google could cut the cord any minute.

I'm trying like hell to find alternate traffic streams like Adwords, Facebook, Mobile, etc, but I can't quite figure out how to make a reasonable profit with them. So for now I guess I just have to take the risk. No guts, no glory.

And I don't understand why Amazon continues to let it happen. At that volume, surely they must know.

NASCAR fan here.

I think when NASCAR says they are the biggest "spectator" sport they mean that their individual events attract more spectators to one spot than other sports, which for many tracks is absolutely true but misleading. Capacity at Daytona for example is around 150,000 seats which is far more than the highest capacity NFL stadium (Redskins at 82000). With that said, Indianapolis motor speedway has attracted almost 250,000 race fans for the Indy 500, but unfortunately not in recent years.

Anyway, what NASCAR doesn't talk about is that there is only one race going on at one track on any given sunday, and with a few exceptions the sport only comes around once a year. Compare that to the 14+ NFL games that take place in any given week during the regular season and there's really not much of a comparison. The NFL blows them out of the water.

Where can we send feedback and feature requests? I absolutely love this concept, but it's just lacking what I would call essential features to make it really useable. I'm sure you're working hard on it.

As an advertiser, Reddit's problem is their ad platform. It is the most awful thing I have ever had the displeasure of losing money with.

Google should offer some kind of revenue sharing (Like Youtube) to the sites it's "stealing" visitors from by showing information directly. And you should have to opt into it through something like webmaster tools.

Jesus, this would be awful. Not every email with an unsubscribe link is spam, not even close. Every time you hit that spam button you put the sender's business in jeopardy. As someone who relies on email to make their business work, I provide multiple unsubscribe links in all my emails, please use them!

This scares the crap out of me. There are some really shady people in my industry and I'm sure they wouldn't think twice about launching a negative SEO campaign against me. I wish Google and Matt Cutts would address this for real.

I agree that Rap Genius should have been penalized here, but so should literally every other lyrics site on the net. I've done SEO in hyper competitive spaces in the past and honestly, the system is broken.

Google and Cutts love to preach this "Create value and quality content and you'll rank high" bullocks but it doesn't work like that. When you have a high number of well funded competitors who are all playing dirty, there is NO POSSIBLE WAY to compete with them with white hat tactics. You either play hardball yourself and risk a ban or you play nice and get creamed in the SERPs.

It's really a rock | hard place situation in some niches.

Oh, and I just saw the founders made this statement:

"We are working with Google right now to resolve this. They've been really great, helping us identify changes we need to make, even on Christmas. We’re working on it as fast as we can, and expect to be back on Google very soon."

WHAT? What makes these guys so special that they actually get help from Google. I think that pisses me off more than anything. There are a ton of webmasters out there trying to do the right thing SEO wise who get banned or penalized but could never, ever, get personal help from Google. We don't even get the courtesy of knowing why we've been banned most of the time. (Although to be fair this has gotten much better in GWT).

Sounds like it was an "accident". The web server served up the source code rather than compiling the PHP, which someone then saved.

Relax, all he said was that it removes the personalization, which it does.

I disagree. I've been in those "4AM" situations before and handled them well.

I can't interview to save my life.

These are two completely different mindsets.

Not to mention getting a job or not getting a job has the potential to be life changing. There are very few developer meetings or code reviews that will have such a huge impact on one's quality of life.

Your "pretty piece of paper" is essentially like getting your drivers license. It allows you get behind the wheel, but it makes no guarantees you'll be any good at driving. In the end it really doesn't matter much which DMV you go to.