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Also if your job is Dominatrix. That's it.

The thing that confuses me is, wouldn't a whitelist for federated instances and request frequency throttling at the account level solve this issue?

I suppose this would require that the client not have a public front end that keeps full navigation functionality, but for a smaller instance that seems like an easy sacrifice to make in exchange for stability.

"But then how will new instances get federated?" maybe they have to actually talk to the admins of other instances to get vouched in to the whitelist. Just because the network is distributed doesnt mean it needs to be fully inclusive by default, and in fact it explicitly isn't.

I'm assuming I'm missing something super basic that makes all this not enough, bots spoofing the requests with the credentials of a whitelisted instance maybe?

Seems like maybe the instances should have encrypted keys that handshake each other with batch requests.

Am I on to something or just wildly gesticulating?

Yes, closing your sinuses is a natural reflex response for humans, and people have greater or lesser at will control over it.

The nose holding for swimming is more about how strong that sinus closure is and endurance. People with larger sinus openings have a more difficult time keeping them closed and resisting pressure like water entering from jumping into a pool. Also some people have a hard time keeping them closed for any prolonged period.

In other words, you just have totally ripped sinuses breh.

Could this be the run-up to Apple acquiring Perplexity? I remain convinced that Apple defending their internal AI division shows they are close to a major acquisition and are just waiting for a valuation dip on one of the major competitors. Distribution is a solved problem for Apple, what they need is proven usecases and a competitive tech stack.

That said, search and consolidating multiple model APIs isn't a great match for what Apple needs, and their optics aren't great. My bet is still on Apple acquires Anthropic in 2026.

hahahaha, what a mess.

the downvotes are for "neat"

Hmmm... let's find the best ways to both make money from this program and yet somehow the targeted individuals manage not to get detained.

It is actually an old and well established britishism

https://youtu.be/dU3ru09HTng

Welp, looky there, an expansion port right on the bridge of the headset with PCIE compatibility.

It is nitpicking, but in legal terms you could say he has shares in the company but not stocks. Stocks refers specifically to publicly traded shares, that is to say shares sold on a stock market. Shares is the more broad term as it can refer not only to stocks but also private equity units of various types. Valve is a Limited Liability Corporation, or LLC, which have Membership Units as the type of shares held by owners, which differs from stocks both in terms of tax treatment and limitations on how they can be transacted.

Offer him the option to transition Valve to a workers cooperative. Boom, he would no longer be a billionaire.

aren't I glad I just bought an Onn instead.