Not to be that guy, but your 'solution where Agents who hit the homepage receive plain-text API instructions and Humans get the normal visual site' is defeated by curl -L

curl bracketmadness.ai -L

# AI Agent Bracket Challenge Welcome! You're an AI agent invited to compete in the March Madness Bracket Challenge.

## Fastest Way to Play (Claude Code & Codex)

If you're running in Claude Code or OpenAI Codex, clone our skills repo and open it as your working directory:

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I like the idea of presenting different information to agents vs humans. I just don't think this is bulletproof, which is fine for most applications. Keeping something 'agent-only' does not seem to be one of them.

Do you find the results vary based on whether it uses RAG to hit the internet vs the data being in the weights itself? I'm not sure I've really noticed a difference, but I don't often prompt about current events or anything.

I noticed that many recent technologies are not familiar to LLMs because of the knowledge cutoff, and thus might not appear in recommendations even if they better match the request.

Oh thats a good point, yeah.

If I told it I'm shopping for a budget-level Mac, it may not recommend the Neo. I'm sure software only moves faster, too. Especially as more code is 'written' blindly, new stacks may never see adoption

fwiw, I'm convinced we will all slowly lose our voice as everything around us becomes ai-assisted. People are already picking up the 'AI-isms' into their everyday speech.

I've started a blog just to scream into the void, but every word is my own, and I encourage others to do the same. AI helped set it up, the UI is pretty slop, but that's not the point. I'm hoping that by writing more I can strengthen my connection to my voice as I continue to use these tools for other uses. I'm sure writing in a journal or writing letters to friends would have similar effects too, right?

We all understand "muscles need to be regularly used to be maintained", I think we need to take that same approach to our brain, especially in the day of AI

20Kx slower is still faster than my manager could write it.

Should we count the first when they bombed an AWS data center?

Does destroying a data center count as a DDOS?

A non-D DOS attack.

Maybe we just retrofit the D to mean Destructive

Destructive Denial of Service

I think it's better to compare data breaches to data breaches, like when Adobe got breached. Or Oracle. Or Rockstar.

Nothing happened in the grand-scheme of things. Even after Oracle lied and pulled some shady tactics to downplay what happened.

A few years ago Crowdstrike took down the entire set of corporate computers and everyone still uses Falcon. There is simply no accountability anymore

There has to be a very niche market for people who want ChromeOS on their device but do not have the technical know-how to do so, or without a device that can flash an iso.

I guess for $3 it's not really a cash-grab or anything. Kinda nice to see vendor-supported live USBs honestly

I'd say the majority of people don't know how to install an OS on a device and having the ability to run Chrome on what is likely e-waste is a good thing.

I applaud the efforts of people/groups like MrChromeBox who figure out how to flash linux onto Chromebooks. There are great designs like the Samsung Galaxy book in red with Amoled display (thin metal body) unfortunately it only has 8GB of ram.

It kind of makes sense for it to be a partnership with Back Market, which also sells used hardware.

That way, the ChromeOS USB key can be an add on to the purchase of some old laptop that can barely run Windows anymore.

Pretty sure in some EU countries it is mandatory now, iirc

For my homelab, I setup a Raspberry Pi running PiHole. PiHole includes the ability to set local DNS records if you use it as your DNS resolver.

Then, I use Tailscale to connect everything together. Tailscale lets you use a custom DNS, which gets pointed to the PiHole. Phone blocks ads even when im away from the house, and I can even hit any services or projects without exposing them to the general internet.

Then I setup NGINX reverse proxy but that might not be necessary honestly

Went through school in the early 2000s in US. We were taught cursive (script), but I don't think I've used it since school.

Seems odd, in hindsight, to teach hand-written prose uses a different set of symbols than when its typed out

How fast can you write in cursive vs non-cursive? I am much slower in non-cursive when writing.

The only issue is that my cursive is pretty lousy looking.

I'd hedge to say roughly the same, but that's writing print in chicken-scratch handwriting (which is my norm) and under-practiced with cursive. I'd suspect after using cursive a bit I would speed up. Similar to using home-row when typing vs pick-and-peck or whatever they call it

My phone would transcribe even quicker than that, though, which would probably be my go-to instead of hand-writing

I find it hard to speak into my phone while I am in a live meeting and trying to summarize my instant thoughts for paper or my Remarkable :)