MadModder

I had one time yesterday whan I couldn't log in. But I'm not surprised, because other fora I'm on have had much worse problems for loggins and slowdowns ongoing for the last couple months or more. The reason is AI bot scrapers for every competing version of generative AI are hitting anything of interest on the web to download. One forum site I frequent had 24,000 hits in a day and that shut it down completely until the server could be reconfigured. It's getting crazy. Everybody wants to make money off of AI, or their version of it.

Honestly I do wonder how much longer the Internet will be useful for anything. Hard to imagine it in 3 years with all the financial and geopolitical competition when AI becomes more and more sophisticated. Throw in AI hacker bots, AI generated viruses, AI spoofing and AI identity mimicking and deceptions, it'll be interesting times to say the least!

Back to brick and mortar stores, and pen and paper communications. Time to load up on USPS "Forever" stamps 

Same from North Wales...i am in tonight thou.

i am relieved that it is not just me. I haven;t a clue what i am doing and only like computers when they do what I want.

Yes,  this is the first time in 3 or 4 days the madmodder site has responded with a site instead of hanging.

I guess the mods are having issues.

Bill

Edit; mind you this is the first time in 3 or 4 days my head has been clear enough to care.... Somekindof bloody lurgy!

OKMO Microcosm M31B Vertical Single Cylinder Steam Engine & P71 Mini Pump and DIY Homemade Water Fountain Feature that I silver brazed up and mounted onto a plinth.

I did a fair bit of modding to mount the engine and made the condensate pot from plumbing bits and pieces and did a lot of piping work from the pump to the water feature as well as the steam piping. A lot of fun running this setup.

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