For us Linux users (BTW), this wtfismyip script just dumps a text string. Just save it to /usr/local/bin or some other location in your path and make it executable, and install the lynx text www browser if you don’t have it installed already.

There are a lot of ways to do this, but this works and I’m lazy…

root@tux:~# cat $(which wtfismyip)
#!/bin/bash

printf "%s\n" "Your fucking IP address is $(lynx -dump -nolist http://wtfismyip.com/text)."

root@tux:~# wtfismyip
Your fucking IP address is 13.107.226.41.

Not claiming it’s the reason since it clearly isn’t, only that it will help drive traffic to commercial AI products.

If RAM and GPUs were cheap people like us would be more likely to set up local LLMs to prevent our data from being productized by power-grabbing corporations.