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I think a strategy that might punish such misbehaved crawlers is trapping them (via invisible ahrefs perhaps ... ?) and feeding them truckloads of garbage/disinformational/esoteric/plain wrong text.

Or perhaps all crawlers regardless of respecting robots. Honestly I am not interested in improving some FAANGish algorithm with blogposts intended for my friends.

No price information upfront, only shown after a lengthy quiz to ensure proper sunken cost while making the decision wether to buy or not. IMO disgusting.

Also, that fake loading bar while "building your personalized program" is cringe.

You had an opportunity to make your part in making the web a nice place again, yet you failed.

I hope someone from the Pirate Party in the European Parliament brings this threat into discussion there as soon as possible to spread awareness.

This needs to get to the European Parliament, we need legislation to protect web interoperability ASAP.

Some of the numbers seem unreal. Earlier this week I drank 3 beers (1,5L) which is an exception (i mostly do not drink at all) and the next day I had to take sick leave.

I wonder if the makers of AI may have some index of learning material to perhaps prove they did not infringe? Or they just throw everything they get their hands on to the LLM?

Don't put ads in -- show a "support Firefox development" button instead

Wow, I nearly forgot C-Dogs! Played the hell out of it on my 386. Later, when I got my first Pentium, the same with Tapan Kaikki.

If GPT5 is to put people out of work, I hope it will make unemployable the largest percentage people in the shortest amount of time. Only then there might be a chance we will change our way of measuring an individual's value by his or hers economic output.

Recently, I was at a local shopping center, and there were trash bins with the usual three color marked holes for recycling ... but under them, if you peeked close enough, you saw there was one collecting bag where everything went. Made me sad.

Never if money could be made.

I'd love if AI automated the 'talking to people' part of my job for me

Dammit, I just about came to terms that life has no point, and now such a surprise?

Excuse me, is it really the norm to just cut off people who are being let go, without the opportunity to say goodbye to their former colleagues? In my country it is 2 months notice by law...

WinUAE is the best one. Also you will need the rom image 'from a friend' -- search for 'amiga kickstart 1.3'

Sometimes I do! For introverts, family life should come with a safety label.

Articles like these make me want to stop doing everything and isolate in the basement for several months to study physics. Then I realize I have a family to feed and elderly parents to take care for.

Sigh, so many beautiful mysteries in the world, and only one life.

edit: A friend told me germans have the word "Sehnsucht" to describe such a feeling. So I guess it might be somewhat universal.

Just torrented Unreal Tournament '99. Indended to buy it, but Epic apparently wants to erase all traces of their old games from the web ...

Do not touch any computers (phone included). Just do it!

This is not good for my anxiety disorder. Sadly not joking.

"Calculus Made Easy" by Silvanus P. Thompson, now in public domain.

https://calculusmadeeasy.org/

The book is worth a peek just for this one chapter: https://calculusmadeeasy.org/1.html

The code should just "accidentally" leak somewhere. I bet there are lots of people outside of the U.S. who would subsequenty host it.

I think there is a separation between aesthetic and artistic value. Mona Lisa copies have the same aesthetic but different artistic values. I think folks who care are going to differentiate on that. edit: also, see Duchamp's Fountain

"Adapt or die" ... funny how the general reaction of geeks when Copilot came was quite on the opposite.

Sometimes I wonder where are we headed. My bet is digitally signed pages that chrome refuses to render in case of failed integrity check.

I won't be sleeping well tonight.

Earthlings

I dislike seeing this effect, it reminds me too much of what I see when my glasses are dirty.