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[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If you're thinking of American right-wingers and fascists who are currently celebrating Trump's victory, I must say their view of the world is so dark, negative and pessimistic, that nobody could really describe it as utopia-like. This is a brief respite for them, nothing more.

If you're thinking more abstractly, or of some very specific incredibly lucky people, then I guess it could be so.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Yeah, totally makes sense, "they" attacked IA one month in advance before the elections, knowing that IA would spend around a month rewriting and improving their site code until the Save Page option would be enabled again (unless IA themselves are a part of the plot???), so that news articles could be "edited on the fly" (with what result?) until the election day, while other similar web archiving services such as archive.is would keep working just fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Thanks. It's a part of history I know very little about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I meant the "for over a hundred years" part specifically, I bolded it but it's not as noticeable as it should be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (5 children)

the US a terrorist nation for couping democratically elected leader in favour of dictators for over a hundred years

Is this really true?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And that's more or less what I was aiming for, so we're back at square one. What you wrote is in line with my first comment:

it is a weak compliment for AI, and more of a criticism of the current web search engines

The point is that there isn't something that makes AI inherently superior to ordinary search engines. (Personally I haven't found AI to be superior at all, but that's a different topic.) The difference in quality is mainly a consequence of some corporate fuckery to wring out more money from the investors and/or advertisers and/or users at the given moment. AI is good (according to you) just because search engines suck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

AI LLMs simply are better at surfacing it

Ok, but how exactly? Is there some magical emergent property of LLMs that guides them to filter out the garbage from the quality content?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If you don't feel like discussing this and won't do anything more than deliberately miss the point, you don't have to reply to me at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

they’re a great use in surfacing information that is discussed and available, but might be buried with no SEO behind it to surface it

This is what I've seen many people claim. But it is a weak compliment for AI, and more of a criticism of the current web search engines. Why is that information unavailable to search engines, but is available to LLMs? If someone has put in the work to find and feed the quality content to LLMs, why couldn't that same effort have been invested in Google Search?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Admittedly that sort of censoring has been used online since forever. Stuff like "pr0n", etc.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I won't deny that there are elements of a mildly conservative worldview in the post (mentioning the necessity of a "stable male figure"), but you go way overboard with your interpretation. If the post really was in line with such ideas, I wouldn't have posted it here.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's from https://boards.4chan.org/r9k/thread/79241078, it does seem real, apparently he's been sporadically posting about his job for some time.

 
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rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 
 

Quite frequently I come across scanned books that are viewable for free online. For example, the publisher put them there (such as preview chapters), a library (old books from their collection that are in public domain), etc. Since I like hoarding data, and the online viewers that are used to present the book to me might not be very practical, I frequently try to download the books one way or another. This requires toying with the "inspect element" tool and various other methods of getting the images/PDF. Now, all that I access is what is, well, accessible; I don't hack into the servers or something. But - the stuff is meant to be hidden from the normal user. Does that act of hiding the material, no matter how primitive and easily circumvented, mean that I'm not allowed to access it at all?

I suppose ripping a public domain book is no big deal, but would books under copyright fare differently?

Mainly I'm asking out of curiosity, I don't expect the police to come visit me for ripping a 16th century dictionary.

Note: I live in EU, but I'd be curious to hear how this is treated elsewhere too.

Edit: I also remembered a funny trick I noticed on one site - it allows viewing PDFs on their website, but not downloading, unless you pay for the PDF. But when you load the page, even without paying, the PDF is already downloaded onto your computer and can be found in the browser cache. Is it legal to simply save the file that is already on your computer?

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(I don't know where else to post, maybe someone here can help, and Neocities is open source...)

I want to create a site on Neocities. I fill out the signup form, solve the captcha, but when I click the "Create My Site" button, nothing happens. I click it again, and after a delay it starts loading something, but then just says "The captcha was not valid, please try again."

This happens regardless of the browser, machine or IP address I'm using.

Does anyone have any idea what might be the problem, and hopefully how to solve it? Is it just me or does anyone else have the same issue? I've sent an email to the admins two days ago, but still have gotten no reply, and I can find no info on this elsewhere online.

EDIT (20-8-2024): It's working now, probably they fixed it, woo! :D

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I'm still in my 20s, but as of a few years ago I started forgetting what's my exact age. I always have to stop and recalculate it each time someone asks me. I get asked fairly infrequently, but when I do it's a bit weird/embarrassing that I have to say "wait, let me calculate". (I know when I was born, of course.)

It seems as if there's no good reason I'd remember it, since it changes all the time and it is rarely mentioned in practice. But others, including people much older than myself, know their own age immediately.

I'm also terrible at remembering people's names, I don't know if that could be related?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-01-10/Traffic_report

Here's the top 50 list, with the number of views in brackets. The actual article also includes commentary and dates with peak amount of views.

  1. ChatGPT [52,565,681]
  2. Deaths in 2023 [48,603,284]
  3. 2023 Cricket World Cup [38,723,498]
  4. Oppenheimer (film) [31,265,503]
  5. J. Robert Oppenheimer [28,681,943]
  6. Cricket World Cup [26,390,217]
  7. Jawan (film) [23,112,884]
  8. Taylor Swift [22,179,656]
  9. The Last of Us (TV series) [21,000,722]
  10. Pathaan (film) [20,614,066]
  11. Premier League [19,968,486]
  12. Barbie (film) [19,930,916]
  13. Cristiano Ronaldo [19,287,757]
  14. The Idol (TV series) [19,186,512]
  15. United States [18,135,421]
  16. Matthew Perry [17,882,508]
  17. Lionel Messi [17,768,818]
  18. Animal (2023 film) [16,988,676]
  19. Elon Musk [16,026,256]
  20. India [15,200,006]
  21. Avatar: The Way of Water [15,062,733]
  22. Lisa Marie Presley [14,812,928]
  23. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 [14,155,874]
  24. Russian invasion of Ukraine [13,998,378]
  25. Leo (2023 Indian film) [13,994,461]
  26. List of highest-grossing Indian films [13,904,959]
  27. 2023 Israel–Hamas war [13,647,220]
  28. Israel [13,344,140]
  29. Andrew Tate [13,604,475]
  30. Elizabeth II [13,021,033]
  31. David Beckham [12,850,994]
  32. Fast X [12,763,269]
  33. Sinéad O'Connor [12,712,846]
  34. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse [12,705,868]
  35. Elvis Presley [12,584,150]
  36. Killers of the Flower Moon (film) [12,525,826]
  37. Twitter [12,220,814]
  38. List of American films of 2023 [12,197,227]
  39. Travis Kelce [12,155,733]
  40. The Super Mario Bros. Movie [12,065,680]
  41. Pedro Pascal [12,022,551]
  42. Charles III [11,978,873]
  43. Donald Trump [11,925,480]
  44. Tina Turner [11,634,915]
  45. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny [11,563,900]
  46. Joe Biden [11,152,150]
  47. John Wick: Chapter 4 [11,133,720]
  48. Gadar 2 [11,129,684]
  49. Everything Everywhere All at Once [11,115,623]
  50. Margot Robbie [11,041,143]
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