Brewchin

FTA: After being told no, Anthropic are suggesting, with a straight face, use of robots.txt to let them know what they can and cannot slurp for free. The same file that has existed for many years and which, famously, has been ignored by their crawlers from the very beginning.

“Okay, so your front door is locked. But have you considered leaving a key under the mat? Just in case…” 🙄

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This is profoundly… meaningless?

“Data centres bad”… does it factor in anything beyond popular perception? Sounds like it’s just “tell me your ‘feelings’ about…” Fuck off.

Yeah, it’s a URL. If you can’t be bothered to put it into context for your audience, why should anyone bother to click it?

Can’t speak for the person you’re replying to, but I always check the F-Droid repository first, too… but not using the F-Droid app because it’s been a sub-par choice for years.

Droid-ify is what I use, but there are others. Many include/allow other FOSS repos and have additional useful features.

“Does this appliance have networking, require an app, or have a firmware update feature?” should not be a question required before the purchase of virtually anything, let alone something for the kitchen.

Unless you’re an influencer or deranged, in which case: carry on. I’m not going to kink shame you.

Plenty of countries out there. Surprised he’s not tried that yet. After all, many countries have their own names that English speaking world don’t use.

Though it’s probably on the list he pulls out whenever he needs the media and internet distracted for a media cycle. Works every time.

To save a click, the first paragraph gives the name and the reason:

The space publication Space Daily, which has been operating for over three decades, has become an unrecognizable shell of its former self after a company called Brown Brothers Media bought it and turned it into a content mill that pumps out misleading and badly sourced AI slop.

To be fair, when I was in primary school, we were assured that the “digital revolution” (or whatever hype phrase was popular) would halve working hours, etc. What it didn’t consider is that bosses would simply demand more productivity.

I mean at all. It didn’t cross their minds that we’d be expected to be twice as productive now that everything was twice as quick. (And so on). 🤯

As history has shown, repeatedly, the only time a worker wins is when they unionise, protest and fight for improvements. You get nothing for free in the mediaeval, feudal system of the workplace.

To your parenthetical: not really. It was stuff like Gopher, Veronica and Archie.

Webrings were a thing that evolved alongside things like Altavista, before Google became dominant. They’re still a great option, given the current circumstances and low barrier to entry, though.

Every “CEO said a thing” is marketing and (almost always; I’m sure there’s one exception… somewhere?) demonstrable bullshit. I wish everyone understood this.

You mean everyone, not just minors.

It’s what this madness requires: everyone is a child until they can prove otherwise. To an age verification company that’s existed for 2 weeks and definitely isn’t lying or incompetent…

And of course they do. Can’t risk a CEO crying wolf and it being real for once. Think of “the economy”.

I hate this timeline. 😒

I’ll never understand why people accept SMS 2FA as any kind of security. Might as well put it as an ad in a newspaper. 🤦🏻‍♂️

This was obvious to anyone who’s used it for any length of time. I’m just surprised the monetisation enshittification didn’t win the race.

The only thing I’ve used Portainer for in the last few years is to easily tidy up my old images.

Sure, it’s trivial on CLI, but why not. 😄 In short: nothing of value lost.

Unrealistic, because the shitwit has the phone to his ear. Almost never happens in real life.

They always have it on speakerphone and shout at it, and the whole block/room/bus/train gets to hear what’s shouted back. 😒

Can’t remember the last time I bought a pre-built computer (well over 30 years ago) where the Windows tax would apply.

TBH, even my laptops - where it might apply by default - have been work laptops that they’ve let me keep after I left. But for desktops: are there many typical users here who buy pre-built machines where this happens?

This. Everything is this.

Nothing. OP is imagining an idiot for imaginary internet points.

OK cool, thanks. What I saw in demos a week or so ago seemed “fuck those screen reader folks”. Would be good if it’s not as bad as that.

[citation needed]

Gonna need more than a confident declaration to convince people potentially impacted by this. Provide it… or shut up.