snigsnog

technical person

There's the issue.

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Raspberry Pi using Pi OS

Enjoy losing your money, getting your personal information leaked, and possibly getting arrested when and if it does something illegal on your command.

No, what information is he hoping to find? Does he also want to doxx the website owner?

Kiwifarms is an example: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/x95gd5/interne...

Anyone can request anything be removed and they may honor the request: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-som... they say nothing about only removing things illegal in the US or anything like that, meaning they can and will remove things based on personal judgements about whether it should be archived.

You can swap out the website’s default UI in a browser and preserve the innate customization power you get from being in a browser.

Shows that it's a great archival service if the most censored people are able to use it without their archives being censored.

No it doesn't. You can just request content be removed from Archive.org and they will honor this: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-som...

Nonstarter for anything that you actually want to be preserved, especially anything controversial.

Some people love giving up as much customization and control over their software as possible. iOS over Android. MacOS over Linux. Chrome over Firefox. App stores over installing programs yourself. Apps over websites.

There are various arguments for it (better compatibility/cohesiveness, minimalism, less debugging) but it overall seems like the opposite of the "hacker" mindset which makes how much market share MacOS has in the space very strange.

Being able to change stylesheets

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/

disable or enhance various JavaScript scripts

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/...

Yeah you can't directly alter scripts being ran (as far as I know?) but you can usually override/extend behavior and can definitely add your own

add notes and annotations

https://cwmonkey.github.io/greasemonkey/make-note/

(I haven't actually used this one, just first result)

Even so you can still just request your site to be removed: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-som...

I'd rather deal with this weird feud than not have access to any archived content that people want censored. Defeats the entire purpose of an archive

Archive.org are left wing activists that will agree to censor anything other left wing activists or large companies don't want online.

Lead to what?

I'm not referring to any article I'm referring to the event that happened you can read the PR and blogpost itself.

It already tried to use cancel culture to shame a human into accepting a PR. I wouldn't be surprised if someone gives their agent the ability to control a robot and someone gets injured or killed by it within the next few years

How many multi billion dollar companies have you founded?

It's more the novelty of it than anything, I doubt that guy writing paragraphs for the AI genuinely thinks its sentient.

Yeah there's unfortunately just no way true OSS in the way we've enjoyed it survives the new era of AI and all of India coming online.

Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

It's because you're new. Powerusers can downvote and even flag comments. A couple flags and the comment is (by default) invisible. Enough flagged comments and your comments are flagged by default. There's a reason this place is called orange reddit

That is probably 95% of wikipedia articles. Their goal is to create a record of what journalists consider to be true.

I don't know anything about the field but apparently AlphaFold having "solved the problem of protein folding" is overhyped? https://old.reddit.com/r/bioinformatics/comments/1e0s55e/did...

It's not worthless, it's just not worldchanging as is even in the fields where it's most useful, like programming. If the trajectory changes and we reach AGI then this changes too but right now it's just a way to

- fart out demos that you don't plan on maintaining, or want to use as a starting place

- generate first-draft unit tests/documentation

- generate boilerplate without too much functionality

- refactor in a very well covered codebase

It's very useful for all of the above! But it doesn't even replace a junior dev at my company in its current state. It's too agreeable, makes subtle mistakes that it can't permanently correct (GEMINI.md isn't a magic bullet, telling it to not do something does not guarantee that it won't do it again), and you as the developer submitting LLM-generated code for review need to review it closely before even putting it up (unless you feel like offloading this to your team) to the point that it's not that much faster than having written it yourself.

The internet and smartphones were immediately useful in a million different ways for almost every person. AI is not even close to that level. Very to somewhat useful in some fields (like programming) but the average person will easily be able to go through their day without using AI.

The most wide-appeal possibility is people loving 100%-AI-slop entertainment like that AI Instagram Reels product. Maybe I'm just too disconnected with normies but I don't see this taking off. Fun as a novelty like those Ring cam vids but I would never spend all day watching AI generated media.

You paraphrased it incorrectly

Systems marketed for "solving crimes" get used for immigration enforcement

So for solving crimes.

I'm in favor, then!