They aren't blocking anything. They are just asking nicely not to be crawled. Given that AI companies haven't cared a single bit about ripping of other's peoples data I don't see why they would care now.
LPT: switch to the audio captcha. Yes, it takes a bit longer than if you did one grid captcha perfectly, but I never have to sit there and wonder if a square really has a crosswalk or not, and I never wind up doing more than one.
In their attempt to block OpenAI, they block me. Many sites that were accessible just 2 years ago, require login/captchas/rectal exam now just to read the content.
They block plenty and they do it crudely. I get suspicious traffic bans from reddit all the time. Trivial enough to route around by switching user agent however. Which goes to show any crawling bot writer worth their salt already routes around reddit and most other sites bs by now. I’m just the one getting the occasional headache because I use firefox and block ads and site tracking I guess.
Yeah, probably right. If you want a great rabbit hole, look up "Common Crawl" and see how a great academic project was absolutely hijacked for pennies on the dollar to grab training data - the foundation for every LLM out there right now.
It was meant to be an open-source compilation of the crawled internet so that research could be done on web search given how opaque Google's process is. It was NOT meant to be a cheap source of data for for-profit LLM's to train on.
(Shrug) Multiple not-for-profit LLMs have trained on it as well.
If something I worked on turned out to play a significant part in something that turned out to be that big a deal, I'd be OK with it. And nobody's stopping people from doing web-search studies with it, to this day.
In Hebrew there is a saying that goes roughly like "He who steals from a thief is exempt". This is commonly interpreted as you're not liable but goes to a Mishna (circa 100AD) that says you're exempt from the normal fines that apply to stolen property.
Not taking a side in this debate, but what is ownership? As far as I can tell it is an invented concept and has no objective truth, only a "truth that we all agree on".
Would you philosophize about ownership if someone stole your laptop or phone?
Side tangent: there is an interesting Vox story about a Greenland meteorite. It illustrates the real human cost of these expeditions that filled museums. Therefore I find it hard to disentangle “ownership” from “violence”. In this story, the change of ownership is a violent and traumatic event.
If someone held a gun to your head and stole your laptop or phone, yes, I'm sure the OP won't try to claim they own the laptop anymore and go to the owners house asking for it back.
Stealing through force is very different to stealing through deception alone. History is made by the first, and ruined by the last.
I like the word "possession" for this. Either actual possession, when you physically control and can use something, and constructive possesion, where you might not have physical contact with something but still control it.
Ownership is when you convince the right people that you should possess something.
What are these mental gymnastics, and why are you bothering with them?
If you're being sarcastic, it's not coming through over the internet. It sounds like either a variant of "might makes right", or irrelevant linguistic pedantry.
Mental gymnastics? You mean the mental exercises I use to remain cognitively neutral and not succumb to emotion?
Dunno. Probably just think with my brain and not my heart in most situations I can? This is a fairly simple situation where logic wins over extreme emotions.
No sarcasm here. Just the truth my friend. If it's pedantic to be right rather than be wrong and emotional then sure, I am being pedantic.
Others have commented on other parts of the letter but I find it very amusing he is basically stuck in a 2006 view of the tech world. Slashdot and HDD seek times immediately jumped out as things are as dead as they can be.
I wonder if he even knows about smartphones.
Update: As of right now Slashdot.Org hasn't posted this
Animal Crossing: New Horizons was an unfortunate exception to this rule. Seeing them drip-feed features already present in the previous games doesn't bode well for the future of the franchise.
I was researching a brother laser recently and there were a shitload reports of the printer crapping out with non original toner after a power outtage. Also if you were buying non original toner you had to transfer your drm chip to the new toner.
Word for word, this reads like HP. It perfectly describes the Laserjet M402, for example. This stuff is my day job and what you describe isn't Brother-like in the least.
I buy new Brothers for clients every month or so and have yet to see this. Nor have I seen any Brother DRM anything at any of my service sites, ever. If it's out there, it's hidden well.
There was an article here recently saying that the recent extreme heat was caused by an under water volcano shooting vasts amounts of water vapor to the stratosphere and that the warming caused by that event will subdue in 5-10 years.
I’m not being snarky here so bear with me: how does this hypothesis account for the high temps of 2023 when it happened in January 2022? Maybe the article mentioned it but honestly I’ve been drinking.
Good question? Maybe takes that long for the oceans to warm from lack of cloud ?
Personally I thought it read more like an opinion piece ? Interesting ideas there but seems unverified ?
The authors of the paper suggest a +0.15 Wm−2 radiative forcing and give the radiative forcing increase due to CO2 form 1996 to 2005 as +0.26 Wm−2.
This seems to provide an explanation of a huge jump in temperatures non expected by current CO2-only models.
Why this effect would not have been seen in the summer of 2022 I don't know, nor seems the authors of the paper or the liked article address it.
Also the author says this effect may dissipate in 5-10 years at which point the expected warming from CO2 would "match" the current temperatures anyway so there's no real 'cooling' to be expected.
> He called his treatment by the authorities "disgusting" as the administrators were aware that he actually made a loss, but nonetheless they claimed almost all of his savings. "Nobody is responsible for such craziness."
Welcome to the modern Western society, in which employees have been reduced to litigation-avoidance automatons. No wonder so many people hate their jobs, stripped of any power to help or even just follow common sense.
While what you are saying makes sense the reverse is also true: In the long run would I be happy that I stayed at work that one extra day instead of playing Cyberpunk 2077? Years from now would I conclude that extra day at work instead of having fun was worth it?
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