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On the flip side, nobody can be expected to keep their website up for 4000 years. Hosting costs money and time, and at some point, the thing you’re hosting will fall out of relevance enough to no longer be worth the cost.

This is why archiving is important. Hopefully most of the content that was lost was archived at some point. Getting a good chunk of that content onto long term storage would do future generations a favor (even if it’s just a bunch of tape storage locked away in a warehouse or something).

The sooner, the better. It’s so painful when I use Google these days. Why is it that smaller people can do seemingly obvious features like custom user-controlled site rankings, but the big players are completely incapable of that?

If the ICC has no jurisdiction, why are they all worried about the investigation? Let them do their thing, then just nod and say “OK” afterwards.

Also, I love how the US refuses to allow itself or certain close allies to be held responsible for war crimes. At least we can criticize our own government though, could be a lot worse I suppose. Still, maybe don’t do those? That’d be great.

“Thieves break into a car in SF” is somehow less surprising than “the grass is green in SF”.

Steve Harvey at home.

You’re not wrong. All religious extremists are, in fact, air breathers. They’re also generally water drinkers.

As someone who doesn’t drink, this has reinforced my preference to wait until things improve (hopefully they will eventually…) before considering a trip there.

This seems super useful! Personally speaking, I’d also love to see more effort done in general to simplify consuming and producing the JSON-LD (and ActivityStreams vocab) used by these federated services as well, as it’s been something I’ve been trying to tackle myself for a while now (turns out it’s really hard to do in a statically typed, non-dynamic language, from my experience).

It might help if you explain what yours is. Perhaps you’d like to elaborate on why saying most cities aren’t SF is relevant in any way to a discussion about an article about the Bay Area?

I’m confused by this comment. The entire Bay Area is closed to SF. No single city there is not close to it, and people commute from the entire Bay Area to SF. Not everyone commutes there of course, but traffic patterns primarily cause traffic towards that city in the morning and away in the afternoon.

Each other city in the Bay Area also have their own jobs and individual traffic patterns of course, but housing prices are expensive in the entire Bay Area, often increasing as you get closer to SF but also to other city centers. The cost of living in the entire Bay Area is prohibitively expensive to most people, with people often needing to compromise between proximity to work, the size/quality of their home/neighborhood, having roommates to help pay (I have friends who have roomed in groups of 4 to cover rent), etc. SF isn’t the only expensive city in that area.

See, it’s democratic as long as people vote for their candidate of choice. Only one candidate? Well, you voted for them at least.

Also, I’m curious why this hasn’t been an issue in the past. Is it Ohio changing the deadline, or the DNC being moved later in the year?

Those charts seem to be from SoCal. This might be a better reference for Bay Area: https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/current-air-quality/air-monitoring-data/#/

Worth adding that Bay Area has manufacturing and refining. Not sure how much that affects air quality relative to cars.

Both would be good, one does not need to exclude the other. Neither is going to be enough on its own though. More EV availability would overall reduce carbon footprint, but more can be reduced by increasing biking availability and encouraging it more where possible.

I can say from experience though that the $40+/hr parking in some areas of SF make me never want to drive there again though. BART does help though, since you can get around SF pretty well on public transit alone. Other cities in the area also benefit from BART, but not as much, and could generally have better public transportation (busses and such).

Maybe the difference can affect some people, but housing/rent prices in and around SF are astronomical, and I know of several people who can only afford where they live because of their commute. They’d love to bike to work, trust me.

Better bike infrastructure by itself won’t solve the problem. It wouldn’t hurt, but the core of the issue is the cost of living around where people work pushing them to live far away from their workplace. And no, the people I know can’t just look for closer jobs. I’ve asked. The jobs don’t pay as well.

Bikes, unfortunately, won’t help many people with their commutes. The drive alone can be over and hour, often several hours. I’m sure some people could bike that, but most people would rather not do that twice a day.

Better public transportation as a whole could be helpful though. BART has been improving over time, but it’s hard to say that it’s enough (or that it ever will be at this rate).

You don’t need a LLM to see if the output was the exact, non-cyphered system prompt (you can do a simple text similarity check). For cyphers, you may be able to use the prompt/history embeddings to see how similar it is to a set of known kinds of attacks, but it probably won’t be even close to perfect.

It had me at the start. About halfway through, I realized it was written by someone who needs to seek mental help.

I hadn’t heard of Gab AI before, and now I know never to use it.

It sounds like a bill hasn’t been proposed yet (if it has, I’d be interested in a link). Let’s assume legislation like this passes though. Could some anonymous account upload copyrighted material some other malicious person created to a website like YouTube and have YT shut down as a result? Could this be automated too, and put such a massive burden on the website that it can no longer operate? Is this what is being proposed? If so, half of me wants to see the storm that ensues and the subsequent investment by all major tech companies in increasing internet anonymity, especially around hosting (but it’d probably be better to avoid needing to change the entire internet in the first place).

From the quotes in the article, I have to agree with drawing that line. On the one hand, making a non-profit mod using AI-generated voices has no opportunity cost to the actors since they wouldn’t have been hired for that anyway. On the other hand, and this is why I am leaning against training AI voices off people at all without permission, it can cause actual harm to the actor to hear themselves saying things they would otherwise be offended by and wouldn’t ever say in reality. In other words, the AI voices can directly harm people (and already have, according to the article at least).

You can blame both corporations

I don’t remember saying otherwise. I just found it odd that everyone was talking about Discord (at the time of posting), and there was very little discussion around Nintendo’s involvement in encouraging (and participating in) such toxic behavior.

without allowing any sort of measure.

This is what I find unacceptable in Discord’s case. Options should have been given to the devs/server admins.

Is the expectation that Discord will risk spending potentially millions in court with Nintendo to protect a single community? From their perspective, it’s easy to see why they’d just bend over.

Discord’s response was extreme, and that is inexcusable. I’m not trying to defend them here. The core problem here though is Nintendo harassing these developers to try to stop these projects. They could have easily been kicked out by any other platform, or sent a C&D if they tried to self-host one.