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I don't think youtube's @ThingfishyGaming thought this thumbnail quite through.. #kerning

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Oh fuck off Guardian.

"We never would have bought".

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

You'd have bought 2 houses if you could, even knowing interest rates are going up.

Rich people... have property, still complaining

#auspol

s/be/beat/

Shaun (https://www.youtube.com/@Shaun_vids) is doing a fundraiser (https://tiltify.com/@shaun-vids/shauns-irrf-fundraiser) to benefit the Women's Foundation of Minnesota and he's running a twitch stream https://www.twitch.tv/shaun_vids in which he's trying to be Elden Ring with Scarlet Rot. If that sounds like a good cause please go over and donate and spread the news #shaun_vids #IRRF #irrf-fundraiser

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@MostlyHarmless

@Gammitin samples and legal stuff is my guess.

@emmalbriant has anyone told Nate he's a bot?

Why msnbc, why are you putting that awful music back on #uspol #USelections2024

I was expecting the republicans to be the dog that caught the car, this is more like the car throwing itself under the dog. #uspol #uselections

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After 14yrs, the RickRoll is no more. It's finally been taken down.

Another internet meme bites the dust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ just shows an error msg now. 😞

ahahahaah why did i do that

@FediThing @caseynewton

Google has lost the ability to look further than the quarterly share dividend, the fate of many tech companies. Now they're living off the efforts of other tech companies, stealing their ideas, the end-game.

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@caseynewton

But, it's not just about humans doing the Googling.

The information people want has to come from humans in the real world. If you ask Google for a cake recipe, someone somewhere has to have baked cakes and written it down, and it won't be anyone at Google.

This is Google stealing the info, and not giving anything back at all. AI/LLM search isn't going to be sustainable if actual knowledge is just co-opted by Google with zero credit to its creators. Why would anyone bother publishing cake recipes if it just gets slurped and stolen instantly?

Where is Google going to get data to steal if they've destroyed the web?

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@grissallia @caseynewton

Everybody on the outside is screaming about it. Everybody who's salary depends on pushing out AI is deflecting.

Yes, people will 100% trust what the computer tells them. Right up until it causes enough trouble that society just gives up on ever using Google for anything. But it'll have to be that bad for people to come to their skeptical senses. Google is working on either killing itself, or civilization. That's both options.

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Bad and freeloader behaviour
AnthropicAI. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ceco4f/claude_ai_name_and_shame/ #linux #linuxmint #opensource Please boost to shame them.

From the r/linux by user named MintAlone

Title: Claude AI - name and shame

I'm a mint user, regular contributor to the LM forum. Our forum went down today. Message from one of the mods when it was restored:

Claude AI is a new AI chatbot by the company Anthropic. They're scraping websites to train their chatbot for free. They're doing it in a way that causes so much extra load on websites, it's effectively a DDos attack. Sometime yesterday their "ClaudeBot" started scraping the forums and this caused very poor performance of the forums for several hours and ultimately led to an outage.

ClaudeBot is now blocked at the firewall and forums performance should be back to normal.

Went looking for Anthropic, found no way of contacting them to complain (you end up going in circles). So posted here, not that I expect it will make any difference to their behaviour.

Update:

To put it into perspective: over the same time period ClaudeBot caused 20 times as much traffic as the 2nd worst bot and 40 times as much as the 3rd worst bot. The traffic from all other bots combined was a blip in comparison. We've blocked several other bots in the past for doing the same as ClaudeBot but as you can see most bots aren't an issue.

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in case you too want to cross-stitch it

curl is just the hobby of some guy that has no business providing a service to a billion people

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I love how many people talk about 4 GB RAM laptops as old. Of course, they are...but I have a really old Toshiba laptop with 80 GB HDD and 1 GB of RAM...now that's what I call old in my book.
Still, running #antix on it, and I will try to install #BatoceraLinux to make it a #retrogaming laptop. The USB slot evidently doesn't work anymore, so..old school DVD burning we go!

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