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 the battleground.

A company does what it wants for its shareholders, and its customers decide if they’re willing to accept it or not. There’s one company and X million customers. Fight!

There have been lots.

But my most recent was Moshoku Tensei and its current “future timeline (of the MC)” stuff. (I hope it’s just a “vision”).

I’m a middle aged dude and watching what happens to his 2 wives and then his lost love, Eris. I’m not ashamed to admit that I cried (and am now, typing this) and lost actual sleep over it. You’re (probably) laughing, and I’m amazed at how much I didn’t know I cared about the characters.

Storytelling, when done well, is powerful. Seriously. 🤯

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.

The final paragraph:

…some families may have tried to hide the deaths of elderly relatives in order to claim their pensions.

IIRC NHK (via maybe Japanology?) did a piece on this a few years ago, and the number of centenarians whose death had been hidden to keep their benefits flowing was staggering.

Though I think they chose the low hanging fruit: those aged 110 (or 120?) and higher.

“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.

Genuinely surprised by this (but also not really: everything is just a line on a spreadsheet to CEOs), as it seemed to tick all the boxes for monetised serial media: locked in, free stuff, paid stuff, freemium (pay to unlock sooner, timed wait for the next chapter under some circumstances, etc), endless nudges to buy their unlock currency, etc, and the mobile app is surprisingly good.

They’ve built a platform begging to be abused share-maxxed by its owners, but they’re axing it instead of turning the screws. (That’s the surprising bit for me.)

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.

Assuming the author DGAF enough to provide a DRM-free option, anywhere (including Audible) + Libation?

It’s a spectacularly good tool, in my experience.

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.

On the one hand, you’re absolutely right. When smoking was common/accepted, it appeared everywhere in TV and films. Then it became a niche thing, but was always incidental rather than core to the plot. Which I think is the point here.

Perhaps many of us lived in a place where it’s been so long without “smoking is normal” that it’s now jarring, but you don’t have to travel far to see that’s definitely not the case everywhere. Australia’s west versus east coasts, UK versus France or Italy, etc.

Seeing the recent smoking- and drinking-centric anime/manga (for me it’s Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You and Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk) is interesting, and makes me think of how easy it’s been to go from smoking and drinking being ubiquitous to fringe where I live.

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. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Such a wholesome, fun manga. Always Look forward to it.