Yeah, if you don’t mind it possibly taking a week to download something… Really like the idea, but in practice it’s very slow for something like that, unless you got a lot of seeders for something maybe.

Yeah I permanently switched to Linux in 2019 and even since then things have come a loooong way, let alone from the early 2010’s when I began experimenting with Linux. It’s sorta would to look back and see just how far things have come in 5 years.

Good bot!

Actually, I think there is some value there. It makes it so the fans have to step up and say “we want this game to be preserved and open sourced.” Which sorta serves as a bellwether for whether others would be willing to step up and keep it going once it is. If the fans hadn’t stepped up like that, it would have been a bit telling that there may not have been much support for it once it was OSS.

This is why we need 3, 4, or even 5 monitors at a time.

Yeah, Voyager really is the best interface overall. The PWA is so good, that it’s hard to even realize it’s not a native app. By far the smoothest PWA I’ve ever used.

I really wanted Eternity to work out, being that I loved (and still love thanks to Revanced patching) Infinity for Reddit. But it does seem like Eternity was too much to try and convert over.

It’s great seeing HeliBoard come so far, especially after it seemed like OpenBoard was potentially dead. I’m still a (firewalled on CalyxOS) GBoard user, but HeliBoard is the closest I’ve found to a viable replacement for it. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing what future developments it has in store.

I learned something today… and I’m not better off for having learned it. What a dumb ass virtue signal to use on something.

It’s likely something out of their control. I imagine their payment processor either uses it, or requires the site to use it. Mostly to combat automated fraud.

You likely won’t find any site, that has online shopping, that doesn’t use some sort of way to gatekeep against this behavior, unless it’s crypto-based. And even then it likely still has something like that. Even if the site redirects to Paypal, you’re gonna face that.

Your approach simply isn’t realistic to the modern web. You can try uBlock, but blocking those connections likely will make the site ultimately not work for you.

Thing is, this isn’t really how AI training works and it can be easily done on the outputs of other AI. That’s actually what Standford used to train their (comparably) small LLM that was very competent, despite its size. It was trained on the outputs of GPT (iirc) and held it’s own much better than other models in a similar category, which is also what opened up the doors to smaller, more specialized models being useful, rather than giant ones like GPT.

Now, image generation via diffusion might be more troublesome, but that’s fairly easily mitigated through several means, including a human or automated discriminator, which basically becomes a pseudo form of a GAN. There’s also other processes that exist for this that aren’t as affected (from what I know at least), such as GANs. But given most image AI’s are trained on stuff like LAION, AI images being uploaded online will have no effect on that, not for quite a while at least, if ever.