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- Comment on i love orchids 1 day ago:
C’mon. Look at her. Who wouldn’t want to be sucked dry by her?
Actually… Do they do that? Or is that just spiders?
Anyway, I’m sure that their lovemaking involves giving head.
- Comment on i love orchids 2 days ago:
I don’t know much about mimicry, but I’m pretty sure the point of praying barbie’s outfit is, that butterflies and bees also love her.
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 2 days ago:
This is closer to the idea: www.w3.org/TR/…/WD-Micropayment-Markup-19990825/
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 2 days ago:
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Clickbait is one of the bigger problems on the net. I don’t want to pay for more of it.
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I am much less opposed to being tracked than some people here. But the complete and unavoidable surveillance implied by such a scheme takes it a bit far.
Actually, given Lemmy’s usual knee-jerk reaction to tracking and commercialization, I can only assume that people aren’t thinking through this proposal.
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- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 3 days ago:
Spilled the secret on the flight to Avignon. Today’s Snowdens have it easier. They spill less unpleasant secrets, too.
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 3 days ago:
Ahh. But have you evolved your tailbone into a pilot light?
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 3 days ago:
“Help him, help him,” Dobbs was sobbing. “Help him, help him.”
“Help who? Help who?” Yossarian called back. “Help who?”
“The bombardier, the bombardier,” Dobbs cried. “He doesn’t answer. Help the bombardier, help the bombardier.”
“I’m the bombardier,” Yossarian cried back at him. “I’m the bombardier. I’m all right. I’m all right.”
“Then help him, help him,” Dobbs wept. “Help him, help him.”
- Comment on crunchi 3 days ago:
Well, is it crunchy? Such a disappointment when they don’t crunch after all.
- Comment on Finally a solution to the Königsberg Bridge problem. 4 days ago:
This must be the true reason the whole city got razed.
Allegedly, the Russians wanted to negotiate about Kaliningrad in 1990 but Germany was more horrified than interested. Straightforward decision at the time. No one wanted a reprieve of the whole Polish Corridor thing, especially without even Germans living there. Rather a mistake in hindsight.
- Comment on Well, I mean they probably... Maybe they... 4 days ago:
Yeah, the problem isn’t getting Americans to use metric. It’s getting them to stop using everything else.
For some reason, English derived cultures have this incredibly conservative streak. Like the language lugs around letters that no one has pronounced in centuries. Maybe it comes from stare decisis. You start doing this differently, and it’s all Mad Max from there.
- Comment on I was wrong about robots.txt 5 days ago:
But the article later does back it up
The CEO of Cloudflare did not assert that. I was surprised that he would claim such a thing, and that should have made me read more carefully. Elon Musk notwithstanding, neither incompetence nor conspiracy theorizing are common at that level, publicly anyway.
You can believe whatever you like, of course. Freedom of opinion is nothing if not the right to be wrong.
- Comment on I was wrong about robots.txt 5 days ago:
It would be a lot to write, if you had to say what something does not do rather than what it does.
I looked at what the Cloudflare CEO said again. To be fair to him, he is not actually backing you up. He’s saying that Google makes no difference between the AI overview and the other search results. That is true. The AI overview is a search feature. I’m not sure why someone would want their link listed in search but not appear much more prominently in the AI overview.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 6 days ago:
Oh right. It’s Thursday. Hail Thor! Hail the Protector of Mankind!
- Comment on I was wrong about robots.txt 6 days ago:
You look up what Googlebot does. No AI.
You want to know what crawlers do AI? Just search for “AI”, or “training”, or some such, or skim through. It’s not long. Google-Extended collects training data. Note that Google-Extended is explicitly not used to rank pages.
Did that help?
- Comment on I was wrong about robots.txt 6 days ago:
I’m not really sure what you are asking here. Did you notice that you can scroll down and see a list of their crawlers?
- Comment on I was wrong about robots.txt 6 days ago:
that is not how general news media has been talking about robots.txt.
Ahh, yes. I think there is a lesson there.
- Comment on I was wrong about robots.txt 6 days ago:
Ok. That quotes a tweet by Cloudflare’s CEO. IDK what his qualifications are, but his conflict of interest is obvious enough. Real quality journalism there.
Here’s Google technical documentation on its crawlers: developers.google.com/…/google-common-crawlers
- Comment on I was wrong about robots.txt 6 days ago:
That’s very different from what I called false.
What you describe may happen, but probably not as much as you think. Much of that stuff is just not that valuable. Some personal, colloquial writing is necessary, but Google already pays Reddit. Other stuff is better obtained from torrents or shadow libraries like Anna’s Archive.
- Comment on I was wrong about robots.txt 6 days ago:
Googlebot if enabled won’t just list you for search, but will also scrape your contents for Google’s AI.
False.
- Comment on I was wrong about robots.txt 6 days ago:
What did he think a crawler is? Why was he surprised that not allowing companies to use his data lead to them not using his data? Looks like he has another surprise coming when he notices that search engines no longer index his blog.
- Comment on 'The Next Level': Ex-KADOKAWA Chairman Says Generative AI and Short Anime Will Drive Japanese Content Forward - Anime Corner 1 week ago:
He was arrested in September 2022 on allegations of bribing an executive related to the Tokyo Olympics in exchange for KADOKAWA receiving preferential sponsorship treatment.
He was later charged by prosecutors and stepped down as chairman of the company on October 4, 2022. He denies the charge. KADOKAWA’s current CEO, Takeshi Natsuno, confirmed as recently as March 2025 that Tsuguhiko is barred from meeting with him and is not involved in the company (Toyo Keizai). Despite Tsuguhiko’s lack of involvement with KADOKAWA, which is active in conventional and short anime while also “actively investing” in AI for production, his words underscore a growing trend.
From the article.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 1 week ago:
reason based robots
What’s that?
- Comment on Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK 1 week ago:
This is mandated by UK law. If you created a node so that UK users can bypass this, you would be doing something illegal. You’d probably get defederated.
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- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 weeks ago:
A GPU?
- Comment on Happy 30th Anniversary! 2 weeks ago:
Hmm. There’s only 1 thing I know about top gear. That presenter guy, the old one, what’s his name? His father-in-law was awarded a Victoria’s Cross for actions during the Battle of Arnhem; the famous a bridge too far. 7 VCs were awarded in that battle, but he was the only one who made it out alive.
I wonder if that ever became awkward. Like guy comes home and says:
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I did this super dangerous stunt for TV today!
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Oh, you did something dangerous, son? Do tell.
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- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 2 weeks ago:
The most striking image yet to emerge from the fall of Srebrenica comes in a BBC film to be screened next week. It shows the indicted Serb war criminal General Radko Mladic presenting the commander of the UN peacekeeping force at Srebrenica, Colonel Ton Karremans of Holland, with gifts wrapped in Christmas paper. Mladic was evidently in a expansive mood and he had good reason to be: at that very moment his troops were preparing to massacre the 4,000 men and boys who the UN had handed over to him.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 2 weeks ago:
Oh yes. If you’re a Dutch soldier you even get free drinks, and it only costs your honor.
“Toast of shame” - Mladic and Karreman drinking together
Happy 30th anniversary. Cheers to the Dutch Army.
