“… used to transfer resource heavy HTML pages.” Uhm, Gemini does not use HTML – that’s the freaking point.

I can’t be arsed to try to edit the Wiki page but this is just entirely wrong.

Seriously? This is pure evil. 99% chance their models have ingested the code they plan to replace. remember LLMs don’t create, they regurgitate an amalgam of what they have ingested.

This slop should not be allowed to be copyrighted or sold.

Edit: This is satire AFAIK but there’s probably some cadre of techbros that are going to actually do this. and get rich off of it. SMH.

Me too!

And soon you’ll have to agree to not criticize members of the Saudi Royal Family or disparage their name…

This really is a new front in the war on general-purpose computing for regular people. The EU or some entity big enough that’s outside of the US needs to fund new memory fabs ASAP and get this industry out of the hands of the present cartel.

Well that could be considered the point where we lost our innocence, yeah. :(

More the latter :) … if only we could all just get along and be nicer to each other. Sigh.

Oh, definitely rose-coloured, but I am thinking even before those days… like when access to Usenet was restricted to colleges and universities, dial-up BBSes … and I didn’t use Windows or MacOS at all back then. ActiveX and js didn’t even exist back then. Boot-sector floppy viruses did, but those were easy to guard against.

I’ve heard Chromebooks are such a pain to put alternative OSes on due to their BIOs. Are there efforts to just reflash these things so they aren’t beholden to Alphabet? That would be the most libre-resistance move: “Un-Chrome” the device permanently.

Hmm as I was typing this I did a quick search: https://libreboot.org/docs/install/chromebooks.html

…but that’s only for ARM Chromebooks.

Oh, I’m really just pining for the days before the ‘Eternal September’, I suppose. We can’t go back, I know. :/

So what’s the floor here realistically, are they going to lower it to 30 days, then 14, then 2, then 1? Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

It is ignoring the elephant in the room – the central root CA system. What if that is ever compromised?

Certificate pinning was a good idea IMO, giving end-users control over trust without these top-down mandated cert update schedules. Don’t get me wrong, LetsEncrypt has done and is doing a great service within the current infrastructure we have, but …

I kind of wish we could just partition the entire internet into the current “commercial public internet” and a new (old, redux) “hobbyist private internet” where we didn’t have to assume every single god-damned connection was a hostile entity. I miss the comraderie, the shared vibe, the trust. Yeah I’m old.

I have a script that watches apache or caddy logs for poison link hits and a set of bot user agents, adding IPs to an ipset blacklist, blocking with iptables. I should polish it up for others to try. My list of unique IPs is well over 10k in just a few days.

git repos seem to be real bait for these damn AI scrapers.

This just shows that Valve/Steam is way too powerful in games distribution. Another example of over-centralization in our modern world. My initial thought of course was “just move to itch.io or something”, but they claim no one will give them investment funds to develop games unless they can be on Steam, which is just insane.

Yup I use it, when I must use Windows. So much better than the default, I sometimes forget I am using Win11.

As long as you verify the model of OnePlus you use works in your country, you could give them a try with lineage OS. My OnePlus 5T ran it great. However, in Canada Rogers just recently nerfed their Network so that my 5T no longer worked – 4g, LTE or 5g required now, and voLTE on Rogers apparently wasn’t compatible with OnePlus models. I’m trying to work up the courage to install graphene OS on my new pixel 9.

Ah, thanks for the correction!

If I want my fridge enshittified I’ll bag up my own poop and put it in the freezer, thankyouverymuch

Didn’t George Carlin have a bit about how all marketing people should just kill themselves?

Search for v2.79 (if memory serves) on oldversion.com for the last ‘good’ version of classic winamp, and the streamripper plugin is still floating around somewhere on the 'net…

An absolutely ancient tool I used to use was WinAmp (v2.x) with the Streamripper plugin. It would save out each song from a shoutcast or icecast station to a file with the artist/album/title/track like a champ. Maybe not quite what you want (won’t do youtube) but there are a ton of great indie stations on the vorbis icecast network…

Use a straw if available…