A study years ago found that the ideal time for copyrights to recover the investment and all that was something like 14 years or something like that (don’t recall exactly), can you imagine if anything older than like 20 years automatically fell into the Public Domain? The kind of wild crazy awesome shit that would be out there?

I might be a nerd…

Probably don’t count on it going away until the current LLM bubble pops

Then the corpo lawyer teams say “This is a major legal liability” and say no

Here’s a mirror of the old, old OKCupid blogpost against paid dating apps, some dynamic bits didn’t get properly archived but the info is still there, giving a very strong argument that paid dating apps are by definition bad to find a partner. Then they got bought and the blogpost was deleted literally the next day.

And this is long, LONG before everything started enshittifying, and dating apps went all in on this. By now the odds are very much against you if you wanna find someone on those apps.

Feels extremely weird to be on the same side as whatsapp on a privacy issue…

hunter2?

The damage is permanently done, people have gone to alternatives and won’t come back

And the Internet Archive too

It 100% will, it has already started

This is specially annoying when troubleshooting, “please give me the error message you’re getting” and they reply with a screenshot of it i cannot copy/paste

Nah, there’s always going to be bots in any public network, it’s normal, should be fought and all but there’s always adversarial individuals, we definitely should find who’s this Nicole person and get them to stop this crap, but you’d be surprised how NORMAL it is to have anything on the public internet under constant, 24/7 attack

Wrong use case, the expected one is friends and family watching stuff on your Jellyfin server from different homes, potentially through mobile, all with dynamic IPs

Heh, saw it already in some places 🏴‍☠️ so Streisand effect is in full force, good!

Which alternatives would you suggest?

Tom Scott’s very comprehensive video on the subject

The smart thing to do following this announcement would be to replicate it locally and use that from then on, they gave all the info on how to do it after all

I think many of them already do, i know Iocaine uses Markov chain text generation to spit out nonsense to poison the LLMs, do check it, at the bottom of the project page it links to others

By now i’ve seen like 6 or 7 projects on either trapping or outright poison content for LLM bots, and yesterday i saw this one which outright modifies the HTML of your page making it harder to steal and instead replaces it with a random prompt, someone asks it to summarize a blogpost and instead the thing starts talking about poodles or something, while normal browser users notice nothing

Missing: instant preview. If the implementation is just syncing a file, then that works, otherwise it’s the same thing