(Sets bottle of alcohol on counter)

Cashier: Can I see some ID, please?

Me: I know what this is.

Beep boop: 15 seconds per pound. Trust me, bro, I’m a bot.

“I’m a bot. Trust me, bro!”

No thanks. I’d rather scour 50+ articles to find what I need than have to trust some chatbot that doesn’t cite its work. Beyond that, it’s “stealing” content from the sites it crawls to build that knowledge while depriving those sites of traffic.

Everyone praising these is so focused on getting an immediate answer they completely neglect anything they may learn during the search. Hell, I’ve researched things before and, prior to finding what I was looking for, found enough material to realize my approach was flawed. When I started over, the information I got from the “non answer” results were crucial to fixing the flaws in my original approach.

That’s what I was thinking, but wasn’t sure enough to say beyond “give it a shot and see”.

There might be some savings to be had by enabling compression, though it would depend on what format the images are in to start with. If they’re already in a compressed format, it would probably just be a waste of CPU to try compressing them further at the filesystem level.

Not sure if a de-duplicating filesystem would help with that or not. Depends, I guess, on if there are similarities between the similar images at the block level.

Maybe try setting up a small, test ZFS pool, enabling de-dup, adding some similar images, and then checking the de-dupe rate? If that works, then you can plan a more permanent ZFS (or other filesystem that supports de-duplication) setup to hold your images.

The whitespace and the popovers. I get really annoyed reading a page and accidentally bump the cursor over something and a popup preview covers up what I’m reading. Or I’ll be scrolling with the keyboard and a linked word scrolls under the cursor and the popover appears. Then it triggers popovers on every word as I move the mouse out of the way.

Feels like navigating a mine field. That’s the part I’m most split on: sometimes I find that useful, most times it’s a nuisance.

They did recently, or at least within the last year or so. Naturally, I hate it. lol

We’re fucked.

Thanks! Wish I had more time to work on it lately, but life has been getting in the way.

Tesseract was originally kind-of a cross between Photon and Alexandrite, though it’s evolved separately from both since then. May still be close enough for your taste?

Github

Then they can either pay for the copyrighted data they want to train on or lobby for copyright to be reigned in for everyone. Right now, they’re acting like entitled twats with a shit business model demanding they get a free pass while the rest of us would be bankrupted for downloading a Metallica MP3.

Google (and search engines in general) is at least providing a service by indexing and making discoverable the websites they crawl. OpenAI is is just hoovering up the data and providing nothing in return. Socializing the cost, privatizing the profits.

Yeah! I can’t make money running my restaurant if I have to pay for the ingredients, so I should be allowed to steal them. How else can I make money??

Alternatively:

OpenAI is no different from pirate streaming sites in this regard (loosely: streaming sites are way more useful to humanity). If OpenAI gets a pass, so should every site that’s been shut down for piracy.

My takeaway from this is:

1. Get a bunch of AI-generated slop and put it in a bunch of individual .htm files on my webserver.
2. When my bot user agent filter is invoked in Nginx, instead of returning 444 and closing the connection, return a random .htm of AI-generated slop (instead of serving the real content)
3. Laugh as the LLMs eat their own shit
4. ???
5. Profit

Yay. Just what the Fediverse needs: more bot spam.

I almost went with OPNsense (having previously used pfSense), but everything else was already on OpenWRT so I decided to keep things consistent. OPNsense is a solid choice, too.

The barracuda I have is basically an x64 board in a 1U half-depth case with two extra network adapters (3 total including the onboard one). I have two of them: one’s running OpenWRT (my router) and the other vanilla Debian.

So if my router one dies, I can just either pull the drive from it or restore a config backup to another suitable PC that has two NICs (or promote the second unit I have).

The config in openwrt is abstracted. So if the hardware and NICs are totally different, you might need to reconfigure the device names in the config so they’re referencing the right NICs, but everything else should “just work” (e.g. WAN and LAN are just arbitrary labels).

If going the route of a backup solution, is it feasible to install OpenWRT on all of my devices, with the expectation that I can do some sort of automated backups of all settings and configurations, and restore in case of a router dying?

That’s what I do. Every device runs OpenWRT except my ONT. Backing up is just a cron script that calls each one and pulls the config.

For my router, I ended up buying an old Barracuda LoadBalancer 340 and installing OpenWRT (it’s an x86 device so it was super easy). It’s a little over-powered for a router, but the price was right. It’s got more than enough spare resources to run some extra stuff, including Docker, so I’m probably going to throw my PiHole container on there since I haven’t been impressed with AdGuard Home (which is available in the repos).

And if you go for an old Barracuda unit like I did, the default BIOS password is bcndk1

At they very least, the TOSs need to be limited in scope to just the product or service specifically used by the customer. Having them be written or interpreted so broadly as to encompass anything the company does, in any business unit, should be unenforceable (and ideally illegal).

And also granular: If I don’t agree to Google or Microsoft phoning my activity back to the mothership, then those “feature” should be disabled without preventing me from using the device I paid for.

The notion that terns agreed to by a consumer when creating a Disney+ free trial account would forever bar that consumer’s right to a jury trial in any dispute with any Disney affiliate or subsidiary, is so outrageously unreasonable and unfair as to shock the judicial conscience, and this court should not enforce such an agreement.

Not that I’m condoning piracy, but pirates don’t have to deal with this crap. Just sayin’. This situation is basically the plot of the Cent-iPad episode of South Park, and hopefully the courts strike this “defense” down with prejudice.

And since the FTC found its teeth, maybe it should look at the behemoth that Disney has been allowed to become; they own way too many media properties.