Notices by Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)

@AT1ST @vantiss That was my first thought too. The thing is, on Windows it's normal for a "driver" a vendor ships to actually be a bundled software suite of driver, sprawling extensions/hooks that add menus and alter core Windows functionality, and outright malware. It's incredibly hard for normies to figure out how to get just the real driver, and often the device is missing part of it's advertised functionality without the added junk installed.

@DarcMoughty Beg to differ on "For most of us, it's simple and convenient." That's the narrative of the asshats pushing this stuff.

Rather "for most of us, it's a manageable inconvenience".

Wanting to live in the end times is kind of cowardly since it absolves of you of the burden of building a better future. Some great compelling force will come down from on high and sort it all out.

Since you don't really know what times you face it's more responsible and brave to live as if these are the "Beginning Times" instead. And with great effort you may do a tiny bit of good that lasts a few decades beyond your grave.

@akkana @JohnBarentine 12/0.8 DSL would be perceived as blazingly fast if it weren't for sites all being gigantic webdev framework garbage rather than proper documents with basic interactivity where needed.

@navi I so hate the antipattern of privileging a particular domain like this.

@aaron @rysiek Well that's not what I've been hit by.

The thing is, pre-cut veg *is* for lazy people. Laziness isn’t a crime. It’s also convenient for busy parents and folks working long hours.

Accessibility is for everyone.
It is extremely rare that something accessible to a disabled person makes things *less* accessible for the non-disabled.

@Susan60 @Sarah111well @Troggie In some specific cases this is true, but when stated as a general principle like that it's likely purity cult bs.

@hipsterelectron They don't and in general can't. Mechanically, symlinks are nothing but arbitrary byte stores until accessed. They need not point within the same filesystem or even to a real filesystem entity at all.

@rysiek I'm told LLM scrapers don't realtime recurse links but save their loot and process it later offline, possibly on a different IP address.

@hipsterelectron Yes you've made the key discovery: that symlinks belong to the user and that your software isn't supposed to second guess the user by trying to resolve or reason about them in ways that break what the user is doing with them. At most offer -P/-L functionality.

@rysiek Keep in mind browser prefetch is a thing too.

@berkes @rysiek Bye AI simp.

Dear fedi, I am thinking of building-in some LLM scraper bot traps into my website.

One of the ideas is links down near the bottom of each blogpost or page that are hidden in CSS (so that no human would click them) that when clicked immediately put the client IP address on naughty list.

I want to understand better how CSS-hidden links work for #Blind visitors and others using screen readers or other assistive technologies.

The last thing I'd want is to inconvenience any human! :blob0w0:

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@markwyner "we launched a Twitter poll"

OK, that was enough for me to conclude the CC team is completely untrustworthy.

Looks like they're competing with the FSF for who can better betray the users of their licenses... 🤬

First, they liken AI training to open-source:

“CC is dedicated to facilitating greater openness for the common good. CC thus supports, in principle, broad access and use of copyright works, including openly licensed content, to train AI in the public interest…to ensure sharing ultimately benefits the public.”

The inherent problem with this is that AI training does not benefit the public. Trained AI is a commercial product. It only serves stakeholders and wealthy tech bros.

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A question for folks out there who read fiction. I am an indie author with a new book. I do not use AI in my writing. Should I put a note or sticker on the cover which says something like "This story is entirely human generated" or "no AI was used in the making of this book." Would readers be interested / reassured by knowing it is all human-made? My covers are also designed using photos I took myself.

Edit: Please boost for reach.

#IndieAuthor #Bookstodon

@QasimRashid Last I checked children don't vote and don't get to decide whether to have shitbrained parents.

@lispi314 I dunno but piping thru head could do it. Catch the error exit & rm the incomplete file.

I really, really want to do some more coding right now. Trying to fight it, as there are so many other things I *need* to do. But it would be so nice to just immerse myself in code all day long and not think about or have to deal with anything else. Coding is tricky sometimes, but computers are so logical. Being immersed in that is bliss.