Huh, the latest model just one-shot through my private cultural sensitivity test. In the past they got stuck into the nudity filters and you really had to assure the models that no, this is normal in Finland. The latest Veo models one-shot the male models, but needed extra coaxing for them to allow women to appear in the videos.

Of course the output is like we'd sensor these kinds of videos into a news broadcast, people have towels on and wear bathing suits.

The writing had been on the wall for a while. Hopefully this'll finally drive the usage of the site down.

What are the alternatives besides the IA?

megalodon.jp is a good archive.

I would recommend

https://ghostarchive.org/

Surprised that using visitors for DDoS attacks wasn't enough already.

There's been quite a lot of people still defending the site. Basically "who cares about DDoS attacks and altering archived sites' content when it allows bypassing paywalls?"

well, yeah

Setting my user-agent to Googlebot in a private window bypasses most paywalls just fine. Surprised at how many sites aren't checking against the published IP ranges.

The few people willing to change their user-agent aren't worth the extra complexity.

not sure why this is downvoted. they modified their captcha so that visitors contributed to a ddos against a blog, on top of a handful of other threats, tampering of archived data, etc.

they are not great people.

As a personal vendetta against Jani Patokallio (a Finnish cybersecurity blogger) who was trying to unmask the person who ran the site - which goes back to 2023.

I don't really care about that though, because trying to dox someone and get them killed isn't a good or moral thing to do. You could easily just not do that. You have to really go out of your way to try and hunt someone down, and at any point you could just not do it. For the targeted person to want revenge is just an inevitability.

Why do you need archive if you can disable JS for most website?

i can certainly spin one up, use your site visits to DDoS people i dont like, and secretly edit the archived content if you want? apparently that will win me an army of hn defenders.

so fucking strange that people are playing defense for that. even forgetting the DDoS part, people don't care that they are editing archived content? wild.

Can you tell me the address of the site and I'll tell all my friends to use it instead of archive.today?

Residential proxies DDoSing half the internet is standard operating procedure this decade and yet everyone still buys connected garbage and monetizes their apps this way.

As history has already shown during the Nuremberg Trials, "Following orders" doesn't absolve the individual responsibility of the people under command.

Words have meaning.

Rogue would imply they are doing something at odds with the President’s wishes. The reality is worse.

Pardon powers, OTOH...

The Republican way:

There are those the law protects but does not bind.

And then there's us.

I think we're deep into a post-law environment at this point, though. People who weren't bound by the law will not be protected by it either.

Hello, it's me, ur guy (and surprisingly, I'm a part of the new generation!). There's probably dozens of us!

In my software development career I've always specialized on the UX, accessibility and platform convention side of the UI. I can't design any actual "pretty" UIs for the life of me :Dd

Inserted edit: Ok, totally forgot to mention that I am a full-stack dev, but definitely focus more on the abstract side of UI than the actual pixels on the screen.

Aside/relevant: Did you know that click-and-dragging a dropdown/select element to use/select/activate an action is an ancient cross-platorm pattern that was almost lost to time, because almost none of the modern web component frameworks forgot to implement it? Even more emphasizes the pop-cultureness aspect mentioned above :)

Ah, pull-down menus. I love them, use them all the time. Some modern web products actually implement them. Linear for example, and some UI libraries I’ve seen. I always add that interaction at the companies I work for, unprompted haha.

Because English is the odd one out with the non-obvious mapping of sounds to character.

Definitely. Something more onomatopoeiac like Chinese would be much clearer.

It could be that I'm totally yapping bullshit, but the "designing from scratch" can vary depending which field of maths you're talking about. For instance, if we model the semantics as a series of composable functions, then you only have to scratch only the specific dependency tree of the functions. Basically everything can be reused with no wasted work, and the output space gets culled.

Which is why I said to ignore RustBelt. Because we don't have formal semantics today, we only have the actual implementation which is not composable.

At least in Europe, there's an argument to be made about a Nitter instance being an interoperability service for clients that do not use cookies/JavaScript, and could be argued that it's protected under the interoperability exception under EU directive on legal protection of computer programs.

The directive gives quite wide exemptions for reverse engineering, but as there's no reverse engineering here, just documenting public APIs, codifying and interfacing with them, it seems it is more than OK for the compatibility layer to exist.

Technically there is already one, it's called HypeHype, but it's using their in-house graph-style editor. Vendor-lock-in out the whazoo.

Haven't followed them too closely, but wouldn't be surprised if they'd added LLM tools to the platform.

This could be probably rectified with an ongoing dono in their GitHub Sponsonships.

Unless the data collected is of a user that is an EU citizen. This needs prior approval and consent per GDPR.