Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges.
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Okay what about...what about uhhh...
Static site builders that render the whole page out as an image map, making it visible for humans but useless for crawlers
AI these days reads text from images better than humans can
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Capitalism isn’t your friend and will never serve you
If only you understood anything you were talking about. Oh well!
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Well there you have it. Although I still feel weird that it's somehow "the internet" that's supposed to solve a problem that's fully caused AI companies and their web crawlers.
If a crawler keeps spamming and breaking a site I see it as nothing short of a DOS attack.Not to mention that
robots.txtis completely voluntary and, as far as I know, mostly ignored by these companies. So then what makes you think that any them are acting in good faith?To me that is the core issue and why your position feels so outlandish. It's like having a bully at school that constantly takes your lunch and your solution being: "Just bring them a lunch as well, maybe they'll stop."
The solution is breaking intellectual property and making sharing public data easy and efficient. A top-down imposition DESIGNED to crush the giants back down to the level playing field of the small players into a system where cooperation empower the small and place the burdens on the big with the understanding that all public data is "our" data and nobody, including its custodian should get between US and IT. Something designed by actually competent and clever politicians who will anticipate and counter all the dirty tricks big tech would try to regain the upper hand. I want big tech permanently losing on a field designed to disadvantage anything that accumulates power.
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I mean, tech bros of the past invented the internet
Those are not the tech bros. The tech bros are the ones who move fast and break things. The internet was built by engineers and developers
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I wasn't being totally serious, but also, I do think that while accessibility concerns come from a good place, there is some practical limitation that must be accepted when building fringe and counter-cultural things. Like, my hidden rebel base can't have a wheelchair accessible ramp at the entrance, because then my base isn't hidden anymore. It sucks that some solutions can't work for everyone, but if we just throw them out because it won't work for 5% of people, we end up with nothing. I'd rather have a solution that works for 95% of people than no solution at all. I'm not saying that people who use screen readers are second-class citizens. If crawlers were vision-based then I might suggest matching text to background colors so that only screen readers work to understand the site. Because something that works for 5% of people is also better than no solution at all. We need to tolerate having imperfect first attempts and understand that more sophisticated infrastructure comes later.
But yes my image map idea is pretty much a joke nonetheless
Don't worry, we were never going to make anything 100% accessible anyway, that would be impossible.
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I mean, tech bros of the past invented the internet
Nah, that was DARPA
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I mean, tech bros of the past invented the internet
Those were tech nerds. "Tech bros" are jabronis who see the tech sector as a way to increase the value of the money their daddies gave them.
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If only you understood anything you were talking about. Oh well!
Yeah it sure is a shame lol
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Imagine if it was people’s happiness and freedom instead of quarterly profits
- Whose happiness and freedom?
- How is it to be measured?
- Capitalists honestly believe that free trade is the best albeit flawed way to do both of the above
It's definitely valid to disagree about point #3, but then you need to give a better model for #1 and #2
- Optimise for maximum happiness and freedom and minimum suffering on a societal level, while making sure that a certain threshold of freedom-from-suffering is met for every single individual. (So that happiness for the majority is not reached via the suffering of minorities.) Obviously there can be arguments about where we draw the lines for the specifics of these.
- Quite a few ways have been developed to measure happiness, wellbeing, flourishing, quality of life, whatever nuance you want to pick.
- We have ample proof that it's a system that fundamentally undermines societal happiness by incentivising the accumulation of wealth at the expense of the wellbeing of people and ecosystems. It's decades overdue to radically change the way the world's economy works. (Which is of course not something those with the most power want, so unlikely to happen any time soon.)
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The complaint that got blamed on capitalism was:
The information age gave way for the misinformation age, where everything is fake.
and if there's one entity/person most responsible for that, it's Putin or the GOP. Most of it is political, and very little to do with capitalism itself. Except that capitalism surrounds and is intertwined with everything.
Still, if you get rid of capitalism, it doesn't get rid of politics. I'd argue that the root of the issue is the GOP trying to hoard power (money and otherwise), and power is going to exist with or without capitalism. Is North Korea capitalist? Do they have issues with disinfo?
This Christian Sharia Law movement doesn't exist for money.
Capitalism itself is political. But the point I was making was that capitalism was the driving force of enshittenfication of all our technology that could be used for helping us all but instead it’s only about profit. Which is capitalism..
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Capitalism itself is political. But the point I was making was that capitalism was the driving force of enshittenfication of all our technology that could be used for helping us all but instead it’s only about profit. Which is capitalism..
Two of the largest drivers are religion, christians wanting their Sharia Law, and Russia taking political control of the US.
Capitalism is in the top three, sure. It's also part of the driver of that technology.
I don't think we should worship capitalism as we have, but I don't think getting rid of capitalism as a whole solves more problems than it creates.
Give me capitalism with heavy socialist controls and political separation please, thanks. The general idea of using money as a measure of what society owes you isn't terrible. It's allowing that measure to get so out of whack and have such inordinate control of everything that is the problem.
