literally 1984 😔

Considering all the stuff you've written, the let's say philosophical and ambivalent conclusion there feels inappropriate. A society that puts random innocent people without trial into a death camp is not stable. It all comes off as if the system just restructured the violence (who does it to who and by what means), rather than being on the path of eliminating it...

But it's an enlightening and valuable comment anyway, thank you. Do you know when was the deal with US made? I can't find it on Wikipedia...

I have no idea how much money 4chan which would determine whether it’s worth the effort at all.

Spoiler alert: it's not worth the effort.

In recent years there have been some feeble attempts at monetisation, but it was probably a failure.

I wonder if he's ever actually enjoyed and been sincerely enthusiastic about video games, or he's just playing them in a pathetic attempt to come off as cool and attractive to younger generations.

If the existence of open source LLMs hinges on the benevolence of one of the few most cancerous tech companies in the world, maybe they're not really worth it?

This isn't about "heroes" and "villains". Facebook has been and has stayed the "villain", they've done something colossally illegal that any mere mortal would be sued to death for (by an another "villainous" instance, the media system that has made piracy a necessity in the first place), and they're hoping to get away with it simply on technicalities and by having more money for better lawyers. Rules are rules, if you don't like them maybe Facebook should try to change them (and not just for themselves, but for the rest of us too)?

Hell, a lot of the time I just go directly to Sci-Hub / Anna's Archive because it's literally faster than searching for my university and logging in.

, it’s a salty article

Actually the author himself is somewhat harmed by this situation. I would be salty too. When I wish to write my CV, I can say: my text have been published at X and Y. Especially nice if it's an important and well known publication. Now a part of his CV is literally erased, he can't access his own texts anymore (not even on Internet Archive). That's... utterly ridiculous. It's a common practice to send the author a copy (or multiple) of the text he has published, he has every right to own a copy of them. Now the copy that was intended to be available to everyone is not available even to him. Something of the sort really has happened to me too when a website I published an article on a site underwent a redesign and now the text just isn't available anymore. Admittedly it's still on IA, but it's an awkward situation.

I don't get the impression there are even precise definitions of these generational labels.

And I don't think they make any sense at all outside of USA and maybe west Europe.

The taxi driver knows where he is at all times. He knows this because he knows where he isn't.

once you get into your 80s

Thank you for being so optimistic :)

During the exodus I remember I wanted to try Tildes, but it was closed off from new users. (I don't even understand why it was recommended.)

That's the weird part. Apparently it's existed long before the API shutdown, and they only started advertising it a little bit when they killed off reddit awards, as some sort of alternative.

Not that it would've succeeded either way, but it seems like they didn't even try?