I’m slightly suspicious of this article coming from Times of Israel, tho i’m not sure how sharing this serves Israeli interests

ah shit me and my friends used to do this, pre-social media. I remember one time in middle school recess, going out to the farthest corner of the playground with my friends, and we all did a thing where we took turns holding our breath while someone else squeezed our chest. I remember blacking out, hearing the pokemon theme in pitch darkness, and then waking up on the ground.

I don’t think we did it more than once (at least I didn’t). But of course, the crucial difference was that I was with my dumbass friends, so at least there was someone to run for help if someone didn’t wake up.

tbh if it’s on 404, it counts

go to reddit/r/worldnews, you can see the op alive and well over there.

Remember Motherboard, Vice’s popular sub-site for tech news? Well Vice shut it down and fired them, so they went and started 404 as a reader-funded publication.

that’s actually incredible. cybenetics is based!

i mean if they don’t paywall existing subs, and just make it an option for future subs…I could see a world where people use that for like their Patreon or something, like with invite-only Discords. But then, in my mind, that’s people paying Patreon to get access to an exclusive Reddit, and that wouldn’t bring Reddit new money, so maybe this isn’t working the way i’m thinking…

The beef between Microsoft and Reddit came to light after I published a story revealing that Reddit is currently blocking every crawler from every search engine except Google, which earlier this year agreed to pay Reddit $60 million a year to scrap the site for its generative AI products.

I know the author meant “scrape”, but sometimes it really does feel like AI is just scrapping the old internet for parts.

I am not, I just been subbed to them for a couple years now and I like when more people like the things that I like.

This is true, and it was a black mark against his record in my mind. But antitrust is not the same thing as pro-worker.

side note: I really love that we are accepting Gamers Nexus as Beehaw’s “newspaper of record” for news about computer hardware, and particularly the gaming computer hardware that is GN’s beat. They are such a great, independent outlet that rarely pulls its punches. All praise our Savior Tech Jesus!

thank you for sharing your experience! Good to hear an anecdote to the contrary.

That was my first thought too. Yet another reason to vote for Dems this November - only one party actually gives a shit about enforcing antitrust regulations!

aha. yeah that does it. i guess i never used that previously, so i have no comparison point for how well it worked before this deal. But sure enough, i get no results when searching very generic terms and filter to just the last week.

If you use Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Qwant or any other alternative search engine that doesn’t rely on Google’s indexing and search Reddit by using “site:reddit.com,” you will not see any results from the last week. DuckDuckGo is currently turning up seven links when searching Reddit, but provides no data on where the links go or why, instead only saying that “We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.” Older results will still show up, but these search engines are no longer able to “crawl” Reddit, meaning that Google is the only search engine that will turn up results from Reddit going forward.

Can anyone confirm this? I typically use DDG, and I tried verifying this, but i’m not sure what to search on reddit that would exclusively bring up results from the past week. Seems like most of the time I’m reading posts from a year ago or more anyway, so it’s hard to see the effect immediately.

This seems like the critical part to me:

The paper, released in November 2023, notes that even back in 2016 researchers were able to defeat reCAPTCHA v2 image challenges 70 percent of the time. The reCAPTCHA v2 checkbox challenge is even more vulnerable – the researchers claim it can be defeated 100 percent of the time.

reCAPTCHA v3 has fared no better. In 2019, researchers devised a reinforcement learning attack that breaks reCAPTCHAv3’s behavior-based challenges 97 percent of the time.

So it isn’t even effective at deterring bots? Then what the hell was all this for?

Let’s say Firefox went full privacy absolutist, with all tracking and advertising networks blocked by default. That would probably be the best user experience initially, but websites wouldn’t make any money from visitors outside of subscriptions, direct donations, or (if they can sell them) direct advertising. It would probably just encourage more sites to stop supporting Firefox completely, which is already enough of a problem that Mozilla maintains a list of hacks to make sites work properly in Firefox. Mozilla removing all analytics from Firefox itself would also make fixing bugs and prioritizing development more difficult.

Idk my read is that every browser has to do this a little bit, or else websites will stop devoting resources to supporting that browser. Firefox’s solution seems pretty reasonable when you take that into consideration. And Firefox still isn’t trying to stop you from installing 20 privacy add-ons and nuking anything that even whiffs of an ad.

Firefox is the only mobile browser I am aware of that allows extensions (including adblockers), and this let’s the user add functionality like having dark mode everywhere, even on sites that normally wouldn’t allow it.

I was like, is this his actual name and I just never realized?