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They are aiming for 100% parity with existing SDKs and APIs. Most FOSS alternatives won't get anywhere near that.

Oh it's not free. You're paying with your data.

For 99% of users who want to download TV shows/music/movies, The Pirate Bay is enough. I don't understand why you'd ever pay for a private tracker or Usenet unless you're looking for obscure/old stuff.

For what it's worth I agree with you. I've never understood the appeal of these bloated apps.

I'm a developer and have never considered the need for an alternative file explorer.

Can you please briefly describe the features you think make it worth it?

How the fuck is it 20 years later and browsers still struggle with downloading files?!

There's no doubt JDownloader is impressive but I absolutely hate using it. It feels like an absolute hog. Slow to open, slow to process links, slow to start downloading, insanely slow to extract archives, and for my money it tries to do far, far, far, far too much.

All the apps claim to run in the browser via WASM but no links are provided. Are there any live demos of these hosted somewhere?

By all means, show us the endless network of cavernous tunnels you've hand-dug under your own home, then.

Any mirrors which don't require giving clicks to neo-Twitter, please?

Out of interest, how do you know that Anthropic has ingested your books? Is there a way to prove it? And how do you calculate the compensation figure? Finally, why just Anthropic? Did OpenAI not do the same?

I'm not familiar with the world of academic publishing, so I want to ask: how is the industry making sure that submissions aren't at least partially AI-generated?

Is it standard practice for authors to have to defend their submissions via interview like this? If not, why not?

Does the vetting process vary with the quality of the publisher?

As an outsider, it's extremely worrying that anyone would even attempt to submit an AI-generated paper for publication in an academic journal. At that level I would have assumed literally everybody should know better than to even try.

> "Endeladyze said she felt terrible that she had upset her customers, but she was also frustrated at the idea that she should have been paying a real artist. Making these signs was a job only she had done herself or with employees in the past, never hiring outsiders."

This seems like the wrong attitude to take after experiencing such a backlash. If she'd made the signs herself for years then why resort to using AI to produce what is so obviously a generic slop result?

The article says she paid $150 for printing and $200 for a stand. Why not throw another $200 towards an artist?

The actual saying is "The customer is always right in matters of taste."

It is misquoted on a criminally large scale.

What kind of systems are generating enough useful analytics data to ever scale to petabytes in the first place?

It's difficult (for my bird brain, at least) to imagine a scenario where such volume of analytics data would ever be necessary.

Yeah that's cool but your blog won't load on my hardened Firefox:

- Uncaught TypeError: navigator.sendBeacon is not a function

- Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: WebAssembly is not defined

Not sure why a blog entry needs WebAssembly but I'll give it a pass.

I wholeheartedly agree on every point. I've felt this way for years. It's scandalous.

Many companies also rely on socials as their only effective means of customer service. If you have a problem or want to provide feedback but you don't use social media then you are SOL.

> "size of the World Wide Web (The Internet)"

The WWW is not the internet.

Most of the time when people try to define healthy food vs. junk food in a fair and unbiased way, the line gets drawn at "whole foods" vs "processed foods".

A typical burger meal is definitely processed food because the meat is processed mechanically and mixed from different sources (usually with added fat); the bun is made from refined flour and refined oils; and the fries are thinly-cut potatoes blanched and fried in more refined oils. (Not to mention a whole bunch of chemical additives which are the norm rather than the exception; and "hyperpalatability" tweaks which means the food is formulated to taste unnaturally good.)

You could perhaps argue that a home-made burger meal made using whole cuts of meat, a lean wholemeal bread dough, and potatoes roasted in animal fat could count as a healthy/whole food meal, but it would taste different to the typical hamburger meal we all associate with fast food.

Fast food also has an enormous marketing industry behind it which pushes it in unhealthy volume, with maximum convenience, and at (until recently, at least) affordable prices.

Me: "Huh, I wonder what 'Toast' from 'mixedbread.com' is. Sounds interesting..."

clicks link

> "Toast 1, our search agen-"

closes page

Apple will never, ever add anything even close to that kind of functionality. This is a company which took SEVENTEEN YEARS before it allowed iPhone users to have gaps between app icons on their home screens.

If you have ANY hope of Apple letting you have enough control over your device to visually block ads in apps then you are stratospherically shit outta luck.

> We are building lots. Of everything.

Did you read the headline?

Do you know what article you're commenting on?

Why does this article use backticks instead of apostrophes?

Yeah, my experience of Twitter has improved dramatically since I deleted my account and disavowed it completely. I don't even visit the domain. If I need to visit a link, I'll change the domain to xcancel.com instead.

Now THAT is an improved web experience!

I'd happily drive a Chinese car but I've yet to see one which has physical buttons for controls. They all seem to have gigantic tablet displays. I categorically refuse to buy a car where I can't adjust the climate controls while keeping my eyes on the road.

1. Why is this website blocked when I try browsing it using Brave?

2. Why on earth would you want a financial product from a WAF?content delivery company?

But then how do you make knee-jerk reactions on social media to vilify those who hold politically opposite views to yours?

Wow. Opinions on LLMs aside, the CEO writing an article like that makes me think fly.io is a deeply unserious company.

> Decries AI for producing slop

> Uses AI to produce website

Replace "Facebook" with "heroin" in your argument and see how ridiculous you sound.