Well, lucky for him he didn't even entertain the ceasefire to see if he could have gotten them all back.
Overzeetop
joined 1 year ago
There are people out there - a lot of people - who thing he's smart. Humans are a failed evolutionary experiment.
I'm not rich enough to hate Google. I have a couple of domains and several people who use them for email. I have calendars with people across device ecosystems. I don't have the hours and hours to keep up with fighting spammers or an infinite budget to hire someone else who will guarantee my privacy to do it. What are my options? Is Microsoft or Yahoo any better?
I've been with Google since they were a Do No Evil company. Now that they Do Evil, they already have terabytes of my old data in storage to mine. Adding a few more GB isn't going to make a hill of beans difference.
Also, I recognize nuance - Google, well Alphabet, isn't one company. It's a huge conglomerate of, sometimes competing, interests. That's a distinction that often gets lost in online discussions. Whether I hate Youtube's profit arc or not doesn't really affect my impression of the Gsuite services I rely on.
Wait until I tell you that the US is indebted to Japan for that same amount ($1.1T) and to China for nearly that amount ($0.9T). Sure it's a bigger portion of the available funds in the developing world, but on the scale of superpowers, it's not so much.
You sully the good name of Internet Pirates, sir or madam. I'll have you know that online pirates have a code of conduct and there is no value in promulgating an anti-ai or anti-anti-ai stance within the community which merely wishes information to be free (as in beer) and readily accessible in all forms and all places.
You are correct that the pirates will always win, but they(we) have no beef with ai as a content generation source. ;-)
It appears that it's a DNS issue, since I use either cloudflare or google as my DNS
From reddit:
archive.today (and its aliases: .is .fo .il .md .ph .vn) actively sabotages DNS queries coming from Cloudflare (1.1.1.1, etc.), Quad9 (9.9.9.9, etc.), and possibly others (I didn't check but there were reports that Google's 8.8.8.8 is affected as well). The inconsistent results can be due to DNS cashing.
Obviously, switching to your ISPs DNS server or to a third party one that isn't affected will fix the issue, but people have legitimate reasons for using those DNS servers and since archive.today is the only site that refuses to play the most plausible explanation is asshattery, and a better approach would be give them the finger and advocate the use of archive.org instead.
The odd bit is that flags anyone going through those DNS lookups by implying that it's your computer or your corporate network which is infected with malware.
Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA?
Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property.
What can I do to prevent this in the future?
If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware.
If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices.
It does look like the DNS is the issue, as I just threw on the VPN - which doesn't use the local DNS configuration - and it loaded up (after the capcha).
Both Chrome (with uBlock, even after turning on 3rd party cookies) and Firefox (vanilla, but always set to private browsing) are just in infinite loop of captchas on archive.ph for me - most don't even result in a photo-square, but even those that do just loop back to the blocked page.
Its a joke - yes.
Though, realistically, an empathy test would probably filter out a large portion of the haters. It's harder to hate when you internalize the condition of others.
Sad, but true. About the only way to control it would be to require online comments to be directly identifiable to the person. Even Republicans appear to be embarrassed - and attempt to expunge their vitriol - when their homophobic, misogynistic, and racist comments and activities online are publicized. And even that wouldn't eliminate it, it would just push it back underground to further fester.
Well, that' just leads to an uncompleteable captcha and a litany of 3rd party cookies. How about this one:
Oooh, that's gonna leave a mark.
The way I read it was a ceasefire in return for some of the hostages. Nobody floats their final offer with the first contact.