If this were true (which is nearly impossible since you said “all”), stuff like Anubis wouldn’t exist since you could just toss up a crowd-sourced robots.txt and be done with it.

This issue is largely manifesting through AI scraping right now. Additionally, many intentionally ignore robots.txt. Currently, LLM scrapers are basically just bad actors on the internet. Courts have also ruled in favor of a number of AI companies when sued in the US, so it’s unlikely anything will change. Effectively, if you don’t like the status quo, stuff like this is one of your few options.

This isn’t even mentioning of course whether we actually want these companies to improve their models before resolving the problems of energy consumption and potential displacement of human workers.

Corporations want the existing copyright system for their own products but simultaneously want to freely scrape data from everyone else.

The comments for stuff like this on Yahoo, Fox, etc. are always completely disturbed.

I mean, they say earlier that music is actually well-preserved, but it’s disproportionately popular music. If the goal is then to preserve everything, I’d expect them to go for stuff that isn’t likely to be in some random audiophile’s collection or whatever then.

1. Over-focus on the most popular artists. There is a long tail of music which only gets preserved when a single person cares enough to share it. And such files are often poorly seeded.

• We primarily used Spotify’s “popularity” metric to prioritize tracks. View the top 10,000 most popular songs in this HTML file (13.8MB gzipped).
• For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).
• For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.

Perhaps I’m reading this wrong, but is this not a little backwards? Since unpopular music is poorly preserved, shouldn’t the focus be on getting the least popular music first?

Dunno if the polls are fully reliable, but this doesn’t surprise me since the few views I’ve heard her express have been pretty shit.

first public speech since becoming chief of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency two months ago.

It took two months just to repeat what was already known lol

Shock.

Anyway, the article only specifically mentions MTG and Mace as feeling like they aren’t taken seriously. I think it’d be stranger if they both were taken seriously since they’re fucking clowns.

You’re triggering my PTSD from the weekly cross-team meetings I’m forced to attend.

Good luck I guess. Looking it up briefly gives US families having $1+ million net worth being in the 80th or 90th percentile (depending on the source), so somewhere between 1/5 and 1/10 families.

Are you talking about people with like 10s or 100s of millions or are you including people with just 1 million? In a number of places, you basically cannot easily buy a house without something approaching 1 million (which is a problem itself).

Also, I’ve seen this statement here several times now. Where is the line? 1 million is a pretty arbitrary value, so how many thousands is too much?

It says they’ll have to renegotiate every year, so presumably upper.

The politicians in this country are completely out of touch with reality.

I’m guessing the problem is they want a relatively unique font to avoid looking the same as other games, and then once they’ve chosen their font they’re pretty much stuck with it unless they’re willing to change the look of their game (for live-service games at least). A number of the fonts there might work for new stuff though.

Realistically if a game company made their own font, they’d probably do that and then have to go through and piecemeal add more kanji that they used. Or just use hiragana/katakana for those words I guess.

Ancient Peruvians were masters of AI technology.

Yeah, sure, but a number of them still exist. They’re just mostly reliant on word of mouth now (or using something other than Google). There’s some old Star Wars forums that seem to still be surviving, for example.

They still exist, they’re just kind of rare. There’s even federated forums like NodeBB. I actively read stuff on SpaceBattles, Sufficient Velocity, etc. It’s admittedly difficult to find something with absolutely no like/karma system, but for instance the hellhole known as GameFAQs still exists.

Interesting username.