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Or as a personal note. I use Goodreads to track what I read and if I liked it or not, what was it about, so I don't accidentally buy the same book again after half a year :V

I, personally, like mistakes in writing (as with in painting or singing) - I feel that it gives the art an additional depth, context, detail and comparison with author earlier/later works, other authors.

I believe that art function is to communicate - we create art, type letters, paint graffiti, verbal-vomit in online game PvP match to make a connection with other people.

So the mistakes are only adding to the art: "cooking this is difficult, and everyone do mistakes, but it's made with love and intuition, not blind recipe". Well, I can continue with examples of kissing but I guess I am repeating myself, haha.

I believe that being perfect is not human, and life doesn't have to be perfect. Getting better is great! But so is making mistakes.

(Or, dunno, maybe I have more to learn and I will some day think in a different way.)

Just like with mass-manufactured furniture, some of us seek hand-made items, as it feels more human, despite its flaws.

As a decade long blogger I am actually thinking about writing more to paper magazines now - a 1000 paper magazine readers are more than 100 from rare Google traffic (:

Really unique footage! This would have looked primal to Romans 2000 years ago, and it's surprising this happened in 60's.

...And this battle do seem fun a bit, as funny as it sounds. :-) Gang up with the boys, throw some spears, get hit, die in tall grasses, looking into sky, wind cooling you... And no email/slack messages to worry about. :-)

It is also unlikely that, if such AI was used, it would have been used to edit a billion articles about obscure species of plants and insects.

Please read the words 5-7 again :-)

We have this situation in lithuanian web for a two decades now.

Once the big news networks (DELFI.lt, 15min.lt, lrytas.lt, alfa.lt and few others) bought out the largest blogs and connected them to their own domains, there isn't much of an independent web left. Owners of the websites back then gladly sold out (and I would have done it too), because it seemed like a great idea to sell your work back in the 2008-ish for real profit, an unique chance (imagine monetising your content when you have only 3 mil. theoretical consumers! There isn't much lithuanian speakers) and especially during the economic crisis.

Then the other blogs were attached to the networks by the generous offers of "let us publish and we will give backlinks, maybe" + "we will just copy it because we know that you won't bother taking us to court, it's too small of a country, you know".

So now whatever you google, you get mostly these results: 7 big network sites and subsites, 2 auto-translated AI slop generated by someone in other side of the planet, 0.9 of business pages and 0.1 something actually personal.

No wonder that almost all content creators moved to social networks by the 2015-ish. They still are there.

I wonder what will change this. A web apocalypse? Mass demand of in-person, non-online "content"? I wonder...

And even language itself changes how we think. We can blame the romans for making english the lingua franca.

Wait, I wouldn't want to get recipe or furniture suggestions from a human? It would be impossible? I can see how it could be a burden, but can't see how it would be impossible... (Or am I misunderstanding?)

How is letting users to disable bloat a bad feature?

For example, can you remove Chess from MacOS? Nope! Why? What I found on Reddit, it seems because it's integral part of MacOS somehow and I am a bad person for even asking, somehow.

Until we make a really long USB-C cable.

...or, just, use the moon servers as an extreme form of backups only. Rarely used, used only for the essential data.

Sorry, how would shopping cart (list of products to be soon bought) in an iframe is "better" than outputting it straight to the page HTML? Wouldn't it make it hard to design it?

Here in Lithuania it's mostly due to customer demand - customers want for open source systems that could be easily modified, would work "just like the old site did", finding developers would be cheap/easy and if launching and hosting site is cheap too, it's all the better.

When you write down all the demands, there aren't much options left. Drupal and Opencart are used, but WordPress is used for 90% of the sites mostly due to demand/requirements.

True, but shared hosting providers (like hostinger) offers basically the same, but for cheaper and no pricing per website, even on cheaper plans you can fit five or more sites in.

Of course, it doesn't matter in the end - as long as users have ability to choose a hosting there will be cheaper and "better" options. Shopyfing wordpress would be worse...

Your arguments are making it hard to not be snarky when responding.

But your arguments are blaming "the EU" for clouds shadowing the sun, as to say - "the EU" doesn't have a strategy of maliciously importing migrants. And even if it did, migrants are not somehow magically bad. Having migration in Europe is not a new thing, it was so for thousands of years now - migrations of war refugees, religious and cultural groups, invasions and other restructurisations of countries...

To keep trade going + keep using internet, but also somehow stop people moving + culture changing is impossible. If you have freedom, you have freedom.

(And why do your arguments have a smell of "let's forget about Frontex"?)

Are you also proposing to reject all the subsidies too? Or just leave the EU but keep getting investments, somehow?

Italy not only can close the outer borders, but Italy must and doesn't (doesn't work hard enough).

That's what Frontex is all about. Same in Lithuania - not only it can close outer borders, but it has a requirement to do so.

So unless being sovereign is about having borders open, this argument doesn't work.

Isn't it geothermal? So just drill deeper..? Or something? (I am a dummy at this topic, just asking.)

A library is similar to search engine - it can't have (display) all possible items (results), so there is also a bias for selection.

It's not easy for a truly creative, new and unique content to get into your local library.

I'm not sure about your local laws, but at least in Lithuania it's completely legal to give a wrong advice (by accident, of course)... Even a notary specialist would at most get to pay a larger insurance payment for a while, because human errors falls under professional insurance.

Side-topic, but for Biomechanical Stages (BMS) author skipped from pure muscle to industry ignoring the part where humanity started using animals for heavy/hard tasks of pulling, carrying, pushing.

It's debatable if choice/want/accident of having children is based on genetics.

Cool tool! I was always doing this manually... :-D

Only complain I have is that there is no setting to display Monday as the first day on the calendar display, not Sunday.

What I super love about Guild Wars 2 wiki is that it embraces the API that the game has - enter your personal API code and get personalized Achievement, Item progress and etc. tracking. Super cool!

Oh, and, yeah, I probabbly have "/wiki et" as a muscle memory now - it's so fast and easy to check in-game events using this chat command.

Yeah, I expected something more serious (like tracking usage analytics, scrapping data for some content generator or etc.) but it seems like the real problem is a minor function that {a lot} of users don't even know about?

I would argue that video of taking a shit could display video production and marketing skills better than, let's say, doing a socially unacceptable political rant.

But I agree that probabbly being super racist is currently more accepted in some social media than showing genitals. I'm not promoting it, of course.

Yeah but having sex on tape isn't something special or shameful.

The only way to prove humanity is to spew slurs and edgy jokes all the time. (AI is not going to be edgy.)

But USA companies leaving EU is better for competition - smaller EU-based companies can try to copy the model and do their own thing.

For example, for Uber, lack of it (it took a while to come to some countries) already spawned lots of successful competition.