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wildrhythmson News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

Every day we inch closer to a 'digital passport' gatekeeping system.

wildrhythmson Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags

>You'll end up staying at the hotel which spends the most money on getting itself into the training data and forcing reviews on people immediately before the stay is up

...and how does your "by hand" process solve this problem? You are influenced by the same SEO crap regardless of AI intervention.

wildrhythmson Eat Real Food

It's not just the price of the food, it's the time cost of going to the store, preparing the ingredients, cooking, washing dishes... You are looking at the issue through a myopic lens.

wildrhythmson Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system

Conflating the state of Israel with "the Jews" is antisemitic. Many Jews do not support the state of Israel whatsoever.

wildrhythmson Google Opal

The goal of every startup is to be acquired.

wildrhythmson American Heart Association Revives Theory Light Drinking May Be Good for You

Coincidence?

August 13, 2025 U.S. Drinking Rate at New Low as Alcohol Concerns Surge

>WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of U.S. adults who say they consume alcohol has fallen to 54%, the lowest by one percentage point in Gallup’s nearly 90-year trend. This coincides with a growing belief among Americans that moderate alcohol consumption is bad for one’s health, now the majority view for the first time.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/693362/drinking-rate-new-low-al...

wildrhythmson Exe.dev

Likewise. I think it might be experiencing a hug of death :)

wildrhythmson Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files

Error 404 Object not found This object does not exist or is not publicly accessible at this URL. Check the URL of the object that you're looking for or contact the owner to enable Public access.

wildrhythmson Building a Toast Component

Good idea, but impossible to do when the user switches away from where the initial async interaction began.

wildrhythmson Building a Toast Component

Zero effort, and it's basically a crude visualization of a good old message bus :P

wildrhythmson Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again

Unionize

wildrhythmson PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

This kind of reply is not a good look for you or your company I think

wildrhythmson ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship

A pro-surveillance state 'hacker' very cool stuff.

wildrhythmson ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship

I've lived in 6 different states and never once got fingerprinted when obtaining a driver's license.

wildrhythmson iPad Pro with M5 chip

Reading books on a LCD is miserable compared to e ink.

wildrhythmson iPad Pro with M5 chip

The mouse driven experience on iPad OS is awful. And switching between apps leads to apps suspending themselves in the background when I don't want them to. And Safari aggressively suspends browser tabs on iPad so you lose any kind of web page state.

wildrhythmson IRS open sources its fact graph

I file in multiple states and unfortunately Cashapp taxes said it doesn't support that use case the last time I tried. Freetaxusa worked great though.

wildrhythmson How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter

This is why I wear earplugs when I commute on the NYC subway which is notoriously loud. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2707461/

wildrhythmson Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

You keep saying this, but the UN considers Gaza Ministry of Health reporting to be reliable. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/despite-bidens-dou...

wildrhythmson Apple Debuts iPhone 17

What AI models?

wildrhythmson The attr() function in CSS now supports types

We have that, it's called Tailwind and it's wonderful

wildrhythmson Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests

>your grandparents probably read for entertainment instead of tiktok

This is a reach... Have you met old people? They vegetate in front of the TV channel surfing- their version of TikTok- never questioning the content or researching topics further on their own. And after 40 years of this activity still don't know how to operate the remote.

wildrhythmson Here's how to get ChatGPT to stop being an overly flattering yes man

It's customer service speak

wildrhythmson Federal cuts disrupt repairs to iconic U.S. trails

Where are the Marxists?

wildrhythmson Jeff Geerling won't connect his dishwasher to your stupid cloud [video]

What scares me is if these appliances will connect to any open network in order to phone home without the user's consent.

wildrhythmson Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs

Pixels already have the Screenshots app that indexes screenshots and makes them searchable. My assumption is the context window size is still too small for all of your data to go into it.

wildrhythmson Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs

No you don't understand, more queries = more engagement!

wildrhythmson The iPad's "Sweet Solution"

wildrhythmson Xbox pushes ahead with new generative AI

Tl;Dr a hammer looking for a nail.

wildrhythmson TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

>the overall harmful effects of the algorithmic firehose

What material effects are those?