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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.