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    Comment #47394752

    I totally agree, we should aim for all three harm reduction measures.

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    Comment #47394747

    That works too, though it'll of course result in a smaller selection and therefore smaller impact on the real market.

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    Comment #47394745

    So no real arguments against it, only insults. That's great news, thank you! :)

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    Comment #47179599

    > It makes no sense for a foundation supporting open source to also support this massive copyright massacre. Copyright is a fundamentally unethical concept and must die. Open sourc…

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    Comment #47059627

    AI != big corps, and humans are awful.

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    Comment #47059565

    # Anna’s Archive > We are a non-profit project with two goals: > 1. Preservation: Backing up all knowledge and culture of humanity. > 2. Access: Making this knowledge and culture a…

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    Comment #47059563

    "Piracy is great until it hurts me, then piracy is bad."

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    Comment #47059550

    LLM crawlers aren't really a thing, at least not in the "they have agency over what they're crawling and read what they crawl" way.

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    Comment #45383918

    > The User may not use this Work for prejudiced or bigoted purposes, including but not limited to: ... pedophilia apology, zoophilia apology, ... MAP rights are human rights

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    Comment #39547217

    That's fair enough. I think that falls under similar arguments to adblocking; it's against ToS, and affects the revenues of ad-supported businesses, but it seems like the popular v…

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    Comment #39546245

    > So yes, if you indicate to me that you're a pedophile, I am calling the cops or other relevant authorities (none come to mind) to report it. Not because I want to have you arrest…

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    Comment #39528391

    I'm just an outsider, but I wonder if these sort of bot-blocker-bypass services can be done by employing people to go to those pages manually.

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    Comment #39528347

    What about something like Nitter? Archiving? Adversarial bridging between different platforms? Automation? How will well-behaved scrapers undermine the sustainability of a business…

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    Comment #39503399

    China's not communist anymore.

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    Comment #39498623

    I'm part of a marginalised group that is often considered to be illegal in many countries, or at the very least, very off-putting. (In 50 years, perhaps, things will change and we …

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    Comment #39483222

    Not really, I think it's more apt to compare it to the dot-com bubble, given AI's obvious value to the average consumer.

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    Comment #37201601

    I'm not a mod, but I think it might be best not to continue this discussion right now out of respect for Kris.

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    Comment #36981305

    In addition to your sibling comments, here's how they're achieving the effect: 1. JS loads from https://cdn.asahilinux.org/.h which contains a list of "blocked browser history entr…

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    Comment #36929811

    I'm surprised by how easy and literally one-click it was to use that. Bravo, Tor Project team.

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    Comment #36929700

    Thanks for asking. I haven't finished thinking it through, and I am young without much experience, but I think a possible avenue would be a return to the expectation that there is …

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    Comment #36929023

    > The detachment from reality I see in some HN readers is really mind boggling sometimes. I try to balance it out by flagging unconstructive comments, leaving it alone, and partici…

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    Comment #36928988

    This is great advice! Instead of expecting non-techies to handle the migration to more ethical platforms by themselves or leaving them in the control of large corporations, us tech…

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    Comment #36860620

    > I just tried it. I created an account on a Lemmy instance. Now I also want to join other instances. But how to do it? I won't create an account for every instance, but I'm stuck …