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They're just silently waiting. No need to make a big show, just simply being the best alternative is enough of a pitch.

Emacs does everything. I want everything to be more like Emacs

Counter proposal: stop making gui, ONLY make TUI. + seamless cli integration + network portable + graphics (!!) with modern emulators + always themable + scriptable + works with an…

A few points for people: 1. some books are out of print. 2. some books CANNOT return to print. 3. all books prior to the 21st century are products of human minds. 4. copyright exte…

I have a tidy collection of books that are odd or fascinating to me. They're old. But you mistake people like me for being made of money. Old books shouldn't simply vanish. That is…

Reading this is sad. Marvin The Paranoid Android Tries Business.

I wonder how much of AI is about owning all knowledge, deskilling the masses, reducing access, etc.? The end goal might be actual legit surfdom. Without the means to elevate the pe…

They're removing knowledge from the public domain. I don't mean copyright: I mean the very information published is being destroyed.

This has been reported of other major ai shops. It is a little chilling that they're going after rare books. For the record, i don't much have issue with llms and such. But... the …

the ratio of this comment vs. parent is absurd. tfa's prior mentions "anti-cheat" in games. while cheaters do suck, a lot of draconian trash has crept in under the guise of that ba…

While it is a neat parlor trick, a lot of people have specific grevience against the application to art. AI has only served to further disempower artists broadly, and arguably it p…

TESSRAL, and no link... not a clever troll.