Well I also do software engineering for a living, except I don’t just spam out a bunch of bullshit that has nothing to do with the project we’re talking about. “create the algorithms to parse and massage the raw data” my fucking sides… “front end GUI” as opposed to… backend TUI? If you knew anything about your job you’d see that most of the inner workings of the site is very well documented with multiple libraries ready to go for like 90% of the functionality. Just because you chicken out of anything that your precious LLM would deem too hard doesn’t mean everyone is else is a bad coder. Nothing would ever get made if people were like you.

Just FYI, I literally never said there’s nothing special about the site, that’s your halucination. I ASKED if there was anything special that would prevent recreating the functionality, but I know how hard it is for you to read. I wonder how you cope with a Jira ticket that’s longer than two sentences…

I thought fucking karmawhores with their dumbass opinions would stay on reddit…

Sounds like you’re the perfect candidate to do nothing about it and let the existing platform be enshitifed with providing nothing in return. Good luck with your defeatism.

That’s kinda what I was trying to point to. Yes it is a lot of work to replicate the functionality, but apparently Valve has no intention of “plugging the hole” this data is coming from, and I’m not sure NexusMods would have any ability to torpedo any potential alternatives as they also depend on a third party. So if/when the original enshitifies it would be possible to move on to a new platform.

What’s special about SteamDB that no real, fully fledged alternatives showed up yet? What would prevent someone from “forking” it?

We just had news about Bilibili going global, and their reaction is to increase prices even further?

They sometimes also provide alternative versions of games. I was very happy to buy Kane and Lynch (1 and 2), but the co-op feature is missing (both local and online). I guess that part was licensed differently or something

How far are we from orbital billboards?

If anything, that’s even easier to defeat than the current captchas, no? Like with a VTuber thing, or something like that. This feels more like it’s about collecting face data

I’ve been very happy with Netcup too as a European VPS provider. They have a coupon until the 17th if you decide to go with them, I think it applies 7EUR off of a purchase above 7EUR: netcupSpring26

As for throttling of the VPN traffic from the ISP side, that’s hard to say. Theoretically it’s possible they are doing deep packet inspection to specifically target VPN traffic, which would work through different ports, but I’d think that’s overkill. Maybe they’re doing it by protocol and just throttling UDP traffic, which would be easier, but I don’t know how to confirm that with mullvad.

I’m not sure about that, they had a 1B USD deal with Disney which is now cancelled

I’m skeptical about Sora getting killed. I think it’s very plausible that they just privated their model for internal use by the US gov. Sure, it’s one less power hungry AI video generator, but there are multiple of those available already, I don’t think it’s the win most people think it is.

This comes up every couple of months like some freshly uncovered secret. You can see it in Google trends too. I’m surprised to see this being so prevalent over the fediverse, I thought karma farming wasn’t a thing over here.

Serbia / Hungary.

My thoughts exactly. Also I wouldn’t really like to risk my stuff by connecting to their infrastructure anyway. At least over here, I saw how incompetent they are.

Yes, I just moved from github to a self hosted Forgejo instance the other week

Ooh, Australia, I have a question. Was PalTalk a big thing over there? Obviously way after what you described. I remember my father having an old classmate over from Australia and he introduced us to “The Internet”, and how instant messaging was possible a cross borders through PalTalk. Even though I never heard anyone using it in Europe, even years past that encounter.

From my other comment it looks like this dataset contains various strings that trigger refusal: https://huggingface.co/datasets/mlabonne/harmful_behaviors

Also, you might want to research this Heretic project, which aims to remove safeguards from local models as those might be similar to what’s in the larger versions. Figuring out the phrases they test the safeguards with might have some decent results.

Asking questions about Chinese politics and/or Tiananmen Square  stops most China based AI models, like Qwen and whatever is on Huawei phones. They aren’t that high traffic yet, but are certainly in the list of “all ai models”

In the videogame Wolfenstein: The New Order there’s mentions from a character that might be loosely based on her, or at least the details are very similar. Look up “Ramona’s diary” if you’d like to read more.