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Thats a good point. Things do go down forever and its nice to have backups to preserve history. Though in this case it seems a bit premature because OTW and AO3 are just down afaik, not like, gone gone.

It seems like this person wanted to help with AO3 being down in their own way, but somehow decided that scraping the internet for fanworks and hosting them on a new site without asking permission from any of the creators was a good idea.

It seems similar to those people who will dump a 40k LoC Pull Request on an open source project that they vibe coded. Wanting to help, but misunderstanding every step, or like, how to interact with an established group. The article does say that the guy who made the vibe coded site is 17, so I don’t wanna be too hard on him, but maybe he should have reached out to OTW to see if there was anything he could do to help first.

[the website creator] scraped the internet for works to populate the site using “a swarm of AI Agents controlling 40 virtual machines were scraping the internet for all drives, scrapes, and sources,”

Also this kind of stuff is wild because a lot of websites aren’t really built to handle the insane traffic from bot crawlers.

thats about how much money Meta spent on trying to make the Metaverse work over a 4ish year period. Thats an insane amount of money for one company to spend in half a year. Like a mind-boggling amount of money. Even if you’ve made $16B in the same time frame, you’re still 5 times deeper in the hole

they’ve really gotta stop offering avocado toast at the company cafeteria. That’ll make up the difference.

$300 might be all of the actual liquid cash they had lying around. Or they just asked their employees to consider pitching in 5 bucks each

Go to Arch Store

Point of sales computers all run Windows

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End game? No one thinks further than 2 financial quarters into the future anymore.

handing your little brother a game controller thats not plugged in so he’ll stop bothering you while playing Zelda type energy

Building a PC in 2026 be like “I cant afford RAM, but I can use a whole TB hard disk I shucked from an old WD external as swap and maybe my PC will feel modern”

wild that this has basically become “you guys need to take some personal responsibility and use AI in a way that is useful and makes us a return on our insane investment”

Oh man thats sad. I’ve been in one of her mirror rooms and they’re really trippy.

that is absolute magic omg

It should work, but its kinda one of those things where you won’t know until you try. As long as the Ethernet adapter is using an Intel or Realtek chipset, you shouldn’t have any issues driver-wise

yeah i remember that on my Pearl too lol

That… was originally a Blackberry feature, right?

this is how Valve offsets the Steam sale discounts. They’re a RC car company that also happens to sell video games to get you in the door.

now I need 2 steam controllers. One to drive around, and one to control the one driving around

I’ve never had good luck with any of Sabrent’s USB drive enclosures lasting that long. The last one I had also stopped showing up and made the disk make weird clicking noises after a few months of just sitting there. When I took the disk out of it and plugged it into a computer via SATA directly, the drive was perfectly fine and had no SMART errors

if a creeper blows up and kills me while using it, does it crash all my running programs?

when you’re competing in the asshole olympics, there’s no winners