Proposing a fix is better than no fix? I didn’t know it was possible, and now I’m looking into it.

Changing the default is a social issue, so of course it’s more difficult than changing one’s current setting.

That toothpick really brings out the extremely precise beard!

Positive!

They aren’t using git as a database, they’re using it as revision history. The database is whatever they decide to store in git. For crates.io, for example, they use JSON files in directories.

If you put an sqlite database in git, you are wouldn’t say “git is the database”, and that’s true here too.

That said, yeah, you shouldn’t roll your own database. Take your source code (JSON from crates.io) from git, and compile it into an sqlite file (for example) for download.

I mean… yeah?

You’d get laughed off of FurAffinity if you expect to pay after completion.

🤤

Sauce can be tasty.

Yeah, exactly. A regular user isn’t going to notice an extra few cents on their electricity bill (boiling water costs more), but a data centre certainly will when you scale up.

Scarcity is what powers this type of challenge: you have to prove you spent a certain amount of electricity in exchange for access to the site, and because electricity isn’t free, this imposes a dollar cost on bots.

You could skip the detour through hashes/electricity and do something with a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency, and just pay for access. The site owner actually gets compensated instead of burning dead dinosaurs.

Obviously there are practical roadblocks to this today that a JavaScript proof-of-work challenge doesn’t face, but longer term…

Should also take a look at https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/voice_remote_local_assistant/

The images that have traversed my wire span the entirety of sensation, from the darkest pits of depravity to the… Wait, no, that’s it.

I think a large part of that is enshittification and not necessarily because of AI (though AI certainly doesn’t help…)

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ is a decent read.

Finally, it’s Gentoo’s time to shine!

Right? That’s the thing. Car thieves don’t care if the tool is illegal; they’re already planning on stealing a car.

If you make the tool illegal, you’re just making it harder for security experts who do care about the law.