To make the metaphor accurate, instead of Narcan the doctor would be recommending a new novelty drug whose results are untested in the human body, and for which no antidote is known.

You can turn on a setting in about:config that will add an option to connect to a locally hosted LLM model, typically running in your GPU with something like Ollama, LM Studio or Anything LLM.

I would like that such option was displayed as prominent as those connecting to commercial services, but at least it's there for those in the know.

Even though it whitelists the IA crawlers by default?

Companies treated workers well, and Western governments provided a welfare state, because of the menace of the Soviet Union looking as a more attractive option to workers.

Once the Soviet Union imploded ending the Cold War, there were no menace anymore and the ruling class returned to their previous mode of operation, dialling the clock back to the XIX century with it's Dickensian Laissez-faire.

It's only logical that when we go back to the conditions that motivated Socialism, workers bring back the same old techniques of class warfare. Welcome to the New World Order, same as the Old.

Anubis has worked well for us to get rid of most of the scrapers from our wiki, including the ones faking regular user agents.

It's not just data centres, many of the requests from regular broadband IP addresses. I think they're using "services" of bottom feeders like Scraper API, or buying from the authors of malicious web browser extensions.

It doesn't matter where the wealth comes from; in other countries it comes from the entrepreneurship and hard labor from its workers.
The trick is then to distribute the products of that wealth among all the people, instead of concentrating more than half of it on the hands of a very small privileged class that then gets to decide how it's spent.

Be careful, you may be up to discover the European way of thinking where "productivity" and "net worth" and "concentrating all the political power in a few lobbies that control the government"* are not synonyms with economic health but rather "safety net" and "well-being" do.

*We tried the last one in the times of the Roman Empire and decided that it's not a good model to live with.

can we name it 'Actual Pluto'?

And they'd do well, because the Ptolemaic guys were better than anyone else in predicting the movements of planets.

And by keeping with the good work, their successors were able to keep compiling and refining good observations, and ultimately be able to overcome the previous model that have served them well.

The point is not to have "The Absolute Truth" at any one particular point (only religious nutjobs do that), the point is to have a reasonable corpus of observations that get cross-checked with reality so that you do not get blinded by dogma.

Not to mention the fanaticism effect of being born and raised all your life with a "purpose larger than you".

There would be a few sceptics that curse their ancestors for condemning them to a life enclosed in a tin can, but my guess is for most of them to live like a small community of religious pilgrim settlers.

More likely 2026, when Valve releases Steam OS for desktop PCs.

By that logic, a map cannot be 2D because it will always have the width of the material it's printed on. The mere concept of 2D would be meaningless for anything but abstract mathematical objects.

However that's not how we use words and meanings in language. If you build a computer on a layer of material where the width is not relevant - because by design it's impossible to build it any thinner, for all practical purposes it's correct to call it a 2D material, and it's pedantry to point out that any physical object necessarily has at least 3 spatial dimensions.

AI scrapers use these residential proxies. It's not (just) VPNs and Tor routing. Several bottom-feeding companies openly advertise such scraping services, for pretty much any country you may want. I administer a wiki that's been on the receiving end of such scraping, and the majority of these scraping requests are in fact coming from residential IP-addresses rather than data centers.

I don't know whether these are hacked accounts, people getting tricked or paid to run these scraping apps on their devices, but it's impossible to block them all. Even if you let fail2ban block entire /24s for every detected hit (even disregarding the collateral damage and the fact that these blocks don't solve the issue, the fail2ban and iptables overhead starts to outweigh the apache load at some point).

Anubis seems to be taking care of it for now, but it's obviously only a matter of time before they can deal with that one too. Although its delay does enable fail2ban rules to block the IP-addresses before they get to stress the mediawiki php scripts, attempting to diff 2 revisions of a random page from 10 years ago.

I can, can't you?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.177...