As a dev I would try negative value in the custom field.

The thing is, some people like proton. Or liked, if this keeps going. When you build a business on trust and you start flailing like a headless chicken, people gets wary.

It’s already permanent and nonstop. They’re known to ignore robots.txt, and remove user agent on detection.

And the goal is not only to prevent resource abuse, but break a predatory model.

But, feel free to continue gracefully doing nothing while other takes action, it’s bound to help eventually.

The good news is that this may cure my laziness. I’ve been preparing to leave most of google service for a while now.

The situation is embarrassing enough. No need to bring shame to the ambassador that most likely heard about it from some news outlet too.

it suffers from the same enshittification problems that have killed Twitter, Reddit, BoingBoing, Digg, Slashdot

I’ll easily agree that these platforms are bad, but saying anything “killed” them is very, VERY generous. Reddit and slashdot are very much still a thing, and they don’t look like they’re slowing down, despite the supposedly insurmountable issues. Keep in mind that the goal of a “social network” (for lack of a better word) is having an audience. Reddit literally shat on its user base, AND on the people that kept the site usable, and communities are still thriving there.

Because there hasn’t been much billionaire behind bluesky for a long time now, and “spinning up a mastodon instance” is the exact reason the general people are avoiding mastodon in the first place.

The goal is to reach people, not to promote a pure solution that’s repulsive to the masses.

People go to the platform that’s easy, attractive and works, instead of the very beautiful, finely crafted, exquisite solution that requires days of reading followed by fiddling every other day to barely get the same immediate result, assorted with hidden surprises like hidden moderation and silent failure situation that leads to fragmentation of the whole network. What a surprise.

Also, “don’t get pedantic with me” does not sit well with the current goals of bluesky. Sure, right now, they focused on making something that works and is usable by everyone. Whoop fucking doo, that’s exactly what mastodon/lemmy/most activitypub services skipped. And that’s why the general public look at them with contempt. I can’t see the future (maybe you can, lucky you), but for now, bluesky works, and the plan they’re still following up to now is aimed toward a decentralized solution.

Add to this that some media are “baffled at what it could mean”…

Every phone out there that can be heard by people 100m away is the indication of a garbage person, that’s not linked to a brand or a specific group.

Seriously, fuck you.

In an interesting plot twist, it would actually be a net positive for said Tesla brand in the long run, too.

I’m sure if you asked an Afghan man how many people live in his home, he’d include women and children in his answer.

I’m not so sure. I have zero basis to think it’s one way or another, but given all the oniony-but-actually-pure-facts headlines of these recent… months? I’m definitely not certain of it.

Video decoding is resource intensive. We’re used to it, we have hardware acceleration for some of it, but spewing something around 52 million pixels every second from a highly compressed data source is not cheap. I’m not sure how both compare, but small LLM models are not that costly to run if you don’t factor their creation in.

It’s unlikely to even replace good subtitles, fan or not. It’s just a nice thing to have for a lot of content though.