In 2025, I tried to access my services using IPv6 with 4G phones and different subscriptions (different ISPs), fact is, many (most?) of them did not support IPv6 at all :(
I had to revert to IPv4. And really I have nothing against IPv6, but yeah, as a simple user, self hosting a bunch of services for friends and family: it was simply just not possible to use only IPv6 :(
(for context, the 4G providers are French, in metropolitan France)
My phone contract that does offer IPv6 is with Free, I could not work out whether it would disable IPv4 if I enabled IPv6 so have not tried changing it.
There is not a single ISP in my area that provides any IPv6 support whatsoever. This is also the case for many, many millions of others around the world.
So you're aware of accountability dilution AND the opacity of LLMs making them not responsible for anything, therefore you agree with the point that was made.
I guess your point could be:
LLMs are just another level of capitalistic opacity to maximize opacity and dilution of accountability.
Because it's actually about adult stuff that happens in the real world, outside of the little bubble of entitled tech-bros with the ambition of a shonen character while having the brain of Disney villain's sidekick
I'm no German speaker, but I'm French, and without invalidating your initial claim (about the AI generated stuff), in France we do translate "good morning" by "Bonjour", which literally means good (bon) day (jour).
Any other translation would be weird:
if you'd translate "good morning" by "Bonne journée" -> that would be super weird, because this is something one could say in France to say "Goodbye" xD
I lived in Germany for a short time back in 2022, and notice that saying "Hallo" is used a little bit everywhere. However I can tell you that you are NOT supposed to say "salut" in France ANYWHERE except with your friends.
Like, imagine, you're in Germany you enter a bakery, you can say "Hallo" -> no problem.
Same situation in France and you say "Salut" -> either people will react badly or assume that you don't know French or maybe they'll think you're impolite for no reasons
Thanks for your input neighbor!
That's interesting because other sources actually start with "Salut", without going into the usage too much. Good to know.
Bonjour for good morning is correct. The problem is that the app introduced it to me like this:
"A in German means Z in French. B in German also means Z in French. Here is the word Z without any context. What's the correct word in German? You can choose between A, B, C and D. B is wrong, I wanted A".
I can imagine that they have direct mappings between the words, without checking for collisions. Even that could be fine, if the frontpage didn't claim this was "curated by experts" and it didn't happen literally in the first lesson haha.
Switching to Cloudflare DNS solves archive.today problems? That's strange. archive.today is known for having problems with Cloudflare DNS[1]. Switching to Google DNS should solve it. (This isn't because of a bug in Cloudflare DNS, but rather that archive.today dislikes that Cloudflare DNS doesn't support EDNS.)
Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on the DNS team.
Archive blocks VPNs. If you're on one, that could be why.
I've also found that archive.ph is significantly less accessible than archive.is despite hosting the same content. Pausing my VPN for a few minutes and then changing the .ph to .is fixed a similar captcha loop for me, though I still did need to solve a captcha for it.
are you using a VPN? that happens often to me. might be a combo of that and ublock origin. I'm guessing archive gets a ton of attacks from VPN so they probably just have rules to captcha any VPN address. I have a local proxy on rpi setup and then a container in firefox that lets me use that to quickly swap to a proxy that uses my real IP. very handy for shit like this.
As with many things in life, see it like stats in an RPG: your 'character' may have "0" in the singing skill INITIALLY. But it's still a skill that you can learn, even if you start low.
However, what is true is that, you will sound like YOU. You can get close or make impressions of artists you like. But ultimately your voice is YOUR instrument and it can gain range, and power, but you'll sound like you.
For instance, I'm well aware that I will never have "Celine Dion's voice". I don't mean her skills, I mean literally her voice.
That's what one of the first AND biggest tough thing to accept when singing: you might never sound exactly like the singers you admire. But it doesn't mean you can't sing or be extremely good at it.
It's like Michael Jackson was sad because he knew he would never be able to sing like Barry White. Does that mean Michael Jackson is not a good singer? Nope.
You can very probably obtain a much different result and most likely more accurate by doing this:
Looking at a few metrics should be enough for you to understand that this article from The Economist is some kind of "everything is going well"-centrist-propaganda.
All of the above are criticizable indices, by themselves. However, if you take the time to superpose those statistical markers, you'll get a much better picture than whatever The Economist is trying to say in this article
Just for info: in France, wearing a gas mask or anything covering your face during a legal and authorized protest is illegal. (law n°2010-1192 of 11 October 2010)
This is my way to say: you can choose to protect yourself, sure.
But laws can be changed, fast and easy. Particularly and actually always, when it serves the people in power and the system globally.
In 2025, I tried to access my services using IPv6 with 4G phones and different subscriptions (different ISPs), fact is, many (most?) of them did not support IPv6 at all :(
I had to revert to IPv4. And really I have nothing against IPv6, but yeah, as a simple user, self hosting a bunch of services for friends and family: it was simply just not possible to use only IPv6 :(
(for context, the 4G providers are French, in metropolitan France)