This is brilliant! Think of the possibilities.

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
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Ask HN: AI bots everywhere – does anyone have a good whitelist for robots.txt?
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It literally pays to save those old Firmwares offline. Always Archive.

Google Pixel 4a old firmware is gone, trapping users on the buggy battery update
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Define Irony ..

Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history
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I have no words here... They fail me...

https://www.makeuseof.com/cancel-culture-insurance-policy-protects-celebrities/

The 5 reasons do check out. Ubuntu is old reliable for beginners but if you haven't seen everything other distros offer. The best part of Linux is true freedom of choice.

https://www.howtogeek.com/why-i-stopped-using-ubuntu/

You know our policy on Chrome extensions is DON'T. Anything that can remove AI junk out your way could be good if it was available for Librewolf instead.

https://www.makeuseof.com/pre-ai-chrome-extension-search-web-without-ai-content/

👍 We agree.

https://www.xda-developers.com/features-windows-needs-steal-from-linux/

Ever since I have been on Brave, this kind of thing doesn't happen to me as the shields usually catch this. Still if you have this problem a change in search habits can mitigate this problem.

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-edge-scareware-blocker/

Where do we hear lines of BS that state they are for your own good? It's not that Linux doesn't do this they do, such as x11 being soon deprecated in GTK 5 (GNOME). On Linux that software isn't usually gone, but you may have to take extra steps to keep using it. That is until the demand is gone and it is no longer updated.

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-deprecating-windows-features-good-thing/

On the subject of "Digital Archiving"

I used to do that early-on - but I have been around since 5 1/4" Floppy drives - then 3 1/2" - then CR-R - then iOmega Zip - then Orbit - then DVD-R then various memory formats and external drive interfaces (Firewire, etc...)

I finally just decided that eventually, the thing I am storing data on may not be accessible by the thing I may or may not have available to read the archive from.

Even this could be mitigated by using the most basic Android tablets and long term storing in Mylar, etc... But I have even found THOSE devices that were justva few years old in the move to the new house - that are now dead dead dead - Could I rip them apart and maybe clip the correct power to the battery leads? maybe?

Another trooperisim: Books define wealth. The more books in your library - meaningful books, not Harlequin romance novels - but real books - the wealthier one is. I regret getting rid of books I had no room to keep. I regret their exile to boxes in the garage, to suffering lingering torment from silverfish and moisture, before their inevitable condemnation to a donation bin in exchange for a paltry tax deduction.

The few surviving artifacts of historical antiquity tell us that messages pressed, chiseled, or etched into durable materials are vastly superior to papyrus/paper, paint, or cloth.

Old films, negatives, even photographs have self-destructed due to chemical composition, age, storage...

Digital archives of any form or format are much less likely to survive any test of time far beyond the next few generations.

That said, if one were trying to just store the entire digitized Library of Congress, or even exabytes of general information in some archive - I think those archives would indeed serve the purpose of safeguarding our intellectual heritage, and likely serve as essential troves of information "in the immediate post-event need" - but a considerable amount of planning and contingency architecture would be needed to fully realize such a library of posterity.

https://t.me/trooper_chat/49859