I wonder if this have anything to do with moving quickly from “we must all limit our energy consumption” to “we must burn as much energy possible for no real purpose”.

I guess we’ll never know /s

A terrible idea that will hinder everyone and not serve it’s original purpose in a flash.

• anything that parse the page is broken, this includes screen reader, but also indexing, searching, and people that replace fonts locally for accessibility or other reasons
• the “solution” for accessibility is pure trash
• it can be trivially detected and reversed. I suspect LLM would be incredibly better at adapting to this than anything done manually too

It’s basically a kid playing with “encrypshun” client-side, giving both the cipher and the key to the client and hoping it’ll work. Or, as other put it, DRM that don’t work for any of its original purpose, but create an additional layer of complexity and missing features, a common trend in modern projects.

Unfortunately, most people don’t care

There are laws about accessibility, at least for public websites, and probably for larger websites as they have such a large audience that disability can’t be ignored (as much).

AI scrappers will just pretend to be screen readers then

There’s a fair chance they’re already doing that. It provides better insight on the content, less formatting to handle, and even visual stuff gets text alternatives.

screen reader, SEO, indexation, in page search, etc.

Basically, it breaks everything except people… unless they block/substitute fonts for accessibility reasons, in which case fuck people too.

This is a terrible idea, and it won’t even achieve it’s original “purpose” as it is trivially detectable. Only negatives in this.

You’re posting on internet, with the amount of csam there? Disgusting.

Jokes on them, I’m only there for the porn.

That title is misleading. Maybe people didn’t notice that way Secure Boot was broken. But people certainly knows many other ways secure boot is broken.

Is that a new fringe edge compute mixture of experts from Antro-GPTx? Sounds gemini-flipiti-rad!

I hope this is sarcasm >_<

Look, if you know a way to convert a PDF to text with less than 500GB of VRAM and 2000W of power used for twenty seconds, I’m all ears.

I was gonna comment something about Linux distro also having a machine ID, but then I remembered that it’s not in a big database, and it’s so well enforced I routinely have multiple machines with the same ID pop up :D

If it was registered, probably. They use a mixture of that to allow re-enabling the same license on the same hardware.

Search engine going downhill is mostly a side effect of AI enshitification getting in the way. Even google, which people keep saying is “dying”, works as well as before as long as you’re not using their default page which is filled with AI garbage and other automated content.

Also, Large AI models from large provider doing a fair bit of actually useful work would have to be confronted with other way to do said work. People burning tokens to edit PDF isn’t exactly that efficient compared to opening a god dawn editor.

Tiny violin company in shambles again, have a hard time facing demands.

There is a difference between using X amount of resource to provide an actual output that justify spending X amount of resource, and using X*1000 resources to provide zilch.

“Oh no, informing people allows them to decide for themselves, we can’t have that! I, sweeney whiney, must protect the world from informed decisions!”

• Tim Sweeney, wearing is burger king cardboard crown screaming in front of his mirror alone.

It’s really gone downhill. Like, in free fall.

Because the greed of corporations knows no limit. They sold you the (expensive) hardware, now they want to sell you the (specific, usually compatible but not really, and slightly buggy implementation) software. Can’t do that with open specifications.

Eh, that’s actually crafty :D