Even so, the problem won't disappear. There will be legal dispute about what is an ad and what is not.

If I share something on my blog, is it an ad?

The author clearly depicts traditional ads.

Eval scoped into a function has a default global scope: wtf.

and a lot of things

USA fuck yeah

Seit heute morgen sind ein Dutzend in Deutschland illegaler Casinos ohne Casino-Plattform und somit offline. Denn "the mill adventures" hat die illegale Instanz seiner Casino-Software abgeschaltet.

Wir können daraus lernen:

• Recherchen zu illegalen Casinos wirken.
• Wir können Casinos ihre Plattformen nehmen, was im Gegensatz zu den von der GGL geforderten Netzsperren, auch tatsächlich funktioniert.
• Ich bin den Betreibern der Casinos sehr nahe gekommen.

About Hayao Miyazaki to OpenAI allowing to generate image with the style of the studio Gibli.

Tante draws the following conclusion:

For the longest time OpenAI’s systems would try to block people from generating images in the style of certain artists. This was obviously for copyright reasons, the didn’t want to get sued (even more than they already are). Which is something they just changed very explicitly. You can now easily generate stuff in the style of Studio Ghibli and Sam Altman made his avatar on X-The Nazi Network a ghiblified version of himself.

This means OpenAI has to make more and more announcements so they look to the investors like they’re still cool and interesting. Any old garbage will do, like a literary fiction writer bot or something.

• https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/17/openai-brings-you-statistically-average-literary-fiction/

We can reach the limit with AI though:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/27/sam-altmans-studio-ghibli-memes-are-another-distraction-from-openais-money-troubles/

Brandolini's Law in picutre

Making the claim

I read that vaccine rewrite your DNA.
5 seconds. 0 source.

Debunking the claim

Okay... let's talk about transcription, translation, cell nuci....
6 hours. 15 citations.

Debunking take hours. Misinformation take seconds. Think before your share.

De même, la CJUE confirme mon interprétation du considérant 129 du RGPD. Une Autorité de Contrôle doit minimiser les efforts administratifs pesant sur les personnes concernées.

La CNIL et le Conseil d’État contreviennent donc aussi au RGPD en permettant à la CNIL de ne traiter qu’une partie du dossier et en reportant le reste et la vérification de la conformité à une éventuelle nouvelle plainte.

Screenshot: https://s3.imirhil.fr/firefish//fee5f857-a267-42c6-937a-5c78bf0d1bf9.webp

What is the opposite of "vibe coding"?

It could be someone who does everything like a professional who is never needed. "Overkill coding"?

"The Jedi use the cascade for knowledge and defense, never for attack."

...

"But only the Sith deal in absolutes!"

Pour les personnes qui veulent savoir combien de mémoire consomme un serveur XMPP avec 2 virtualhosts, 11 utilisateur·ices et 13 salons, la réponse est : ~ 165 MB de RAM

Encore moins gourmand, ce sont les serveurs IRC (cf: https://pleroma.lord.re/objects/4748377b-6551-4319-b2b3-95f714cb649e)

Bad #UI
experience: I was trying to send a friend some money via #CashApp
, but could not verify my identity. Here’s what their tech support found out:

“...from the documentation you have provided, we see that you have a legal one letter name. While we understand that is the name chosen and legally granted, we regret to inform you that we cannot proceed with the request at this time.”

I sent a response thanking them for figuring out the problem, and I wouldn’t try to get verified -- or use CashApp -- again.

I also sent them the URL for “Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Names”

It was so simple, anyone who wanted to could create a free account [on Geocities, Tripod, FortuneCities, or Freeservers and build a website to share their hobbies and ideas.

The web was more about browsing and exploration.

It is worth remembering a website [...] can also be art. The web is also a creative and cultural space that [can be Free from convention defined by commercial product design and marketing].

If the commercial web is "industrial", you could say that the small web is "artisanal". One is not better than the other. They serve different needs and both can co-exist in an open web.

There is a lot of old good website, internet archive links and examples

To quote https://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/nov/30/oldweb-today/

Today's web browsers want to be invisible, merging with the visual environment of the desktop in an effort to convince users to treat "the cloud" as just an extension of their hard drive. In the 1990s, browser design took nearly the opposite approach, using iconography associated with travel to convey the feeling of going on a journey.

The web was "browsed", discovered by neighborhoods or [webrings], a circular collections of websites around a topic or a theme. To get orders and efficiency, one shared web directories such as the DMOZ open-directory project. One would simply go to a website and discover others on a page such as Retro Stuff

There are today gatekeepers keeping the attention only on some platforms: Facebook, LinkedIn. I would add TikTok now.

The commercial web emerged by the 2000s. Today's web is mostly commercial now. They invented words like "native advertising" and "sponsored content". They brought a completely different set of priorities: engage their audience, convert them and retain them for as long as possible.

Then came the product-oriented website and its sanitisation: it is polished, follows conventions and is optimised for efficiency. Modern websites are designed to direct user behavior towards certain goals: a purchase, a click, a share or a sign-up.

But the web remains and is also a creative space. the web is really a lot simpler than that. You really only need two things: a web host and HTML (and basic CSS for formatting).

If the commercial web is "industrial", you could say that the small web is "artisanal". One is not better than the other. They serve different needs and both can co-exist in an open web.

There are ways to discover it. Here some highlights from the past:

• Internet Archive, which, thanks to the 439 billion web pages saved since the mid 90s, lets you travel back in time and see how a website looked in the past.
• Restorativland, a "restored visual gallery of the archived Geocities sites, sorted by neighborhood".

and other highlights from the present:

• the search engine Wiby.me: for old-school, interesting and informative webpages, with a useful "surprise me" button that takes you to a random result.
• the Neocities.org is a modern web host that lets anyone create a basic website for free and be a part of a community where you can follow other webmasters.
• Curlie is "the largest human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a passionate, global community of volunteer editors".

Some websites presented:

A fan-made site from 1998 about comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Norville Hardy. Why? The siteinfo states "Why not!!!" - https://geocities.restorativland.org/Hollywood/Studio/5352/index.html

A student built the website Fractal Explorer to explore fractals. It includes very clear explanations, image galleries and step-by-step guided tours - https://web.archive.org/web/20020223163039fw_/http://www.geocities.com/fabioc/

The National Coca-Cola Bottle Clearing House lists all bootles since the 70s

NetHistory an informal history of BITNET (before internet) and the Internet - https://web.archive.org/web/20010516205238/http://nethistory.dumbentia.com/

Joan stark's ASCII Art Gallery - https://web.archive.org/web/20010420182629/http://www.geocities.com/spunk1111/indexjava.htm

European butterflies since 1998. Some pages such as Agrodiaetus ainsae have more informations than the dedicated wikipedia page.

The webtender since 1995, features over 6000 recipes, a handbook with information on bar glassware, tools, measurements and ingredients, a forum, a wiki and even lets you search for recipes based on what you have in your bar - https://www.webtender.com/info/

Disstant Skies is a fansite about the RPG game Crystalis - https://distantskies.neocities.org/

and you can build your own presence on the web!
Neocities.org allow to make a file and publish it with a free account. Spending hours browsing the websites made by passionates

There is also bear.blog dedicated for blogs.

The discussion follows on HackerNews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326329

Names are changing and diverse. They are so different that a validator for them seems irrelevant.

What do they have in common?

• read the reference. It's official documentation.
• they know your tools really well.
• read the error message: Really Read the Error Message and Try to Understand What’s Written. [...] The best engineers can infer a ton of information from very little context. Just by reading the error message, you can fix most of the problems on your own.
• break down problems
• are not afraid to get their hands dirty: they read a lot of code and they are not afraid to touch it. They never say “that’s not for me” or “I can’t help you here.” Instead, they just start and learn.
• always help others: great engineers are in high demand and are always busy, but they always try to help.
• write
• keep learning constantly: Part of the reason is that they keep learning. Somewhat related, the best engineers don’t follow trends, but they will always carefully evaluate the benefits of new technology.
• Don't care about status
• have a reptation
• have patience
• never blame the computer
• don't be afraid to say "I don't know"
• avoid guessing: ask questions, read the reference, use a debugger, be thorough.
• KISS
• Final Thoughts

:where() apply styles with 0 specificity. It's a great way to provide defaults to css classes.

Another modern solution is to use @layer.

A collection of composable, unstyled UI primitives for building accessible web applications.