Thanks, I spent the whole day reading this awesome blog, thank you so much for posting it!
I loved the articles about their daily life at the Pole, it feels surreal to see an almost regular building with kitchens, showers and other amenities on the South Pole.
I use several sites like ArtStation, Pixiv and aggregators to download new wallpapers for my devices.
This used to be an entertaining experience to see all the kinds of beautiful art people used to create... But as you said it is getting filled by AI crap. I noticed the same thing with Pixiv, even if I opt-out from AI art, new results from several popular tags are filled with badly tagged AI images.
Now the experience feels tiresome, in some categories I waste too much time filtering between real and AI art. I started to search things produced before 2022-2023 to avoid AI.
This "art" should be uploaded to its own subdomain and never get mixed up with real art.
I can use it with a VPN but only if I have an already logged-in session.
Without a logged-in session, I can only see error messages which change randomly. Most of them seem to be either an IP range blocking page or an image with "You broke reddit" message on it.
It started for me some time ago with a “unknown user agent” or something along those lines, now it show a “funny” can we see some id? Message, no reddit i will not disable my VPN to view your everyday-getting-worst content. Good riddance, you’re going the way of “x”.
Same experience here. Also seems that when using `old.reddit.com`, it logs you out a lot sooner than before (or in using `new.reddit.com`. It's just another layer of friction on using it.
Even if they have a "real" picture or a credible description that is not good enough. Instead of using an anime character a malicious actor could use an image generator [0], they could generate a few images, obtain something credible to most folks, and use that to get a few fake identities going. Sadly, trusting people to be the real thing and not a fake identity on the Internet is difficult now and it will get worse.
Seems like AWS did contribute to Redis and has implemented quite a few features [1] and have been partners for quite a while [2]. This could not have any effect for AWS but for other cloud providers instead.
I am also lucky, I got a Suica in 2017 and I used it ever since in every trip to Japan! It seems to last quite a while.
Maybe I should get an electronic Suica on my iPhone just in case though.
After looking around Nagoya's Manaca websites [0] they don't seem to talk about any suspension of card distribution.
JR West ICOCA also seems like is business as usual [1].
Still, it is quite surprising to see an early 00s piece of technology which does not use really advanced chips to have production shortages.
The clocks' problem is also replicated at the European side of the Atlantic. The current situation is terrible but opinions differ between locking the clock at standard time or daylight savings time. The EU tried to step in both 2019 and 2021 but the whole situation is quite stuck [0].
I prefer standard time since in winter using DST would mean dark skies until 9 am. But most people here seem to enjoy how in summer the sun doesn't set until 10 pm. So, whoever touches this topic will end up getting burned by either side and no one dares to change it or suggest it (for now). So the terrible status quo continues.
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