good disclaimer. also, they aren’t open source, and from the tech background of the founder who self-funded it i doubt that he plans for it to ever be. in fact, among other cringe things on Issam Hijazi’s linkedin i see that he’s even worked for, enough to become an expert in the proprietary technology of, (checks notes) the very same zionist billionaire (paywall bypass) who just bought TikTok 😢

Also, one their FAQs is “Where does UpScrolled operate its servers and store data? Does it use Big Tech?”… the answer to which includes:

We do rely on some large-scale cloud providers at this stage — not because it’s our ideal, but because building fully independent infrastructure takes time. We’d rather be transparent about that than claim otherwise. Over time, we plan to reduce reliance on these providers and move toward greater independence.

… but We do rely on some is as far as their attempt at transparency took them - they aren’t actually saying which cloud providers they’re using or for what. (given the founder’s expertise i’d guess it’s probably AWS and/or Oracle.)

Does anything provide a similar experience to Arch’s amazing AUR

I am not aware of any software distribution service with a comparable experience (massive userbase with zero vetting for uploaders) as Arch’s amazing AUR - if you are looking for a way to distribute malware to many unsuspecting people (who’s friends think they’re hackerman), it’s really unparalleled. (😢)

To your primary question, yes, many people do successfully daily drive various Linux distros without ever opening the terminal. 🙄

unsurprisingly this has been [flagged] and deleted from the orange site.

that just sounds like they’re accelerating towards the dystopia, things will get a lot worse before OpenAI collapses

i agree on both points. but do you think it would be better if their existence is prolonged somehow?

i mean, if you don’t think this development is good news, what sort of news about openai would you think is?

unless you’re actually using their services, i don’t see how them doing the thing they said they’d only do as a “last resort” is anything other than good news. (and if you are using their services, maybe the ads will encourage you to stop? so, still: good news)

yeah, them doing what they said in 2024 that they would only do as a last resort is indeed good news

maybe this helps? (via a comment in my previous post of this meme)

the fact that they know your plate number is different than knowing if you (or someone) queried a website about which police queried flock about it

reposting my comment from the thread yesterday:

reposting my comment in a thread last month about this:

in b4 haveibeenhaveibeenflocked.

they have a list of their current collection of 239 .csv files but sadly don’t appear to let you actually download them to query offline

they now have 519 sources, some of which are downloadable from muckrock but many aren’t.

i still don’t understand why this website isn’t open source and open data, and i strongly recommend thinking carefully about it (eg, thinking about if you’d mind if the existence of your query becomes known to police and/or the public) before deciding if you want to type a given plate number in to it.

numerous professions are far more dangerous than being a cop. there are well over 700k cops in the US and only around 150 die each year (except during the pandemic when covid killed an extra thousand or so).

It’s not loading for me.

the site is probably overloaded right now due to being in the news today because a whistleblower just gave them details about 4500 more agents: https://web.archive.org/web/20260113174554/https://www.thedailybeast.com/personal-details-of-thousands-of-border-patrol-and-ice-goons-allegedly-leaked-in-huge-data-breach/

paywall bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20260113155013/https://www.404media.co/police-unmask-millions-of-surveillance-targets-because-of-flock-redaction-error/

also, reposting my comment in a thread last month about this:

in b4 haveibeenhaveibeenflocked.

they have a list of their current collection of 239 .csv files but sadly don’t appear to let you actually download them to query offline

they now have 519 sources, some of which are downloadable from muckrock but many aren’t.

i still don’t understand why this website isn’t open source and open data, and i strongly recommend thinking carefully about it (eg, thinking about if you’d mind if the existence of your query becomes known to police and/or the public) before deciding if you want to type a given plate number in to it.

paywall bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20260113174554/https://www.thedailybeast.com/personal-details-of-thousands-of-border-patrol-and-ice-goons-allegedly-leaked-in-huge-data-breach/

It’s a website.

Wow. Although I do still think it is written with some LLM assistance, and I don’t think the authors sincerely believe the absurd alt-history they’re espousing in this article, I am sad to say I think your assessment here is actually spot-on.

I got a slop vibe after reading just a little of it, and then clicked away and skimmed their other article titles (“Based International Law”, “The GIGACHAD Approach”, “Shitposting as a National Asset”, etc). then clicked to the homepage and saw their “Generated Affairs” (thisforeignaffairsarticledoesnotexist.com) LLM thing under Special Projects, and I naively concluded that the whole thing was merely an edgelord trolling project.

Looking at it a little closer now (and seeing that their other link under Special Projects https://rickovercorpus.org/ is actually a serious thing which links back and thanks them for funding) I am also horrified.

I still think it is an edgelord trolling project, but it is one with a likelihood to be seriously influencing actually-powerful people 😱

This is what the radical far right wing of the US establishment is thinking

No, it isn’t. They are thinking and doing plenty of horrible things, but not what is on that website.

i didn’t read very much of it because i don’t suffer LLM outputs gladly, but to their credit at least the edgelords who created it were nice enough to put a troll face at the bottom to remove any doubts one might have about its lack of sincerity 🙄

Check their twitter and other projects if you still aren’t sure, but after you realize what it is I hope you’ll delete this post to stop spreading their slop.

1. the person saying that isn’t from lemmy.ml
2. i left their comment alone because it’s funny, while yours wasn’t. (i think maybe they’re doing a bit? check the url they provided. but their comment is funny whether they meant it to be or not.)