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Well, there goes the AI evangelist claim of “democratizing” literally anything. Instead, it gives increasingly BS answers based on your social status already.

Everybody brace yourselves for the cope, which will probably be a class-based version of “you’re prompting it wrong” or somesuch trash.

The Wayback machine is good, but it has limitations archive.today subverted. That’s why people are looking for alternatives specifically to the latter

The title is a bit misleading. The issue here is data scrapers, period. They aren’t being deployed by an AI, and the bots don’t have any AI algorithms in them. It’s stuff deployed by people, using traditional data scraping algorithms.

It’s just the presumed destination of the data being scraped, combined with the fact that the people who run these bots tend to never respect consent

Couldn’t you host it somewhere yourself? I guess there’s a question of trust there, but trust is the reason Wikipedia has decided to stop using archive.today

Can’t hear you over your false accusation of appeal to authority

Understandable. Archive.today is really good at getting website content, but their methods are proprietary and a little dubious.

If you just want to save things locally, I believe Single File is really good. It downloads the page that you see on your browser, as you see it.

Plenty of stupid rich Bay Area tech bros have thrown money into their AI agents, and they have discovered the AI agents overspend that money.

If you already agree that the contributions could very well be worthless crap, why would you use a second layer of worthless crap to gatekeep them?

If you want to care about people doing the thankless jobs, why would you double the amount of crap they have to sort through?

“We all” = not only consumer products, but literally everything that makes the world tick, and the even more invisible things that make those things tick…

Supposedly, according to the Microsoft article, AI PCs CoPilot+ PCs are capable of translating stuff on the fly (which sounds awesome) and generating images, all locally. Allegedly.

I have yet to run into anybody that’s actually talked about these so-called innovations though. I have a PC with Windows and the beefy GPU and I would love to get live transcriptions. But the (MS) article doesn’t even mention how I would do that…

Even if everything Microsoft promise was true, though, the lines sure are intentionally blurred between what runs locally and what doesn’t.

Wow the Microsoft article really is a mess. I honed in on a promise made about “AI PCs” and was initially interested in a promise to do local translation (perhaps of un-subtitled foreign films or news?)

AI PCs are powered by a turbocharged neural processing unit (NPU) [that] performs more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS)… This matters because:

• AI tasks, like real-time translation, image generation, and intelligent search, run locally instead of requiring the cloud
• Responses feel faster and smoother
• Your battery lasts longer

(Responses are “faster and smoother” and the battery lasts “longer”… compared to what? Surely those magical cloud AI solutions can go faster and offload AI processing, something Microsoft seems to be jockeying for anyway.)

Never mind that technicality. I want local translation. And my PC can do an AI, I thought, until I realized the definition of “AI PCs” is mixed with a more exclusionary selection of CoPilot+ PCs:

Some of the tools listed, including Recall and Live Captions with Translations, are only available on Copilot+ PCs with an NPU capable of 40 TOPS performance (or better).

GhostArchive came up in discussions.

From Wikipedia

As of 13:27, 19 February 2026 (UTC), the owners are now batch-replacing certain names in archived pages with the real name of the gyrovague.com webmaster as a form of harassment.

The top piece of evidence (not in any special order) was redacted due to “revealing personal information”.

Other subsequent pieces of evidence were retained but names were replaced with abbreviations

I have another evidence of tampering: this is a Megalodon archive of a archive.ph archive of a post. The original post is now dead. Patokallio mentions this post in his blog – he would surely mention if the post mentioned him, in the way the archived version does. He quoted the original [N.P.] was a woman[…], while the archive.ph reads Jani Patokallio was a woman[…]

Another example:

Sometime today, Archive.today replaced the name with the equivalent amount of spaces (only where N…'s name used to be). Ironically, “Jani Patokallio” is of the same length as “N…”.

“If the truth isn’t enough, then I don’t want it.”

Pesky German dissidents sabotage military equipment, 1944.

You can’t accuse me of appealing to authority if there was no authority. You either stupidly or maliciously lied. Time to admit it, even consider apologizing and not being a hypocrite for even a moment.

normal priced hard drive pls

O wise LLM, what authority are you accusing me of appealing to

Take a break from being a hypocrite and realize that if the truth isn’t enough, I don’t want it.

Ah the projection

Bro an appeal to authority requires an authority be appealed to, you capable of acknowledging that?

I know it’s not the same company, but that sure is a far cry from:

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said that as much as 30% of the company’s code is now written by artificial intelligence.

Sounds like AI contracts aren’t the only thing getting quietly scaled back.