Or also a genuine human voice reading a script that’s partially or almost entirely LLM written? I think there must be some video content creators who do that.
Do you have any opinion on rote work, for example data entry, or stuff like scanning the incoming checks or mail for a small office, filing papers, etc.? I sometimes worry that this type of work isn't as much of a brain challenge, but maybe there are some people who don't mind it so much because it gives them time to think.
I heard stories about a potential Oracle data breach (I think mainly affecting their customers) being removed from Archive.org too. It’s because in general, they comply with requests to remove stuff, which is understandable from an ethical perspective. But do they at least try to explain the reason for the takedown? Is it just not feasible to do that?
This is no longer true. They changed their policy to ignore robots.txt in 2017. I seem to recall that they still respected robots.txt later, though I can’t find any more information on it and may be misremembering. Currently, they do not.
My main use for archive.is is for sites that somehow cannot be archived (a message will show up mentioning this site cannot be archive or something along these lines).
archive.is is generally pretty good in forcibly attempting to get an archive, if the HTML doesn't work, the screenshot will work fine. Although archive.is doesn't seem to handle gifs/videos.
It is pretty sad that this is happening and that it apparently is at risk of just disappearing soon. I understand there are a lot of ethical concerns with that site, but if I use like the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to try to save some specific documentation pages for certain proprietary software, it absolutely fails to actually save the content. So then it is just a bit more difficult to save a particular knowledge base article before it might get rewritten or updated.
That sounds right. I checked on some listings of books that I thought would be cool to check out, but it still keeps saying how borrow in unavailable except for patrons with print disabilities. For the books I'm interested in, at least we can see scans of the front and back covers, and also a little bit of the table of contents.
Do you have a source? I know there is an index[0] of the information on California birth certificates from 1905 to 1995 and technically, despite the privacy implications, birth records in California are considered "public record".
There is no guarantee that the site would have survived, but abandoning it's original indie artists user base to chase psuedo-piracy $$ was ridiculous.
Counter point is that given its insane valuation, something mass market had to be pursued. Selling 1 off burned CDs for indie artists wasn't ever going to pay the bills.
Still a shitty thing to do to their original user base.
Bandcamp doesn't have the same sort of community structure. It has discoverability now but it isn't really a place that I go to discover new music or explore genres. (Actually after a decade+ of using Bandcamp I just discovered this year that it has genre home pages, I always thought Bandcamp was just a host for artist pages).
For a long time there was a gap in the market. One could argue that Myspace kind of filled that gap for awhile for certain music genres, but it was a small fraction of what mp3.com was in terms of breadth. Of course Myspace spawned multiple main stream hit bands, so arguably the impact was greater. (I'm not aware of any bands that became huge stars based off their mp3.com listens!)
It is funny reading the Wikipedia infra page for MP3.com, now days making something akin to it would be almost trivial, given the scale they were operating at during that time frame.
I'm still salty that ordering a CD from them just got you 128kbit MP3s burned toba disc.
I asked because I've been batting around a project that aims to be this sort of spiritual successor to "a place to buy and sell indie music/merch" in the vein of Bandcamp, that emphasizes maximizing the $ that goes to the artist and minimizes the platform fee (even more than Bandcamp does).
I agree that Bandcamp falls short in some of the social dimensions that it feels like it should do better at. It just feels a bit too corporate/staged.
I'm curious if you have any memories or recollections about what made myspace and mp3.com better for this social aspect... is it just that they happened to be social/p2p-first and music "second"? i.e. that your "feed" wasn't an e-commerce experience but a social experience
To be clear I'm not really setting out to build a social experience initially but it's something I'm definitely curious about exploring!
Discovery on mp3.com was horrible, I basically had to browse a list of artists by poorly defined genres. Back then not as many genre labels existed and tagging wasn't quite a thing so much as now since the #tag syntax hadn't been invented yet.
As a result I spent hours wandering around through the site finding music I liked. I don't have the time to do that anymore, so what made the site wonderful back then (being forced to dig deep) just wouldn't work for me now. :(
Discovery is a pretty interesting problem-space! It's one of those things that I'm looking forward to "earning the right" to solve (by having enough data to begin with, lol).
I like the idea of "people with your listening/purchasing habits also purchase this". Or "people in your geo purchased this", or "here's the music of people performing in your area this weekend".
Spotify/Apple Music/etc. (the "streamers") have a very different incentive model from the Bandcamps of the world, because their income stream is super concentrated on the major labels and heavily tied to plays of that music in particular. So they're biased in favor of that "kind" of music in discovery.
They actually are averse to showing people hyper-niche music, which I think is why discovery is such a tricky problem for them to "solve": their salary depends on them not fully exploring the solution space.
I think moving out of the universe of royalty-based revenue is a huge step in the right direction for somebody trying to solve that problem at scale, even if it's a smaller market.
I recently learned of him because of a service that he seems to be affiliated with. This is a service that seems to search for webinars or meetings and surreptitiously records them. It is an interesting concept, but it has definitely baffled some Zoom users. This is a Reddit thread I saw where it seems to be him who is responding to some of the comments: https://old.reddit.com/r/Zoom/comments/1lpvv06/webinartv_ste...
Is it really that difficult to believe it could be accurate? If we take at face value what has been written about other big tech companies (mainly thinking of Facebook) as they grew their relationship in countries such as the People’s Republic of China, we also see they had to sweeten the deal by giving the government more power over how they could use the services.
I do think it’s kind of a different situation though because apparently the employees of Facebook could have gotten into legal trouble in those other countries they were trying to expand into.
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