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One solution could be to use Kiwi Browser, can be installed from the Play Store and lets you use arbitrary Chrome extensions without hassle, I tested it and it can install BPC

certain stories are very expensive to research and cover

Well a majority of the ones I see seem to rather be lazy garbage editorializing a single quote or study that would be more informative presented by itself.

As many things in life, you get what you pay for.

What I want is to talk about things with people who have also read the relevant context, news site paywall subscriptions prevent that even if you pay because everybody else will have only read the headline. Or they would, if they weren't so easy to pirate.

Why is that the problem of online discussion spaces? News sites can paywall their content, but that doesn't mean anyone else has to allow paywalled links.

Before I had the internet at home, I would use the school library to print out walkthroughs to videogames (at that time zelda.com was not about the nintendo game). I spent several weeks downloading a 100 megabyte demo of a star wars racing game, because at my download speeds it took 18 hours, but normally the connection would drop midway through and there was no way to resume the download without restarting it, so the only thing to do was keep trying and hope to get lucky.

The main rule I try to adhere to:

If I think someone who responded to my comment did not read the whole thing, I should not reply.

Well one reason is probably that signing your article content to help it be verified when it is repackaged elsewhere is kind of the opposite of what news sources are trying to do with their paywalls.

imo it conflicts too much with freedom of information. In general, if I know something then I shouldn't be barred from continuing to know it and expressing it, even if that knowledge involves someone who would rather I couldn't. There can be exceptions in extreme situations, but things like a "right to be forgotten" and "copyright" very broadly violate freedom of information.

I'm skeptical the market is ever going to have principles, for every person that has gotten burned and become personally aware of shady practices, there are many more that aren't aware and don't have the incentive or ability to do research to find out. Seems like the sort of thing where the system is rigged in favor of scammers if consumer choice is the only regulation.

I think people don't even realize the scale of the removals, because when it isn't banning you the platform goes out of its way to hide it from you when your comments are removed, it looks like it is still there while you are logged in but no one else can see it, I only even find out by using the reveddit extension, and I've been banned from subreddits just for mentioning that there's a way to do this. It's usually a totally innocuous comment that gets removed, assuming they just have a keyword that triggered a bot or a mod just didn't like what I said and clicked delete. What they're doing can hardly be termed 'moderation' anymore.

My reason for cutting red meat out of my diet was that it's expensive, glad there's other reasons it's a good choice too

(if your id is stolen and you arduously go about getting a new one)

I thought I had lost mine once and got a new SSN card, they don't give you a new number, it's the same number

I think it probably is somewhat less than legal to advise people to break the law, but I like saying everyone should pirate everything so fuck it, they aren't going to waste their time prosecuting me for that

They declared it was worth something like 5 old currency and you had to personally turn in old money to get new money

Then it's not just backed by their declaration

The problem here is that a government does not in fact have the ability to decide how much their currency is valued, they can only indirectly influence it. When they try to pretend like it's just a "rule" they can set like "here is the mandated exchange rate, we'll put you in jail if you make trades at any other price" is when things get real stupid.

At least some local alternatives sort of like that do exist, eg. https://www.noshdelivery.co/about_us. But yeah, there is the issue of managing it and overhead since I guess probably part of what they do is vetting and dispute resolution, so it might be hard for it to be more decentralized. Maybe eventual convergence on shared tools and protocols though?

What is standing in the way of an open alternative to these services? Both customers and workers getting a terrible deal, you'd think anyone would switch to something else at the first opportunity

Every time I try to convert a PDF to epub or something, or OCR one that doesn't actually have selectable text, it turns out shit. I assume the real reason people would want to get LLMs involved is that there is actually a lot of ambiguity in what a correct conversion would be, and there are a lot of PDFs out there.

I don't usually like Meta, but here they used that data to produce open weights models available to the public. That sort of thing is what piracy is for so I support it.

The cat my family had went through a phase where he would organize dismembered body parts. Organs arranged in a line on a rock, heads collected in the sandbox, it was very macabre

Fan projects really need to be done under the radar and release before complaints can be leveled