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What if in 1989, Tim Berners Lee invented the semantic web instead of the world wide web?

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It ticks every box you could wish for in your olde worlde trash: Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham, faerie smut … and not a bad wig in sight! Hurrah!

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I've been following the struggle of bearblog developer to manage the current war between bot scrapers and people who are trying to keep a safe and human oriented internet. What is lemmy doing about bot scrapers?

Some context from bearblog dev

The great scrape

https://herman.bearblog.dev/the-great-scrape/

LLMs feed on data. Vast quantities of text are needed to train these models, which are in turn receiving valuations in the billions. This data is scraped from the broader internet, from blogs, websites, and forums, without the author's permission and all content being opt-in by default.

Needless to say, this is unethical. But as Meta has proven, it's much easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. It is unlikely they will be ordered to "un-train" their next generation models due to some copyright complaints.

Aggressive bots ruined my weekend

https://herman.bearblog.dev/agressive-bots/

It's more dangerous than ever to self-host, since simple mistakes in configurations will likely be found and exploited. In the last 24 hours I've blocked close to 2 million malicious requests across several hundred blogs.

What's wild is that these scrapers rotate through thousands of IP addresses during their scrapes, which leads me to suspect that the requests are being tunnelled through apps on mobile devices, since the ASNs tend to be cellular networks. I'm still speculating here, but I think app developers have found another way to monetise their apps by offering them for free, and selling tunnel access to scrapers

Carney's finance minister has been promising to deliver "generational investments" in this budget

but at the same time, Carney has warned that his plan to transform the economy will involve "sacrifices." These investments and sacrifices are distributed according to a peculiar logic.

For example: Carney has been publicly wringing his hands over the $10 million he claims Canada Post "loses" every day. In their analysis of that framing,The Breach pointed out that this number (an unusually high estimate) is tiny compared to the $169 million the military spends daily. That hasn't stopped Carney from slashing the postal service's activities, all while promising an extra $9.3 billion to the country's armed forces by March.

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The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/CautiousMagazine3591 on 2025-11-04 10:41:11+00:00.

At Lincoln Center Theater, a new play from the makers of “The Jungle” tries to dramatize the negotiations that led to the Kyoto Protocol.

https://archive.ph/CVFBm

In short:

The Christmas Island shrew has been added to an international "red list" of extinct species.

Only four sightings of the mouse-sized mammal have been reported in the past 120 years.

What's next?

The listing takes Australia's tally of extinct mammal species to 39 since colonisation.

The Trump administration has ordered states to investigate certain individuals enrolled in Medicaid to determine whether they are ineligible because of their immigration status, with five states reporting they’ve together received more than 170,000 names — an “unprecedented” step by the federal government that ensnares the state-federal health program in the president’s immigration crackdown.

Advocates say the push burdens states with duplicative verification checks and could lead people to lose coverage just for missing paperwork deadlines. But the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Mehmet Oz, said in a post on the social platform X on Oct. 31 that more than $1 billion “of federal taxpayer dollars were being spent on funding Medicaid for illegal immigrants” in five states and Washington, D.C.

Medicaid’s overall spending topped $900 billion in fiscal year 2024.

It wasn’t clear from Oz’s statement or an accompanying video over what period the spending happened, and CMS spokespeople did not immediately respond to questions, either for an earlier version of this article or after Oz’s statement was posted.

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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/Jutinato on 2025-11-04 15:21:29+00:00.

This question popped up in my mind. Also, my boyfriend's last relationship was with a girl who did this.