The question is about systemic solutions:

- Invest in 3rd places:

· Zoning that allows small businesses and cafés to be near where people live.

· Invest heavily in public libraries.

· Invest in public parks and spaces. For places where it rains a lot, maybe that should include roofed structures.

· Increase and promote funding for social organisations. Give money to orgs for every member.

- Create more free time:

· Make legislation that accommodates and promotes work weeks shorter than 37 hours.

· Ensure decent and reliable support for people who cannot (find) work, so their time is freed up to support their community.

- In disaster readiness checklists, include a point about knowing the names and special needs of your neighbours.

- Invest in mental health services. Both serious stuff and some light-weight sit-and-talk-groups.

- Set up laws that promote public transportation and carpooling.

- Anti-trust social media companies. Promote competitive compatibility between social media platforms. This is to let consumers choose the services that give them the best outcomes.

There's a little convenience/liquor store at the first floor of my suburban apartment building. I mean true convenience store. Lots of shelves with snacks and liquor. Bright lighting. Zero ambience.

It also has a tiny bar. Like 3 feet long with three stools. One terrible television.

Yet there are always people in there hanging out. People are so desperate for a place to hang that is not their house that they will hang out in a convenience store bar.

> Having content you want to hide?

This has some use cases. Besides, keeping content from users was already present in HTML through the practice of not sending it to the user.

Or through foreground/background colour settings. Which ... most terminal-based browsers will ignore or override.

I have lamented the fact that download buttons can be hard to find on software home pages sometimes. But having just a download button and a "more" button on your landing page seems to be taking things a bit too far.

"This technology will radically transform the way our world works and soon replace all knowledge-based jobs. Do not trust anything it says: Entertainment purposes only."

I feel like this sums up the AI problem at large. The marketing and hype from every tech company is that its game changing, but more softly spoken is “hey dont trust it for anything important” as a CYA disclaimer. The problem is the masses only hear the part said in bold.

In bold: This technology will radically transform the way our world works and soon replace all knowledge-based jobs.

In fine print: Do not trust anything it says: Entertainment purposes only

I like to imagine a world, a worse one, where programming languages were localised. This might initially have been a versioning nightmare, with different compiler binaries for each localisation. Later, it could become standard practice to ship a single compiler containing all supported localisations, the correct one being chosen from either system language, a project-wide setting, a preprocessor flag in each file, or some combination of these. Everyone would have to learn a little Polish, and "Source Code Translator" would be a profession.

I think if this were the case, we would have quickly moved on from storing source code as text, and begun storing it as ASTs which could be 'viewed' in any localised version of the programming language. This may have had wider benefits than just reading source code in your preferred language.

You can serialize ASTs very easily as S-expressions, or slightly fancier versions thereof. That's still "text" and quite easily readable by humans, but somewhat less oriented to direct editing.

I would love for the block delimiters to be also a preference, like the language in that world. I'd edit every language with Python style blocks.

You mean excel?

Hah!

Reminds me of the first time I tried Excel in English (might have been Google Spreadsheet) and the searchv function was nowhere to be found, not knowing it was actually called vlookup ("buscarv" in Spanish).

Not to mention they have to store the data after they download it. In theory storing garbage data is costly to them. However I have a nagging feeling that the attitude of these scrapers is they get paid the same amount per gigabyte whether it's nonsense or not.

If they even are AI crawlers. Could be just as well some exploit-scanners that are searching for endpoints they'd try to exploit. That wouldn't require storing the content, only the links.

If you look at the pages which are hit and how many pages are hit by any one address in a given period of time it's pretty easy to identify features which are reliable proxies for e.g. exploit scanners, trawlers, agents. I publish a feed of what's being hit on my servers, contact me for details (you need to be able to make DNS queries to a particular server directed at a domain which is not reachable from ICANN's root).

Although this is objectively an advantage, it means I've spent just as much of my time mucking about with customisation in Typst, as I have in LaTeX :p

Way back when, my prof was using his Linux machine to demonstrate how to use GCC. He called the end result .exe but that might have been for the benefit of the Windows users in the room. (Though Linux users being considerate to Windows users, or vice versa, is admittedly a rarity)

Maybe using VLC Media Player from an early age has left me with too high expectations. But if I have a program designed to view or edit a certain class of file, and it doesn't support a certain file format, I will blame that program.

Never mind quality - how can you achieve the same reach as someone with an advertising budget?