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Seems that the Internet Archive (The Wayback Machine) are undergoing a DDoS attack. The only possible reason I can think of for that is there is some company or gov that has something to hide.
I often find myself going to the Wayback Machine to verify what a big corporate once said.
That sources of history are being attacked is worrying, to say the least. What can we as a group do to protect a verifiable source of truth?
Here's one suggestion: Help them to go distributed.
I'm an old veteran programmer (35 years), and am mostly out of it now, although I still do some DB and embedded stuff, but I'm not up on the recent stuff.
We need people to step up and help protect the history stored by the IA and the WBM, or bad actors will erase it, or prevent access to it. Can you say 'George Orwell' ?
(@ the guy who writes the subtitles to all the headlines to CodeProject news... you rock!)
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Trellian wrote: the guy who writes the subtitles to all the headlines to CodeProject news... you rock!
That would be, the one and only Kent Sharkey[^]
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I go there quite often, wouldn't want to see anything happen to them.
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
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George Orwell
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Probably all the LLMs collecting source material 
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subject obviously stolen...so let continue stealing
When in the Course of human events, it
became noticeable that society is not willing to manage itself
smart layers will see the money making opportunity and make rules and laws.
In my opinion, each and every AI assisted text , message , chat ( especially ) etc
MUST be required , by law, to be identified as such:
"This was produced by/ with an aid of AI, caveat emptor "
This rant was not build using AI ( can you tell ?)
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Trouble is that that's like having an "Are you 18?" page on a naughty website with two buttons: "I'm 18 or over, let me in" and "I'm under 18, I'll go away now" and expecting anyone ever to press the second one ... 
Since we don't have any proper real-world identification with the internet, many feel free to do or say what they want: plagiarise from people or AI, troll, or attempt to destroy. Who is going to arrest them if the AI is in China and he hands it in as his own work in the USA?
Laws that can't or won't be enforced are worse than useless - they undermine the fabric of "real laws".
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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It could be a requirement of the code that all copy/pasted material include an indelible "watermark". So to use it without the mark, you'd have to type it out yourself.
Of course this would usher in another challenge of creating apps to remove the watermark, but with this logic, why bother with even locking your doors?
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How do you propose we add a watermark to text? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That would be a job for someone other than me 
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In the old days, it came with the paper.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Ai in Chinese means "to love". Spread it.
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Salvatore Terress wrote: smart layers lawyers
Obvious that the rant was not produced by AI. Because today's AI would'nt produce such a typo.
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Amarnath S wrote: AI would'ntdn't produce such a typo.
FTFY; sorry, couldn't resist. 
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(Covering myself under a hood) ... not a native English speaker 
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Amarnath S wrote: not a native English speaker
But you still (probably speak*) and write it better than many who are. Having worked for a few weeks in India I know from experience how well many of you speak English.
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As non-native English speakers, we have an advantage: We don't know 'The Right Way' of speaking English. We do not frown at neither Indian English, Australian, US or Oxford English. When I speak with Indians (there were 3-4 of them in my last job), it took me a week after a vacation to get back into their special pronunciation and wordings. Going to the US of A, it may take me a day or two to get into Americanisms. Years ago, I had a Scottish coworker who sometimes was away for a few months. When he returned, I really had to concentrate to understand his speaking for the first two days - but he insisted that he didn't speak English, but Scottish  .
Certainly, most Americans are quite tolerant about variants of English (you have to be ) - but certainly not everyone. Maybe the percentage of intolerant British really is higher, but on the other hand, out of politeness they don't say anything; they just signal their dismay through body language.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Speaking of Australian English experiences, there's a humorous incident commonly quoted here. (Not to offend anyone)
An Indian cricketer landed in Sydney and went to the hotel receptionist to check in. Here's the conversation:
Receptionist: Did you come here to die?
Indian cricketer: Er... Well... I came here to live, and to play.
Only later did the Indian cricketer realize that 'today' was pronounced as 'to die'.
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In India itself, there are several variants of English.
I speak Kinglish (Kannada + English). Then there is Hinglish (Hindi + English). There are also Tamil + English, Malayalam + English, and many others.
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I guess it was Kinglish that I was exposed to in Bangalore. As a very small child, born in Mussoorie, I spoke a mixture of Urdu and English. But I soon lost that when we left and came to England.
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The most commonly spoken language in the world is broken English.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Or else, it must commit the sender, no less than a human-sent message
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As some probably noticed , I am non English speaking person.
When I was gainfully employed , I worked all over US and NEVER had an issue communicating,
in personal matters or technically, until "Al Gore invented internet".
Nowadays most of my posts are judged for format and not for contents. Seldom I get comments
about my missuses of " Queens English".
Al Gore turned society communicating skills from a subject oriented to opinions oriented.
With that said - if my communicating skils where then opinions based /originated I would have been collecting unemployment instead of working.
I am also known not to blindly follow stupid rules , ( my favorite - format your code - or else I won;t help you ) , but when people lack basic skills or desire
to actually read the rules , and follow them - then AI will eventually take over...
PS
You can, at least partially, "blame it" on my favorite fellow countryman author for inventing word "robot".
I am not sure if I should be fond or shame of it.
Cheers
PS
Sorry for the long rambling, but we lost power - again - and being in dark sprouts (crazy) ideas...
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... well that's the "plan". I'm technically, between contracts - but, more realistically, probably at the end of the road of a forty year career in software development. So of course, I thought... I'll write a novel - a fiction novel, in fact. Doesn't everyone?
Well it's not all fun and games trying to be an author. I started on a new chapter... five lines in and I'm thinking:
1. Does that look right?
2. Is this how it should start?
3. What happens next.
4. Is this really a chapter?
Just like programming, I guess!
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