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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you very much. Weird article.

How do you find the archived version of news stories? I see many communities have automatically archived version, how does that work, broadly?

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Go to https://archive.is and paste the URL you want to archive or view.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quick second thank you, I've used this five times since you've shared it with me, so useful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Varyk It really is life changing :D
Btw other life changing apps if you don't know them are NewPipe from F-Droid and Fennec+uBlockOrigin also via F-Droid. No more ads on the smartphone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I'm all over newpipe, thanks.

What's fennec and ublock for?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Varyk Ad blocking on the mobile internet. I haven't seen an ad on my smartphone for years now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, thanks. The last corrupted bastion of ads on my phone was YouTube and then I found newpipe and never looked back. Oh but I just started using busuu and they play ads in between language lessons. Would it work for that? Or is fennec just for browsers?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, got it thanks. So fennec is specifically for browsers?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Varyk Fennec is the browser. It's Firefox Mobile with some proprietary stuff removed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh got it. Thanks, I'll check it out

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Isn't it more like, a guy who wanted to kill the Queen talked to a chatbot about it, and the chatbot rolled with it cos chatbots will default to rolling with whatever you give them? Just seems the likely scenario to me ..


Yep, this BBC article has a couple of the chat logs. If they're representative, the bot is no more culpable than if he asked a magic 8-ball.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Nobody said the chat-bots were always wrong, sometimes they happen to answer correctly. Anti-royalism is correct.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Literally said it out loud before opening the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd have liked to see how Replika responded to him

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bahaha got me there 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Not the chatbot's fault he misunderstood

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

is she alive?

[–] alienanimals 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/5g9zxduFtSM?si=rySUEucTmee3onKc

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There should be no kings or queens. Just like there should be no slave owners...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

That is a different topic, I am not saying you are wrong, but in this case I'd focus on the fact that a chat bot encouraged a person to kill another.