Not when they can flash the capitalism card.

A lot of them use this in the HTML:

<meta property="article:post_date" content="2026-09-24T15:42:36+0100">
<meta property="article:post_modified" content="2026-09-24T15:54:02+0100">
<meta property="article:published_time" content="2026-09-24T15:42:36Z">
<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2026-09-24T15:54:02Z">

I’ve scripted a fair bit of scraping in the past just by looking for those kinds of entries. But only focussed on a few dozen websites so I can’t say how common it is.

If the fetching function can validate the data it should be able to continue without a date if needed.

Yeah, dates in submission links would be great. Wonder if it can be automated so when I submit a URL, lemmy fetches the creation date while it’s fetching the headline.

Yeah, it seems like a new type of judgement is needed that I don’t normally encounter in a day. Like, I use a hammer to hammer nails, then I put it down. I don’t try to cook with it. This tool has a weird, abstract nature to it where you can drift between using / misusing / abusing without necessarily noticing. A strange position to be in while trying to work at the same time .

I’m finding it hard to reconcile the people who find it useless with those who find it useful. My own experience with languages is that it speeds me up for tasks I have the skills to verify, but with ones I don’t it can slow me down doing the verification and fixes.

I know software developers in a Fortune 500 company who swear that overall they are far more productive with “agents”. I don’t know if it’s a highly tailored system rather than the more all-purpose ones the general public have. So I do wonder if there are use cases for it.

It’s ruining the planet and our societies, though. And it’s distracting us from what really matters. Net negative for sure.

Edit: they’re also not very good at their most basic tasks. Researchers have found that when the major LLMs summarise articles, it misrepresents the facts 51% of the time.

It’s not just about business use, but citizen access to content. I looked it up and this is the stage it’s at now https://gizmodo.com/the-first-us-law-targeting-vpn-use-takes-effect-september-3-heres-what-happen-2000805001

The new law is narrow. VPN companies say they can’t do it. Fines for businesses that don’t are real. It’s all a little strange.

Very few people will set up their own business or technical venture, though. That’s enough to have a chilling effect.

The US claim they are going after the VPN companies now too. Of course it could be all lies and deflection like most things they say now.

https://www.boredbutton.com/ is the closest I’ve found. Not open source unfortunately.

We’re friends, though. We’re honest with each other. I want to know his perspective even when we diverge.

So if I love pizza and he hates it, I don’t want my friend to tell me with a coat-hanger smile that he likes pizza too. I want to know how much he hates it with all the adjectives he can muster.

Yes, but it’s very white and Anglo so it doesn’t feel like a “worldwide” web.

I mentioned a meme I saw to a friend of mine and it turns out he doesn’t have social media at all. He just said “The mediocrity of it…” and we went back to talking about other stuff again.

He had a point.

I think so too.

When I first saw this well over a year ago, I was told it was fake. I remember being disappointed that it wasn’t real. I can’t back up what I’m saying though, and I don’t remember if it was AI fake or photo editing fake.

This is still surveillance, just with audio instead of video.

But this actually creates a new problem: wearers of pervert glasses have plausible deniability. “Are you filming me?” “Who, me? Oh no, these ones don’t have cameras. Trust me”.

Ah, you got me.

The American Psychological Association (APA) Dictionary of Psychology defines gaslight as:

to manipulate another person into doubting their perceptions, experiences, or understanding of events.

Gaslighting behaviour: reframing, deflection, minimisation.

I’m not American. Does food stamps mean they effectively can’t afford to eat?

Or the technology has plateau’d and this is their cover story. I don’t know, but these two people are known liars.

Hard agree