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7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80 ,

I thought this was an article about the X Windows system based on the preview for the article. Boy are those two similar-looking.

MJBrune ,

Realistically, very little people know about x windows system even less care about it.

danielton ,

You could always join wayland.social

veloxization ,
@veloxization@yiffit.net avatar

He’s still mad at those researchers for scraping the data that shows that ever since he took over, the antisemitism, racism and general bigotry has gone up on the platform.

SirEDCaLot ,

When Elon bought Twitter I was hopeful- I strongly believe the world needs an open, free-speech based, ‘public square’. The problem with the Internet right now is many ‘public squares’ are privately owned, and those private companies cater to advertisers more than users.

Sadly I don’t think it’s worked out that well. I think Twitter is probably better off than they were, but you can’t have a public square without openness. And while Twitter/X is now more free, it’s also less open.

SuddenlyBlowGreen ,

Yeah, well, Elon showed you how much he actually values free speech.

ruckblack ,

“more free” my dude people who pay $8 per month get their replies boosted up above everyone else. What are you talking about?

SirEDCaLot ,

More free in that the moderation doesn’t have a bias. I think any bias is harmful, be it Left or Right leaning. I much prefer the current approach of fact checking posts with community notes over hiding posts that are deemed undesirable.

revv ,

Didn’t our little Free Speech Absolutist™️ ban the “slurs” cis and cisgender while also banning folks who misgender cis folks while supporting those who do the same to trans folks? (To say nothing of the removal of lots and lots of other legal speech that he did not like. If that’s what unbiased looks like to you, I think that you may want to examine your own biases.

tonytins ,
@tonytins@pawb.social avatar

How on earth will do they plan on enforcing that? xD

xavier666 ,

They don’t have to enforce it. If someone says bad things about Twitter by analysing their content, Twitter can sue them scraping.

IphtashuFitz ,

“Our interns spent 500 hours collecting the raw data”.

ChunkMcHorkle , (edited )
@ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world avatar

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cheese_greater ,

Crawling for me, not thee!

Darkard ,

I hope someone makes some manic bot that scrapes every last tweet and posts it on a duplicate site call Y

SinningStromgald , (edited )

Might as well go whole hog and do the entire alphabet. Then do one for every iteration of every letter combination.

Ignacio ,

Library of Babel.

ZeroMmX ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cb005cf9-daf7-4a22-8d8d-8caca1650e29.mp4

pseudorandom ,

Or just stop using X all together.

dingleberry ,

Just update robot.txt coward!

Iwasondigg ,

Took a look at their robots.txt, it appears to block all bots except Google.

Jaysyn ,
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

This is hilariously unenforceable as long as Twitter is on the public internet.

YurkshireLad ,

So he’s going to sue google then?

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Good luck enforcing that.

cheese_greater ,

Let the Supreme Court enforce it ;)

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

It should, but it won’t.

underisk ,
@underisk@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m pretty sure both parties must agree to the terms before they legally bind anyone so wouldn’t this just apply to logged in users?

thepianistfroggollum ,

Accessing the website is often viewed as accepting the terms, so that wouldn’t hold up. Not that they’d have a legal standpoint on the issue.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Accessing the website is often viewed as accepting the terms

The scraping bot can’t read the terms

But even if it could, it wouldn’t give a damn :-)

mojo ,

i.imgflip.com/3vxdmq.jpg

TheEntity ,

How do you read the terms without accessing their website?

mojo ,

By reading this message you agree to my terms that I’m really cool

eskimofry ,

Lol and you username

Lettuceeatlettuce ,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Lol this has the same energy as those NFT idiots crying about people taking screenshots of their stupid monkeys.

Noooo, stop scraping my dataaaa!

cheese_greater ,

Never waste an opportunity to use “muh” in place of “my”

ripcord ,
@ripcord@kbin.social avatar

No thanks!

SlopppyEngineer ,

And the next generation of AI probably only needs a fraction of the data it needs now so the need to scrape the data is gone.

BlinkerFluid ,
@BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one avatar

don’t!

You heard him, scrape more.

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