Based on the headline this is not about blocking ai scrappers but by making them pay to do it.

Based on the discussion below which moved that goalpost the most likely answer is by making it cheaper to scrape “legally” then it costs to mimic millions of individual residential browsers with human users.

I don’t know how many aces cloudflare has up its sleep to detect secret ai but they definitely have the tools to make it pretty costly and difficult. There is also a broadband impact difference between a few capitalist megapigs scrapping secretly versus loads of global basement dwellers and smaller companies scrapping worry free.

You would not believe the cosmic timing of how i find myself while reading this.

Id definitly label it sensory unpleasant but i would argue it cannot be compared.

The experience of both is one all humans will experience many times starting from childhood. Its a bad thing but its one you know, The experience is predictable and often the same as other times.

The experience of food is much more diverse and thus unpredictable. We all have experienced eating a “trusted” dish made somewhere else to find ourselves betrayed by “different brand”, “extra ingredient” or “chopped in unusual sizes”

Hyperbole aside (autistic adults may learn to get used to some of those suprises or mask their way trough), the exact sensory experiences are unique to each individual and many autistic people will chase certain stimulation as well as avoid it.

Some i know are:

Walking barefoot, Roller coasters, Storm chasing, And for me, somewhat ironically, some forms of fine dining.

Zombies are people too. Technically humanity “lives” on.

Protect zombie rights to eat, donate your brain and join the hord today!

The one friend may be autistic and suffer food related overstimulation. This plate feels very no stress safe.

This is not a joke, its a lesser known but very common thing among us.

For one by being family and friends supporting those that do have official roles in society. Like a grandma tanking care for grandkids. Or a disabled men always being there to cheer people on at the local sport field.

In another by having freedom to do what they find valuable for their communities, like creating a shared community garden, helping to organize free local events.

And even if they do decide to just sit on the coach and do absolutely fuck all and wait for others to prepare their food, which is scientificaly known to not be what anyone wants to do and cause depression, they still aint doing as much evil and damaging as Bezos is right this moment.

Go watch some star trek, it will help you understand.

And the same goes for all the freeloading animals. They say there are species still left undiscovered in the rain forest, if that is true then surely the fact we dont know they exist means they are not contributing and don’t deserve those trees they live in that could provide real tangable profit. Getting rich by cutting them down that is real value /s

Seriously the notion you need to earn to live, especially in the context where that only means economic labor is toxic and the true negative.

I will remind you that “the economy” itself is increasingly negative towards society, destroying the future for a profit. And that people without jobs still provide plenty of positives if not, less negatives then “successfull” people like board directors and ceo

Nah, kinda the worst time really. Take a good look at society right now and one could argue we utterly failed and should reject it.

There is a big overlap beteen the autism and queer communities.

Something about realizing you don’t fit neurotypical expectations and boxes.

At some point i realized that while online, i have absolutely no need nor experience gender. Like there is no difference in how i read or reply to your comments wether i would be male or female. Same goes for playing most games, though in rpg i may pick any.

I do experience gender in some situations, as a partner and parent, because there having a gender makes actual sense. I am not at odds with my birth assigned sex i just dont require it all the time and enjoy experimenting with gender non-conform behaviour.

Also since i am married i am no longer looking to find a life/sex partner and in a professional setting should strive for gender neutral behaviour anyway.

As terminology i identify as mostly non-binary, fluid across the binary line but skewed to one side.

I knew it was a mistake to come in this thread.

You people are insane.

Who else would we be?

A chance?

My psychiatrist has mentioned that it appears like it’s important for me that things are logical.

But it really started to rub me the wrong way because i know all people including myself are inherently illogical and make mistakes all the time.

The more accurate terminology i recently found is “intellectual integrity”. “Intellectual dishonesty” fits very well as a related term.

If your library is on other platform like gog, epic, amazon or off platform .exe you can use heroic launcher and for most stuff it works just as well.

For some games there is a little more learning curve because you have to translate custom steam configurations found on protondb to do the same thing in heroic but overall you actually have way more control then steam.

The only reason “id think twice” is if you play lots of games with anticheat which does not work on every distro (like arch btw).

I am no psychologist but it’s about how their day night cycle develops which is very different from adults.

Daylight is one of the systems it uses to self regulate and start feeling awake.

School actually starts to soon in many places, that already a major part of it. Research (not at hand) actually show grades go up if school starts later. We basically force kids to be tired to fit our schedule and it gets worse for teens.

With delayd sunlight. They wont really be properly awake for almost half their “productive” day”.

We also know that lack of sleep is a pillar of mental health conditions, now include all the dormant mental health conditions kids already carry and with growing up in this timeline.

Yes i know, from the perspective of others i got sidetracked but its part of a larger thing in my brain where intellectual property is a symptom of the capitalist disease. I mentioned the autism thing, we tend to connect dots on all scales.

I could go on and explain how IP can actually become a form of thought police. (Things being invented just to cencor them/The creator of Disco Elysium being banned to publish things from his own paracosm universe) but to be honest your replies have been lacking substance and i am rather tired of defending this towards someone who is not going to change their right. (Which is your right, i respect your entitlement to your beliefs)

I don’t know who this person is but something tells me he is the son of a wealthy family who has connections to all of those brands.

How far off am i?

That job does not sound like a real job, it sounds like a job title that is a thinly veiled excuse to arrange perpetual exclusive socialism for the rich.

Thank you for reading my analysis, the bill, regardless wether i am correct is about 69.420mil

Of course not, it runs on people wanting to live in and improve society.

Money is a system we invented long after society was already a thing, it’s not a required part of it.

Of course you are correct to think of me as an idealist but my general stance is that while perfection can never be archived you should strive for perfection to get closest to it.

Combined with a lifelong pursuit of growth and improvement you keep getting closer to that perfection and the fact you cant archive it means there is always something else to improve and not get bored.

That is my real life work attitude, how i can jump from “high level” complex tasks to “dumb” repetitive labor tasks while still having job satisfaction because even those repetitive labor tasks have a non perfect structure i love to keep improving with every repetition.

I am not sure this logic holds well.

People who are rich are still involved in society to the point i wish they would stop exploiting to chase more profit and just retire already with their near infinite wealth.

And the actual retirees your refer towards that don’t do anything are usually old people who slaved an entire career for a total less then some rich “earn” in a single day.

I do think people who build cool stuff deserve to be rewarded though, we could give them a cool artwork, trow them a party or just continue to respect and thank them for their accomplishments.

Currently the reward is “here are the means that someone else could use to not starve that you can now use to go on a holiday with.”

The fruit of our labor should be a better world for everyone and future generations.

The belief that people won’t work without external pressure is contradicted by human history, cooperative work and mutual aid have existed for millennia before formal economies developed.

Its known that when people’s basic needs are met, the desire to create and contribute is a natural human drive.

Also as a bit of a sidenote to avoid confusion, i believe all people deserve and could be given more comfort and luxury then their labor currently grants them. So its not correct that i would not want people to have those things, just that it should be non conditional.

I am aware that there are people like that that exists and that its quite a big number of people

But I will never understand how people like that exist. And to be very controversially honest I don’t trust the sincerity and thus ideas of people that think like this. Though i still respect such people like anyone else all the same.

Granted i am a certified autist but personal gain has almost no value to me, to the point that being paid actually demotivates me because:

• I believe i deserve to have a good quality life regardless of economic value and know that statistically humanity has enough resources/food to guarantee such for everyone. It being conditional makes me feel exploited.

• I always want to be the best possible version of myself and accomplish whatever i, with my human limitations, am able to, which has the most general positive effect on the total universe. Regardless of anything. I consider it personality offensive others assume i would want anything else.

I feel devaluated because society appears convinced that i would not do work if they were not threatening my survival, and because corporate hierarchy is what it is i actually have to underachieve all the time because fighting to make actual improvements would quickly threaten the control of higher ups and thus become a risk for my own means of survival.

Sure, if i could solve climate change and no one would even thank me for it leaving starving poor then i would be very sad. But self worth and identity would be Intact because i would be doing what i know is right.

While changing that in favour of stock trading maybe my life standards would be better but with the lack of any real value and living of a system designed around exploitation of existing value will make me feel worse to the point i may actually end up an existential crisis and kill myself.

To die sooner for the right reasons is a better life than to survive longer for the wrong reasons.

While i know my stance is rare i know there are plenty of people who think exactly like i do about this.

Anyway i also got a bit side tracked because this wasn’t about ip laws anymore, but my belief remains that if people can work on what they want without it affecting their personal access to luxury then there is no reason why they would not work on things that benefit all of society and thus themselves.