Readit NewsRepublicans are planning to ban all pornography under the guise of "national health crisis". It's in their Project 2025 playbook which they have been following very closely.
That can’t be right, can it?
... Or ... a very long-time ago, when SharePoint search would display results and synopsis's for search terms where a user couldn't open the document, but could see that it existed and could get a matching paragraph or two... Best example I would tell people of the problem was users searching for things like: "Fall 2025 layoffs"... if the document existed, then things were being planned...
Ah Microsoft, security-last is still the thing, eh?
However, it was the only operating system that I have ever used (before or since) that had some issues with it's provided disk drivers that ended-up deleting data and corrupting it's own fresh install... so, it didn't last long for me...
So yeah - this is probably one of those half-baked ideas that just wouldn't be a good one to actually implement "in-the-wild".
Which sounds like alot, but if we factor in the extended family and cross-media sharing and the number of separate streaming services we all subscribe to across many many years, then this is a "deal"...
OTOH - I don't want to be the first case/person to help determine what precedent will be set if something actually gets taken to the end-state statutory damages..
Have debated making it "read-only", but then I would be culpable for the curation of content...
That and perhaps I just don't want to encourage people loitering around in front of my house for long-transfers...
OTOH - this could be useful for essentially a "dead-drop" independent standalone box for, uh... "civil disobedience" reasons... (or a free alternative to those "prepper-internet-in-a-box" devices they are currently selling...)
By the way, the youtube video showcases this project really well.
(You know, like the neighbourhood "take-a-book, leave-a-book" little libraries, except for... digital content... It would fly an appropriate "skull + crossbones" flag...)
As for the article getting regurgitated, I am not too worried. It is simply an awfully long, awfully dense article for any LLM to synthesise more than a handful of bullet points out of, so I think any derivative product is going to make for a far less engrossing read. Indeed, if you try asking ChatGPT about runtimes right now, you'll get a pathetically shallow and mainstream analysis.
There may well be clickbait articles spawned from this, but I'm optimistic that people will find the source and be able to tell in an instance that it's the Real McCoy.
Yes, AI will scrape it and regurgitate it - but over-time it will reach people who need to know - plus it is also helpful for oneself...
We had modern multi-user and multi-tasking operating systems. We had decent high-level languages.
But the PC era started with DOS, a single-user operating system. And basic, which was so unsophisticated.
But looking back later I realized that the unsophisticated operating system and the unsophisticated language... they let normal people do things. You didn't need to understand semaphores or event-driven programming to make simple single-user programs.
And I kind of see people stuck in this distracting learning environment with too many moving parts, I think back.
... occasionally dabble in Lazarus/FreePascal to also scratch that "mid-90's" itch.
Admittedly, these days, I avoid web-based programming at every opportunity - am sick of learning new frameworks, new paradigms, etc.