duckington

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   by duckington 4y ago

   I wonder if this technology will eventually revolutionize music the same way synthesizers did. Or at least lead to music and effects/filters that are simply not possible with current DAWs and plugins. Custom generation of samples from
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   by duckington 6y ago

   Agreed. I'd guess for ~90% of web users, GDPR popups have lost all meaning. The thought process is not about opting in or out, it's more "how do I close this popup as quickly as possible?".
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   by duckington 8y ago

   https://boingboing.net/2017/04/22/internet-archive-to-ignore... They are gradually expanding the scope of sites where robots.txt is ignored, perhaps "testing the water".
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   by duckington 8y ago

   I'm guessing Archive.is will probably disappear within the next 5 years, taking all data down with it. Nobody knows who owns or maintains the site, and recently the mysterious owner started taking donations to keep the site running. It
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   by duckington 8y ago

   "bothered to index" and "IA can be quite selective" implies that there's a human overseer to the Wayback operation, not true! Pages are archived automatically, and sites are crawled by robots, not humans.