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It took me less than a minute on the site to run into factually wrong information, broken citations, etc. Cannot imagine rotting my brain with knowingly bad information for over 2 hours


I’ve run into the exact same set of issues on Wikipedia.


Did you fix them?


This is sometimes hard when the editors keep on reversing edits which attempt to fix those errors. It will be interesting to see how Grokipedia - a bad name, surely they can come up with something better - deals with this.

I often come across out-of-place or clearly ideologically driven content on Wikipedia and normally just leave this alone - I have better things to do with my limited time than to fight edit wars with activist editors. Having said that I did a number of experiments some 5 years ago with editing Wikipedia where I removed clearly ideologically driven sections out of articles where those sections really had no place. One of these experiments consisted of removing sections about ´queer politics and queer viewpoints' from articles about popular cartoon characters. These sections - often spanning several paragraphs - were inserted relatively recently into the articles and were nothing more than attempts to use those articles to push a 'queer' viewpoint on the subject matter and as such not relevant for a general purpose encyclopedia. I commented my edits with a reference to the NPOV rules. My edits were reversed without comment. I reversed the reversion with the remark to either explain the reversion of leave the edits in place and was reversed again, no comments. I reversed again with an invitation to discuss the edits on the Talk pages which was not accepted while my edits were reversed again. This continued for a while with different editors reversing my edits and accusations of vandalism. Looking through the 'contribs' section for the users responsible for adding the irrelevant content showed they were doing this to hundreds of articles. I just checked and noticed the same individuals are still actively adding their 'queer perspectives' to articles where such perspectives are not relevant for a general-purpose encyclopedia.


Do you happen to remember any of the articles where you performed this experiment? I ask because specifically around 5 years ago, I know there were a number of cartoons where the creators intentionally wrote characters with queer representation in mind (She-Ra is the first to come to mind). So, if the sections you were removing had been properly cited and relevant to the actual series, then the removal for being "nothing more than attempts to use those articles to push a 'queer' viewpoint on the subject matter" probably did not represent a neutral viewpoint.

Of course, this depends on you opening up your research to some peer review.


Correct. That's the main reason I dove into reading subjects I was already knowledgeable of to see how it did.


Suggesting that people being able to make mistakes means that there's no qualitative and quantitative difference in how AI makes mistakes is either disingenuous or stupid. I don't know which place you're coming from or what kind of gotcha you think you pulled, but it doesn't create a strong argument either way.


Maybe he meant that the information was consistently incorrect, which was entertaining..


Your example proxies the console object, the intended way in this case is to make a proxy from the log function itself and use the apply hook

toString will be called on the Proxy and not your hook so it won't reveal anything


D'oh! You are correct :-) Good catch and thanks for teaching me something!


could be very useful for my work, nice to see


I've been basically doing this for years via a private mastodon instance. Very nice to see!


My bad! Switched over to the github pages fallback. Cloudflare pages isn't suitable because the wasm files (100mb+) exceed the 25mb limit. (i could bypass this with service worker jank but that tends to be fragile). Github Pages also isn't suitable because it doesn't have a native way of sending the coi/coep headers that are required for SharedArrayBuffer to be available. Can also bypass that with service worker jank but I would prefer not to


Cloudflare R3 might suit the scenario better for you in terms of the heavy assets, it's like AWS S3 except for the cool part where you aren't charged for data egress (last I checked! haha)

I'm about to buy Terraria after all these years, just so I can get the assets and check this out. You're cool :)


Oh Terraria is totally worth it, especially when spelunking with friends.

Its better than Minecraft, in my opinion.


R2


The service worker jank, while conceptually hacky, is actually remarkably un-janky and not really noticeable to users! It's very much fire-and-forget unless you also wanted to have another service worker (in which case it's time for suffering; service workers aren't even a little bit composable).

For anyone wondering: https://github.com/gzuidhof/coi-serviceworker or https://github.com/WebReflection/mini-coi


Depending on how well the files compress, you could try: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Compression...


btw: this results in a white page on the first load until you manually reload, since the SW has not been loaded yet. May want to force a page reload on the SW install event to fix.

also: this is incredibly cool. thanks for writing this up and sharing!


i do wish! firefox has web features missing that i need on a daily basis, and their developer team seems wholly uninterested on working on them at all


Which features do you mean?


I don’t know whether FF lacks these features, but I’m using:

- webpage splits

- search by image

- go to non-<a> url in bg tab

- open in new tab in a virtual sub group rather than just to the right or at the end

- tabs retain width on close until mouse goes away (helps with closing series of tabs)

- bookmarks open in new tab by default

- last tab doesn’t close the browser

- gestures and toolbar customization

That’s in Vivaldi, I probably forgot a bunch of features that feel natural but may have no FF counterpart. Tbh, looking at FF settings, there’s basically none. You can’t miss features that you never had, I guess.


most people don't use those it would be silly to add them to firefox unless it was an extension.


Half of it is ergonomics so basic, that people wouldn’t even mention as a feature.

With this reasoning you could remove tab rearrangement, open in new window and similar “most don’t use” features.


What features?


Like what?


i would always tell them to install firefox. this is mostly for developers and tech oriented people who need to keep chrome around


If I need to keep Chrome around for development, I'm not using extensions on it, and I'm only visiting the sites I'm developing.


If you use things like Apple Business Manager and you're not using a Mac, it only works on Chrome.


why? firefox performance will always be worse than blink, if only because of spidermonkey

the last thing people want from electron is a worse version of it hogging more resources


I don't think SpiderMonkey is the boat anchor you claim it to be: https://arewefastyet.com/linux64/benchmarks/overview


it's satire


really fucking cool! good job


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