User contributions for Loqi.me

1 August 2024

• 19:3919:39, 1 August 2024 diff hist +333‎ m TUAW ‎ [tantek] added "^ <blockquote>In one of the most egregiously unethical uses of AI we've seen, a web advertising company has re-created some defunct, classic tech blogs, like The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) and iLounge, by mimicking the bylines of the websites' former writers and publishing AI-generated content under their names.</blockquote>" to "See Also"
• 19:3819:38, 1 August 2024 diff hist +305‎ m TUAW ‎ [tantek] added "2024-07-11 Ars Technica: [https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/07/ilounge-and-the-unofficial-apple-weblog-are-back-as-unethical-ai-content-farms/ Shady company relaunches popular old tech blogs, steals writers’ identities] / This doesn't just threaten writers' work—it has a corrosive effect on the web." to "See Also"
• 19:3719:37, 1 August 2024 diff hist +189‎ m TUAW ‎ [tantek] added "2024-07-12 Mashable: [https://mashable.com/article/apple-blogs-ai-fake Someone is turning old Apple blogs into AI content factories with fake authors] / Who thought this was a good idea?" to "See Also"
• 19:3519:35, 1 August 2024 diff hist +322‎ m TUAW ‎ [tantek] added "2024-07-10 [https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/10/tuaw-ai-farm/ TUAW makes a sad return as an AI-powered stolen content farm] <blockquote>The domain was acquired by Yahoo, which recently sold it – without any rights to the content – to a company called Web Orange Limited (WOL). This is when things get messy.</blockquote>" to "See Also"
• 19:0019:00, 1 August 2024 diff hist +439‎ m TUAW ‎ [tantek] added "2024-07-09 [https://www.404media.co/a-beloved-tech-blog-tuaw-is-now-publishing-ai-articles-under-the-names-of-its-old-human-staff/ A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff] / TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI summarizers." to "See Also"
• 18:5418:54, 1 August 2024 diff hist +95‎ m TUAW ‎ [tantek] added "^ / TUAW, ‘The Unofficial Apple Weblog,’ has been recreated in an incredibly scummy way." to "See Also"
• 18:5318:53, 1 August 2024 diff hist +210‎ m TUAW ‎ [tantek] added "2024-07-10 The Verge: [https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/10/24195858/tuaw-unofficial-apple-tech-blog-ai-web-orange-khan Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified]" to "See Also"
• 18:5318:53, 1 August 2024 diff hist +208‎ m TUAW ‎ [tantek] added "2024-07-09 [https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/07/09/ad-agency-zombifies-tuaw-with-ai-copy-recycled-bylines-in-stupid-seo-play Ad agency zombifies TUAW with AI copy & recycled bylines in stupid SEO play]" to "See Also"
• 18:5218:52, 1 August 2024 diff hist +98‎ TUAW ‎ [tantek] added "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblogs,_Inc.#The_Unofficial_Apple_Weblog_(TUAW)" to "See Also"
• 17:3317:33, 1 August 2024 diff hist +377‎ m site-deaths ‎ [tantek] added "2023 "IRL(.com)" social media silo shut down 2023-06-27 (https://web.archive.org/web/20230628161920/https://www.irl.com/) because “most of IRL's users were bots”, launched in 2021 (https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22534253/irl-social-network-facebook-groups-calendar-events-messaging), and is subsequently being sued: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgxqw505pq4o" to "See Also"

31 July 2024

• 20:5720:57, 31 July 2024 diff hist +197‎ m LinkedIn ‎ [tantek] added "Criticism: 2024-07-31 SFGate: [https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/linkedin-laid-off-california-workers-19607067.php 'A cesspool': Laid-off California tech workers are sick to death of LinkedIn]" to "See Also" current

30 July 2024

• 20:0020:00, 30 July 2024 diff hist +114‎ N best practices/placement for an `h-card` ‎ prompted by sdcaulley and dfn added by [snarfed]
• 06:4506:45, 30 July 2024 diff hist +108‎ m large language model ‎ [tantek] added "^ CNN had a criticism too: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/29/tech/googles-ai-olympics-ad-backlash/index.html" to "See Also" current

29 July 2024

• 20:0420:04, 29 July 2024 diff hist +257‎ m large language model ‎ [tantek] added "Criticism: Don't write fan letters using GenAI, unlike what the Google Gemini ad is encouraging you to do: 2024-07-28 [https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/28/dear-google-who-wants-an-ai-written-fan-letter/ Dear Google, who wants an AI-written fan letter?]" to "See Also"

27 July 2024

• 14:1914:19, 27 July 2024 diff hist +81‎ m book ‎ [tantek] added "IndieWeb example: https://zeldman.com/talent/Taking_Your_Talent_to_the_Web.pdf" to "See Also" current
• 05:2405:24, 27 July 2024 diff hist +113‎ m large language model ‎ [tantek] added "How to turn off training Grok on your tweets: uncheck this setting: https://twitter.com/settings/grok_settings" to "See Also"
• 05:2005:20, 27 July 2024 diff hist +113‎ m Twitter ‎ [tantek] added "How to turn off training Grok on your tweets: uncheck this setting: https://twitter.com/settings/grok_settings" to "See Also" current

26 July 2024

• 18:5718:57, 26 July 2024 diff hist +55‎ m 88x31 ‎ [tantek] added "https://kolektiva.social/@booters/112854181281088015" to "See Also"

24 July 2024

• 20:1020:10, 24 July 2024 diff hist +37‎ m fragmention ‎ [tantek] added "https://idpf.org/epub/linking/cfi/" to "See Also" current

20 July 2024

• 01:5101:51, 20 July 2024 diff hist +205‎ m Google Maps ‎ [tantek] added "https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/111950192497229707" to "See Also"

19 July 2024

• 23:4723:47, 19 July 2024 diff hist +21‎ m shortlink ‎ [tantek] added "link shortener" to "See Also"
• 23:2923:29, 19 July 2024 diff hist +53‎ m goo.gl ‎ [tantek] added "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_URL_Shortener" to "See Also"
• 21:4021:40, 19 July 2024 diff hist +213‎ m Google Maps ‎ [tantek] added "Criticism: share feature generates goo(.)gl links like https://maps.app.goo.gl/7B5SjtoxUMavkpnz7?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy which will presumably all break once http://goo.gl shuts down on 2025-08-25" to "See Also"
• 18:3518:35, 19 July 2024 diff hist +103‎ m Google ‎ [tantek] added "Criticism, fails to invest in simple cheap maintenance https://queer.party/@ticky/112809928477768537" to "See Also" current
• 18:3418:34, 19 July 2024 diff hist +90‎ m site-deaths ‎ [tantek] added "Goo. gl shutdown comment early / thread : https://queer.party/@ticky/112809928477768537" to "See Also"
• 17:3417:34, 19 July 2024 diff hist +138‎ m site-deaths ‎ [tantek] added "2025-08-25 goo .gl links all breaking: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201734/google-url-link-shortening-service-shut-down-support" to "See Also"

13 July 2024

• 03:4603:46, 13 July 2024 diff hist +14‎ m press-kit ‎ [tantek]2 added "buttons" to "See Also" current

10 July 2024

• 18:5718:57, 10 July 2024 diff hist +58‎ m maps ‎ capjamesg[d] added "[https://gusbus.space/smallweb-subway/ Smallweb Subway]" to "See Also"
• 16:0416:04, 10 July 2024 diff hist +29‎ marketing ‎ [tantek] added "press kit" to "See Also"
• 15:5715:57, 10 July 2024 diff hist +468‎ N marketing ‎ prompted by [tantek] and dfn added by [tantek]
• 08:4308:43, 10 July 2024 diff hist +4,930‎ m footnote ‎ [jeremycherfas] added "https://daily.jstor.org/historys-footnotes/" to "See Also"

9 July 2024

• 02:4002:40, 9 July 2024 diff hist +243‎ m curated comments ‎ [tantek] added "IndieWeb Example: {{t}} is experimenting with statically displayed curated comments with an explicit notice about the curation and sources of comments. E.g. https://tantek.com/2024/180/b1/responsible-inventing#responsible-inventing-comments" to "See Also"

8 July 2024

• 22:0522:05, 8 July 2024 diff hist +64‎ m large language model ‎ [tantek] added "News publication example: https://www.sfchronicle.com/ai_use/" to "See Also"
• 00:4400:44, 8 July 2024 diff hist +36‎ UTF-8 ‎ [tantek] added "curly quotes" to "See Also"
• 00:4400:44, 8 July 2024 diff hist +15‎ m curly quotes ‎ [tantek] added "brackets" to "See Also"

5 July 2024

• 21:3421:34, 5 July 2024 diff hist +274‎ m CloudFlare ‎ [tantek] added "Feature: can block LLM training scrapers on your behalf: 2024-07-03 [https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click]" to "See Also"
• 18:4918:49, 5 July 2024 diff hist +33‎ N genAI ‎ prompted by [tantek] and redirect added by [tantek] current Tag: New redirect
• 18:4918:49, 5 July 2024 diff hist +294‎ m large language model ‎ [tantek] added "Criticism 85% of Cloudflare's customers prefer to block GenAI training scrapers: 2024-07-03 [https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click]" to "See Also"
• 17:5217:52, 5 July 2024 diff hist +141‎ brackets ‎ [tantek] added "2024-03-30 {{capjamesg}}: [https://jamesg.blog/2024/03/30/braces/ Analysis of [the] prose use of braces (curly brackets)]" to "See Also"
• 17:2817:28, 5 July 2024 diff hist +262‎ N brackets ‎ prompted by [tantek] and dfn added by [tantek]
• 16:3616:36, 5 July 2024 diff hist +122‎ m book ‎ [chrisaldrich] added "[Writebook](https://once.com/writebook) is a free downloadable Rails app created by 37signals to create web-based books" to "See Also"

3 July 2024

• 18:1718:17, 3 July 2024 diff hist +149‎ m Pocket ‎ [tantek] added "Example of PESOS setup to automatically create read posts when items are added to Pocket: https://babka.social/@acarson/112723622884518353" to "See Also" current
• 02:0302:03, 3 July 2024 diff hist +166‎ m curated comments ‎ [tantek] added "Example: {{t}} added curated comments (reply permalink link and author) to his blog posts from 2002-2008, based on shared links and search results from Technorati." to "See Also"
• 02:0202:02, 3 July 2024 diff hist +128‎ m curated comments ‎ [tantek] added "Example: {{claudinec}} is manually curating comments from the fediverse: https://www.claudinec.net/posts/2024-05-26-indieweb/" to "See Also"
• 02:0102:01, 3 July 2024 diff hist +119‎ m curated comments ‎ [tantek] added "Example: Joel curates responses on posts: https://thelocalyarn.com/article/accepting-footnotes" to "See Also"
• 02:0102:01, 3 July 2024 diff hist +402‎ curated comments ‎ [tantek] added "Related "webnotes" post and discussion: https://chat.indieweb.org/stream/2024-06-19#t1718817601749100" to "See Also"
• 02:0002:00, 3 July 2024 diff hist +397‎ N curated comments ‎ prompted by [tantek] and dfn added by [tantek]
• 01:5601:56, 3 July 2024 diff hist +27‎ N local comment ‎ prompted by [tantek] and redirect added by [tantek] current Tag: New redirect

2 July 2024

• 20:4020:40, 2 July 2024 diff hist +168‎ m static site generator ‎ [tantek] added "Alternative: write HTML by hand: 2024-07-01 [https://logicgrimoire.wordpress.com/2024/07/01/writing-html-by-hand-is-easier-than-debugging-your-static-site-generator/" to "See Also"
• 20:3920:39, 2 July 2024 diff hist +804‎ m static site generator ‎ [tantek] added "Criticism: high admintax “…just to avoid having to type a few brackets.” https://mastodon.social/@rmloveland/112711358776850636" to "See Also"