Site Archives Are Now Complete
And the G.A.I. hype fades away [1, 2]; all they have left is the lawsuits over automated plagiarism, a hack around Fair Use Doctrine
THIS site is now "complete" and a lot "greener" (maybe 100 times less load than before the upgrade). All the pages from MediaWiki and WordPress have been turned into static pages (Drupal did not have much in it), the bulletins are fully indexed, IRC is self-hosted (active, fully functional), but IPFS has been put on hold for reasons we explained before. We'll reassess the status of IPFS in the future, depending on the direction the project and its users take.
IPFS was mostly riding the "Web3" or "DAPPS" (decentralised "apps" and "blockchains" too) hype wave; now we have a chatbots hype wave, which is also waning. Some hours ago we saw a headline in "India Today" (large site), stating that "Almost 700 out of 770 OpenAI employees threaten to quit". That's 90% of the staff, so what we said back in August aged very well. Bankruptcy imminent? Microsoft fired many of its own "AI" staff earlier this year and Facebook is doing the same thing this week, as per many media reports (some are in Daily Links already).
The pump-and-dump Ponzi scheme is dependent on false assumptions about the future. The media feeds investment firms (or shareholders) with disinformation.
All this chatbot stuff has failed miserably (Bing is shrinking, they're already resorting to another rebrand). Well, it sure helped distract from tens of thousands of Microsoft layoffs, many shutdowns, and surging debt. Microsoft hiring a pair of people is pretty meaningless considering how much manpower they lost.
Anyway, on we go, improving the structure and layout of old pages as we move along. The archives aren't final, but at least they are complete. It's a lot of housekeeping after 17 years with the same PHP-based systems.
Back in July we broke some records [1, 2] and we estimate that this text is roughly the 40,000th 'blog' post. Yes, a CMS or production pipeline split into "old" and "new" makes it difficult to count. But we're somewhere around 40,000 (average of 2,352 per year over 18 years).█