Well so the Nazis founded VW with confiscated union capital, and after the war control of the company was basically handed over to the union to make things right.

robots.txt is a way of leaving the door unlocked but kindly asking bots to stay outside.

Which in a law-abiding society should be enough. It's also how we do things in the real world in many cases - i.e. here you can just write on your mailbox "no ads" and companies have to respect that.

Even when we do actually put physical locks on things they are mostly there to show that someone breaking in did so intentionally and not at all designed to prevent motivated attackers.

> here you can just write on your mailbox "no ads" and companies have to respect that

Where do you live? In the US it’s actually illegal for anyone except the USPS to deliver to a mailbox.

You might be interested to know that entering an unlocked door into a space you do not have permission to be in is still illegal.

You might be interested to know that the “illegality” depends on the intent. If I rest on your unlocked door handle, it opens, I enter, it’s an accident.

Sorry, what? In this scenario are you claiming that you accidentally fell inside the restricted area because you were leaning on the door? Or are you claiming that you accidentally opened the door and then walked through intentionally? In the former case, you are guilty of breaking and entering in most US jurisdictions if you don’t promptly get out. Any sane court would likely agree an accidental trespass is probably not a criminal act, but it’s not an accident if you stay. In the latter case, you’re clearly trespassing illegally.

Also this has gotten pretty far away from the web scraping scenario. There’s no door accidentally opening here.

Oops, I just accidentally fell into every website. Don't know how that happened ...

Which works when you live in normal civil times, when you live in jungle times people and robots will do whatever they want and the most powerful will get their way.

Without knowing details I guess that ai is changing the game a lot and a lot of 'capital' in the form of zero days has been destroyed.

If this is the case it's good news for everyone else besides NSO and Co

or the engagement spooked them

also interested

uh isn't the font size kinda independant from the font style?

Not entirely. The font "size" is the height of each character, not the width they take up or the stroke thickness. So some fonts will have narrow characters & display more characters horizontally than fonts with wider characters.

It is, but noone serious has time for appreciating latest trends in web typography, so we just hit the reader mode on load.

now i'm curious. care to share you're settings?

Sure. The glyph replacements match the "plain" style of SF Mono, Inter, etc.

https://pastebin.com/d3RzBR6B

I hope the water comes to the city through a pipe and not with trucks on roads.

I believe they have referred to the transportation possibilities the water allows rather than the possibility to transport water (which was possible at scale way earlier)

but every behaviour has a cost. In cast of flight altitude its energy and distance to food, water, mating zones.

Darwin started with survival of the "fit". It changed to "fittest" in later editions.

People focus on the wrong issue so most quotes about evolution are highly misleading: the keyword should be about reproducing. Survival is almost irrelevant. Darwin awards in particular should never be given to anyone with kids (unless they kill their kids too).

"Most grandkids" is good but not catchy.

Or Idiocracy "evolution began to favor those who reproduced the most".

I agree to some extent but I don't think you can really separate the two. You have to survive long enough to reproduce enough. For almost all species, reproduction implies a non trivial amount of survival.

Edit: actually, "almost all species" is not right. Maybe "almost all interesting species"... which is admittedly too subjective a take.

Having a cost and being too costly aren't the same thing though.

Going up there's currents, going down... gravity. Sure it costs energy, but there's bound to be a tradeoff. Travel distance? Sight range?

It costs something metabolically to be able to survive that high up.

a bi-cycle?