Ahh then ur about to shit your pants in the new year they will be released in full on youtube. and combining a few story’s with the news anchorman in-between stiching them togeather coherently. Aiming for 11 min episodes.
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like this one!
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touché
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We humans don’t have the mental bandwidth that you have… Se why I want to upgrade?
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You are allowed to like the interface that you have acclimated to. But I would hope that you can understand that undermining established toolsets in order to force an ideological stance, which ignores those who actively use those tools, and which breaks the standards established by those tools, is a corruption. Browsers have worked a certain way for decades. We expect things, we have reasons to – because they make sense.
You know what exists that would fix this? A mobile page, or a mobile app – which is already forced on people. But to force desktop apps to function like they have a tiny touch screen and they are being used as a distraction instead of a tool, that is egregious. I want to be able to copy and paste threads into text editors so that I can edit them. I tried to do that with the local AI guide I wrote and found I had to write an entire script to query the discourse API page by page in order to download the guide I wrote, in an editable format, so that I could post it somewhere else. You know what happened when I had to deal with that? I stopped writing it.
Busted… lol
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You could have just used the print output;
forum.dangerousthings.com/t/local-ai-server-guide/25813/print
That gives you plain text, with pagination if the output gets exceedingly long.. just cancel the print dialog and there you have it.. easy copy / paste content.
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I just tried that with this thread and it gives me an error page. If I try it with the parent URL (5860) it takes me to a paginated display, and if I try to move to the end page by guessing a page number in the URL it times me out saying I am trying to access the page too often. So, how do I copy my text from this thread?
Hmm what error does it give? I was able to get the simplified version of both threads on my phone and desktop.
From that point I just select all.. copy.. done.
The first screenshot you are showing is a page from 2020. Where is this part of it? Can you find this post and copy everything up to where I started posting about the metric system?
this thread is extremely long.. >20k posts.. it actually paginates and the metric system content starts on page 21
https://forum.dangerousthings.com/t/the-anti-derailment-thread-hijacking-thread/5860/print?page=21
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Thanks for pointing out the fix. I think it is clear that even with workarounds, these constraints are specific design decisions which frustrate me, and I see no obvious reason why they exist but for the philosophy of the creator.
Hopefully my position makes sense in this light, and I don’t come off as someone who is relying entirely on emotion or on principled opposition.
I am definitely opinionated, but I like to think that those opinions hold some weight since they are not arbitrary nor trivial.
The beauty of software is that we can (sometimes) change it. I’m writing a little plugin called textify that will let you toggle how threads are output so they will
- be text only, no images or media.
- no pagination, just dump the entire thread.
- omit annoying things such as like counters, reacts, references, etc.
You should be able to just toggle this mode on in your user profile settings.
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There’s a leaderboard?
And I got on it?
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Yep,
AND
You already moved up from 3rd to 2nd
No Admins allowed, as there would be no chance of catching this guy
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All thanks to my magnetic penis personality I’m sure!
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I skimmed over things as I have enough stress IRL… Still is this forum stuff about being able to skim the website for data collection or AI training or something along those lines? About usability with JavaScript disabled?
Is that not a thing in the USofA?
NZ very similar to the UK, but ours is measured as 10grams of pure Alcohol, not sure why its not 10 millilitres like the UK do…
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I was sitting here thinking I can never show myself again for being such an unreasonable asshole and you go and do a thing like that? Now I have to figure out what to put in that gift basket I need to send you.
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