Another option that usually works is just disabling JavaScript for that site.

Well, to be fair, “Why can’t websites just remember that I said no to cookies?”

Exactly as ordered. Good job, private.

Yeah, I know. But “what does greek mythology say about using windows” would have been less funny.

If by that you mean connected my computer account to a Microsoft account, nope, I did no such thing.

That’s weird. I don’t get the prompt at all, but I do have a button in the lower left corner that says “Sign In.” Maybe it’s because I’m on Windows 11?

I wouldn’t be surprised, but I’m not convinced downvoting comments has any effect on YouTube.

The names and PFPs still give it away if you know about them.

They’re not just “casually” stealing comments. They steal a random comment from the video, then have a bunch of other bots give it a bunch of thumbs up so that it appears towards the top and accumulates more upvotes than most human comments make. 95% of the time it seems, the real comment has one or two upvotes and is buried so far you have to scroll multiple pages to reach it.

I suspect there’s a law requiring it, because I don’t think corporations would choose to be that nice.

Ah, no worries. I guess I just have one of those faces. Have a better day.

Yeah, I did, I’m just saying that unless you have a class of diligent students (in which case good on ya,) a good chunk of them will choose to ignore it and just read the easy version. It’s hard enough to get kids to read what’s assigned, it’ll be harder to get them to read two versions of the same thing.

I’m not upset, I’m just genuinely confused that you implied that “real literature” and “for entertainment” are separate categories. I always thought of these books as being intended for entertainment, just in an artsier/more intellectual way than Marvel movies and bideo bames. Your comment made me think you thought of them as something for intellectual enrichment rather than enjoyment.

I’m also confused why you interpreted my comment in such a hostile way, but that’s another conversation probably not worth turning into an argument.

EDIT: Oh, did you think I was saying they’re not for entertainment?

Sounds to me like it will get a lot of kids reading only the easy version even if they’re capable of more. You’re basically giving them the cliffnotes.

I see what you mean, but sometimes you want a particular story, not just something on your level.

These books aren’t for entertainment?

Two wars can exist simultaneously.

I know it’s dead. I still have it, and it still does all I want from an IDE.

Well, LLMs are, at least. But also, autocomplete is already AI, so really LLMs are just glorified AI. And that checks out, they are the ones that get all the glory*. Everything else is just spooky algorithms.

*Except for walking robots and stuff like that.