Chris Remington
Volunteer amateur systems administrator for Beehaw. Stay-at-home dad. Outdoor enthusiast.
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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOPMto Technology@beehaw.org•Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel3·17 days agoI used to love that software!
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off91·2 months agoThe general public truly are lazy consumer idiots, aren’t they?
Yes, of course they are!
I agree. I grew up using hard copy encyclopedias at libraries. It is incredible now to have all of this at our fingertips at home.
Can you give an example of an article with an error that you tried to correct?
This was 6 years ago so I cannot recall precisely which pages. However, I just skimmed over about 15 pages that I thought would be riddled with errors. To my surprise, I only found one instance where there was a ‘citation needed’ mark and could find no major errors…maybe a few little splitting hairs examples but nothing serious.
So, it appears that improvements have been made over the past 6 years. On the other hand, I only looked over roughly 15 pages.
Probably the same caution would be true for any encyclopedia. Namely, these can be pretty good starting points but not for serious scholarly research.
My self and others in this field tried for about 6 months to no avail. We gave up…they didn’t want to hear it.
I have studied academic biblical scholarship for over 30 years. All of Wikipedia’s biblical pages are riddled with errors. IMO, Wikipedia is a decent starting point but that would be it.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMto Space@beehaw.org•Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 Commander Who Thrived Under Pressure, Dies at 973·2 months agoThankfully, there’s NASA’s Artemis program that began in 2017: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis/
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMto Space@beehaw.org•Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 Commander Who Thrived Under Pressure, Dies at 979·2 months agoHe had a long life. Good for him.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•The Psychology of Choice: Would You Pick 'Luck' or 'Money'?1·2 months agoThis doesn’t belong in this community (i.e. Technology). Next time post this in Ask Beehaw or Chat. Thanks.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•The Psychology of Choice: Would You Pick 'Luck' or 'Money'?1·2 months agoI’m in the exact same boat as you.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•How Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 Will Change Our Phones11·3 months ago…no mention of iOS 26’s new call screening feature - which asks unknown callers for their name and purpose of the call and displays this on the screen before your phone starts to ring.
Nice! Thanks for pointing this out!
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgto Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•I created an open source barter facilitator application and I am wondering if it is the future of commerce10·3 months ago…money isn’t the root of all evil…
That’s because it isn’t…to explain, many people misquote a verse from the biblical texts.
1 Timothy 6:10: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.”
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•A few people are ruining the internet for the rest of us101·3 months agoThis is such an incredibly important message for us to understand. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. I can only hope that more and more people learn this.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers3·3 months agoThanks. I appreciate the info and effort.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers4·3 months agoOK. Fair enough.
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers1·3 months agoUnfortunately, archive.is has moved behind Cloudflare, subjecting readers to having their reading habits (both the articles and the referring communities) tracked at a large scale.
How do you know this?
What about https://ghostarchive.org/?
Chris Remington@beehaw.orgMto Technology@beehaw.org•The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers31·3 months agoWould you edit your post and add the following archive link to the body, please?
There is Loops and Skylight.