1st August: Classic crunch crawl

 00:00 Introduction and Welcome

01:33 AI Crawlers and Content Scraping

04:17 TechCrunch and the State of Tech Journalism

06:12 Retro Tech: Classic Mac OS and Image Formats

08:25 Web Browsing Privacy Enhancements

10:08 Sleep Tracking and Orthosomnia

11:05 Sign Off

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AI crawlers need to be more respectful

about.readthedocs.com

There’s a growing backlash against AI crawlers consuming websites, videos, and other content with little respect for robots.txt, copyright issues, or the spikes of traffic that hosts have to pay for. Now, more people are talking about the impact.

Apple Nvidia Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI

wired.com

See above…

Tech Crunched: How the go-to site for startup news lost its way

keepgoingpod.com

This honestly feels like a summation of the trials and tribulations of tech journalism over the past 20 years, seen through the focus of one of the best-known sites. To some anyway.

Orthosomnia

en.wikipedia.org

I am a terrible sleeper, but one of the best pieces of advice I read is to stop worrying about it. In fact, I found out this week that worrying about sleep now has a medical term.

Managing Classic Mac OS resources in ResEdit

eclecticlight.co

Sometimes, I miss the hackability of classic Mac OS. Then I remember how unstable it was 😬

Here’s why you have to deal with so many annoying webPs now

pcgamer.com

Turns out I am not the only one endlessly irritated by this odd image format that pops up more and more and never feels like a “real” image.

Artifacting

tedium.co

On the subject of webP, what’s the history of the JPEG? Maybe one of the most successful image formats of our time.

Private Browsing 2.0

webkit.org

When is private browsing truly private? When it’s version 2!