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Private equity milking another product dry.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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One of the more important knowledge repositories right now... and it's tied to a corporation. We should probably be supporting alternatives.
Anybody know of data backups? Do we have the whole thing on the internet archive?
Do we have the whole thing on the internet archive?
Maybe?
Another consideration is that it's probably a part of many LLM training datasets by now. In fact, I'd say the combination of bad moderation and AI have made Stack Overflow less attractive lately.
Stack overflow is still useful z it's just that the vast majority of answers are like 15-20 years old as most questions were already answered by then
The headline is a lie. Developers will be fine. One company will lose users. And rightly so.
They don't allow me to create an account because email restriction, VPN/IP restriction...
If they don't want content, that's their choice
Even if your in and have a history of good questions and responses it is still ridiculously hard to get a question accepted. Stackoverflow is dying due to its own choices and its driven many people away from it. They caused their own peak in 2014 and its amazing it took this long to decline.
Yeah, this is a problem with every single platform that becomes successful.
Eh, some manage to go around. Steam doesn't push this BS (but yea I guess they force you to pay an amount)
Proton mail also doesn't really go out of their way to check you... and Reddit is somewhat okay from what I remember
Every time I go to SO I have to deal with CloudFlare checks or captchas. I'm not genuinely not sure why, but it has kept me from clicking SO links from search engines first. Not even using a VPN. Kind of odd.
I’m sure they have all the heuristics in Cloudflare cranked up due to all programming model training aggressively digesting their content. Can’t blame them, honestly.
sure we can
Wow amazing stuff
so the ai kills off all its food sources and then what
Make sure users trust it so much they can no longer discern hallucinations and lies from reality, then keep the AI training on content generated by itself.
MSDN subscription
Either Butlerian Jihad or Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.
time for a jihad
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