Do we know how big the file is?

Why does a flight simulator of all things need to be a live service game?

Well if I was doing it I probably would be trying to focus on browser emulation to avoid having to dig into those sorts of details. It sounds like OP is a beginner and needs a simple method.

IIRC it should be able to be made to work since it does everything a browser does, found this search result, though it has been a while since I used it myself at all. Another thing you might try that has worked for me is iMacros, that’s a little simpler and more basic than Selenium but should work for what you say you want to do.

The reason to use Selenium is if the website you want to scrape uses javascript in a way that inhibits getting content without a full browser environment. BeautifulSoup is just a parser, it can’t solve that problem.

Arguments (especially political/ideological ones) framed as personal advice

Ok, but I would say that these concerns are all small potatoes compared to the potential for the general public gaining the ability to query a system with synthesized expert knowledge obtained from scraping all academically relevant documents. If you’re wondering about something and don’t know what you don’t know, or have any idea where to start looking to learn what you want to know, a LLM is an incredible resource even with caveats and limitations.

Of course, it would be better if it could also directly reference and provide the copyrighted/paywalled sources it draws its information from at runtime, in the interest of verifiably accurate information. Fortunately, local models are becoming increasingly powerful and lower barrier of entry to work with, so the legal barriers to such a thing existing might not be able to stop it for long in practice.

The OP tweet seems to be leaning pretty hard on the “AI bad” sentiment. If LLMs make academic knowledge more accessible to people that’s a good thing for the same reason what Aaron Swartz was doing was a good thing.

Well, what’s the modern equivalent of an Army explosives manual to remix into dangerous misinformation?

The company being successful probably wasn’t doing humanity any favors anyway

Anti-money laundering provisions in the EU have been adjusted several times though

Adjusted to give more leeway? Can you cite a source on this happening

Better but still pretty bad, in that case can only hope the software/trading ecosystems for p2p improve enough to be more generally viable and that once that happens there won’t be reactive legislation to stamp it out.

Because of inflation, it’s not going to stay 3k. All rules of this type have fixed amounts that never get updated and every year encompass more transactions.

Supposedly this legislation also bans anonymous cryptocurrency.

3090s are ideal because the most important factor is vram, and those are at the top of the plateau for vram until you get into absurdly expensive server hardware. Expect around 3 seconds for generating a 512x512 image or 4 words per second generating text at around GPT 3.5 quality.

Why do you need special qualifications to work for Door Dash lol

Youtube’s actual website usually doesn’t even work for me anymore. The page takes a really long time to load and often gets stuck and doesn’t load at all.

Everyone moving to open protocols and companies like Reddit, Twitter, Meta going bankrupt

Being addicted to the internet

AI has honestly made me a much more powerful Linux user