I don't understand why Anna's Archive has such a convoluted donation system. At first glance it looks like it's trying to push a subscription on you, which is ironic considering aversion to subscriptions is exactly what's driving people to AA in the first place. I found no convenient single-link crypto donate button where I could just send some money whenever I want.
> I don't understand why Anna's Archive has such a convoluted donation system.
What? It's one page with a bunch of very clear options.
> At first glance it looks like it's trying to push a subscription on you...
On the one hand, fair. On the other hand, this is prominently displayed on the donation page:
Be aware that while the memberships on this page are “per month”, they are one-time donations (non-recurring). See the Donation FAQ.
Additionally, Q&A #1 on the Donations FAQ page are:
Do memberships automatically renew?
Memberships do not automatically renew. You can join for as long or short as you want.
Even if we're too busy to read, we can think about how they would manage to set up a recurring cryptocurrency payment without possession of one's wallet keys and become enlightened.
> I found no convenient single-link crypto donate button where I could just send some money whenever I want.
From their Donation FAQ:
Can I make a donation without becoming a member?
Sure thing. We accept donations of any amount on this Monero (XMR) address: 88gS7a8aHj5EYhCfYnkhEmYXX3MtR35r3YhWdWXwGLyS4fkXYjkupcif6RY5oj9xkNR8VVmoRXh1kQKQrZBRRc8PHLWMgUR.
Yeah, what OP is bizarrely describing as "push a subscription" with a (completely false) "im 12 and this is deep" insight about Anna Archive becoming the very thing they swore to destroy, can accurately be explained as them trying to ensure you get the benefits entitled by your donation level via your access key (linked to zero personal information).
I donate in 3 or 6 months chunks typically, if I forget, I don't get hassled to resubscribe or anything (nor could they even contact me for any reason), I just lose those bonus download benefits until I do it again. I could also generate a new key each time but it's convenient keeping the same one in my password manager so I like the way they do it now, basically works just like LWN.net.
Asking people publicly tends to challenge their ego and bring up defensiveness. It would fail a lot more than subtle manipulation like this, and instead bring additional confrontation.
Speaking up would have a higher failure rate. Speaking up overtly stimulates the annoying person's defensiveness and propensity to challenge back. Subtle manipulation always works better.
> Did you walk over? Did you say hi? Did you lower yourself to be around their height? Give them a second or two to get used to you?
I personally detest the kind of people who behave like this. It all just exudes deliberate fakeness; if anyone were to try this on me I'll only be irritated more than anything else.
The code is still technically "written" by employed programmers who only happen to be using the "autocomplete tools" of Claude Code and Codex. So the code written is still the employer's IP under typical employment terms. Nothing changes on that front.
Thanks for the reply. I’ve mostly heard that images generated by AI are considered non-copyrightable (prompts are written by a human). Would the situation be different for code compared to images, since both are created with generative AI tools? Or does it depend on whether the generated artifact is created by an individual versus within a company? Thanks.
The talk about AI being uncopyrightable is mostly cope from AI haters. The default assumption is going to be that everything is copyrighted because some human creativity was used somewhere in the process. To actually claim that something is public domain you'd have to prove that no human creativity was ever present which would be really difficult.
"They stand to benefit from it" how!? The only thing they'll get is immediate geopolitical scorn which could very well escalate to mass military action considering how much TSMC now means for the world's economy. A single temporary shutdown of the fabs would mean a global economic apocalypse. They'd be inviting all powers of the world to attack them for no upside whatsoever, because it will all be over by the time they figure out how to leverage the fabs themselves.
For the last time.. Word (the program very popularly used by many reporters across the world to write articles) automatically autocorrects hyphens to em-dashes according to the default loaded grammar rules for En-US. The existence of em-dashes in an article does NOT immediately imply GenAI slop.
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