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Comment on No Clicks, No Content: The Unsustainable Future of AI Search by Tim

Tim — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 03:16:53 +0000

Nice article, so true.
There's more to that. People behavior changed too. They don't comment anymore on the blogs, but prefer to rant on Reddit or Facebook and are surprised that authors can't follow all those places.

Comment on No Clicks, No Content: The Unsustainable Future of AI Search by kevin176

kevin176 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:11:22 +0000

In reply to Tom.

I did. People will still produce content. Bloggers were producing content before you could make significant ad revenue.

Comment on No Clicks, No Content: The Unsustainable Future of AI Search by Tom

Tom — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:08:42 +0000

In reply to kevin176.

"Why not have a tool extract the useful information?" – did you even read the article?

Comment on No Clicks, No Content: The Unsustainable Future of AI Search by MissQuasar

MissQuasar — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:44:12 +0000

The cost of LLMs is really too high at the moment, and revenue just can't be increased. Hopefully, there will be breakthroughs in energy and materials technology in the near future; otherwise, it might be difficult for us to advance to the next stage of AI anytime soon.

Comment on No Clicks, No Content: The Unsustainable Future of AI Search by kevin176

kevin176 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:33:24 +0000

Unfortunately there is useful content buried in between layers of ads and pop-ups. I don’t want to visit these sites and waste time closing and scrolling. Why not have a tool extract the useful information?

Legislation isn’t a sufficient option. It only hinders companies operating in those jurisdictions, giving their competition in other countries an advantage. For example, US companies would start losing ground against Chinese companies.

[edit for disqus issues]

Comment on The best trackball lubricant by Brett Bates

Brett Bates — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:24:18 +0000

In reply to George McCune.

MIND BLOWN!!!!

Comment on The best trackball lubricant by norakat

norakat — Sun, 29 May 2022 21:50:49 +0000

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Comment on How to Make a PDF Look Scanned Using ImageMagick and Automator in macOS by Dylan Gordon

Dylan Gordon — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 14:28:29 +0000

Thanks for this, very cool!

I opted to use an Automator print plugin to smooth my workflow:

Open document in Preview.
Annotate with signature.
Print, choose plugin (I called it Look Scanned).
The ‘scanned’ version opens in Preview when it’s done, then save as you like.

To do this I added:
Run Shell Script action, pass input as arguments:
set -e


export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

for file in "$@"; do

  base=${file%.pdf}

  base=$base"_scanned.pdf"
convert -density 200 "$file" -alpha remove -rotate 0.4 -attenuate 0.2 +noise Multiplicative +repage -monochrome -compress group4 -depth 2 "$base"
echo "$base"

done

And then Open Finder Items action, open with Preview.

Also tweaked the convert a bit for more rotation, noise and reduced colour depth.

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Avnsih kumar — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 08:59:01 +0000

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Comment on How to Make a PDF Look Scanned Using ImageMagick and Automator in macOS by ArseniyPanfilov

ArseniyPanfilov — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 20:27:11 +0000

This is great and gonna save me a lot of time – thanks!
Just a note: for a shell script to work properly you might need to specify “shell” and set “pass input” to “as arguments” (in my case shell is empty by default and “pass input” is set as “to stdin”).