You can insert a custom default prompt on pretty much every AI under the sun these days, not just Gemini

Yeah why are basically all models so sycophantic anyway. I'm so done with getting encouragement and appreciation of my choices even when they're clearly wrong.

I tried similar prompts but they didn't really work.

Oof TIL, thanks for the heads up that's a shame!

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/417269/archive-toda...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment...

https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-...

Some of us have, and some of us still use it. The functionality and the need for an archive not subject to the same constraints as the wayback machine and other institutions outweighs the blackhat hijinks and bickering between a blogger and the archive.is person/team.

My own ethical calculus is that they shouldn't be ddos attacking, but on the other hand, it's the internet equivalent of a house egging, and not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. It probably got gyrovague far more attention than they'd have gotten otherwise, so maybe they can cash in on that and thumb their nose at the archive.is people.

Regardless - maybe "we" shouldn't be telling people what sites to use or not use -if you want to talk morals and ethics, then you better stop using gmail, amazon, ebay, Apple, Microsoft, any frontier AI, and hell, your ISP has probably done more evil things since last tuesday than the average person gets up to in a lifetime, so no internet, either. And totally forget about cellular service. What about the state you live in, or the country? Are they appropriately pure and ethical, or are you going to start telling people they need to defect to some bastion of ethics and nobility?

Real life is messy. Purity tests are stupid. Use archive.is for what it is, and the value it provides which you can't get elsewhere, for as long as you can, because once they're unmasked, that sort of thing is gone from the internet, and that'd be a damn shame.

I can't find the claimed JS in the page source as of now, and also it displays just fine with JS disabled.

I’d be happy if people stop linking to paywalled sites in the first place. There’s usually a small blog on the same topic and ironically the small blogs poster here are better quality.

But otherwise, without an alternative, the entire thread becomes useless. We’d have even more RTFA, degrading the site even for people who pay for the articles. I much prefer keeping archive.today to that.

eh, both ArchiveToday and gyrovague are shit humans. Its really just a conflict in between two nerds not "other people".

They need to just hug it out and stop doxing each other lol

Sure - so is Google Chrome for abetting them with a browser, and Microsoft for not using their Windows spyware to call suicide hotline.

I don't empathize with any of these companies, but I don't trust them to solve mental health either.

Regular people would not be held liable for this. It would be a dubious case even if a human helped another human to do this.

Held criminally liable for what, exactly?

Many of us aren't, and it's why it's hard to blame the businesses like OpenAI for doing nothing.

The parent's jokey tone is unwarranted, but their overall point is sound. The more blame we assign to inanimate systems like ChatGPT, the more consent we furnish for inhumane surveillance.

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