Am i the only person that likes the tldr bot?
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I like it because it means I don't have to go to the actual article most of the time to read what it says
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Especially because of the paywalls, cookies, ads (for subs/articles) and tracking
I also like it but it's not a true TLDR bot
Depends, can it hop pay walls? Wish Lemmy had a no pay wall linking policy or at least a warning system. If it can summarize articles behind pay walls it is my friend.
Do agree with OP though, wish it could be even more concise.
Here it does a great job of reducing a text of 174 words to 172 words. 👍
(I do not want to complain too much. Usually it works and it is short enough for me to quickly read it.)
Best of all you do not need to click the link, load the website, enable JavaScript because there is nothing without it and then tap the cookie banner away disabling all of the cookies first.
i see a future where we no longer access websites directly because websites got so bloated that using a bot to give us the content instead is just way easier
A bot that would send us the content as email, which we'd read using Emacs. I can see that happening.
RSS to emacs possible?
Isn't that just chatGPT?
And don't get me started on "legitimate interest" cookies. Legitimate to whom?
Actually you usually need to have Javascript off, 90% of news websites paywalls are just Javascript so turning it off let's you read the article.
There are quite a many websites just showing a white page if JavaScript is off...
Just shortening "Republican US Senator" to "Senator," nice.
You actually found it. I was too lazy, bit I still wanted to know. Thanks!
It was easy enough. Just two clicks and comparing the opening sentences.
We need a better tldr bot and also a tsdfln (too short doesn't feel like a novel) bot.
This. I mentioned this a couple of times, IMO a Tl;DR shouldn't exceed 150 words, but the bot's author disagreed with me. It's not a TL;DR if it takes up half the screen.
You can get a shorter TLDR by scimming it But having to load some bloated article with pop ups and autoplay videos is worse So I would rather have a long TLDR than it being too short
People really want TLDR bot to effectively give clickbait titles with no context
You just need a bigger screen
This. It's totally fine on my 8K 50 inch screen.
i second this person's testimony, your honour!
The posts take up so little space on my FOSSung Infinity Note 420. Can't get enough of the 69" UV Pico LED display 😍
To be fair, a 1k word article can be TL;DR'd to < 150 words much easier than one with 30k words.
~~The bot uses smmry.com to make its summaries, it would be easy to make a fork that lowered the amount of sentences in the summary, but it might lose some important details.~~
EDIT: oops, completely wrong bot, I was looking at another lemmy TL;DR bot on github
EDIT2: should still be quite simple to fork the current one, but I couldn't find where to reduce the number of sentences
Honestly I just read the TL;DR bot in lieu of the article itself so I don't have to think about paywall & such