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PhazonLink posted:hot take, in addition to account creation fees, i think micro transaction fees uploading content should also be a thing. Mayube we can make a "chain" of cryptographically signed "blocks" for it?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The first screenshot has one Wikipedia search result plus an infobox. An infobox is not a search result. Furthermore, the second screenshot shows full paragraphs from Wikipedia, while the first shows a couple of sentences. The same paragraph from wikipedia is on the righthand side of the Google result. Either way, neither picture is "clogged with SEO spam", they're just presenting the same information in different places Your original post said quote:Notice that the top of the Google results page is a synthesized textbox,
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Arsenic Lupin posted:(splitting this up to provide page break) You scrolled past all the DDG pictures of random red dogs that take up a 3rd of the screen and the link to "16 red dog breeds that turn heads" in the top 3 results The top 3 results on Google (for me) are the wikipedia article, the IMDB page, and a link to the movie on Amazon prime while DDG is the wikipedia article, the IMDB page, and that random article about red dogs. The Google results here are clearly better if I'm looking for information about the movie.
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Jose Valasquez posted:If SA is any indication a $10 fee for posting hosed up poo poo is not going to stop people I don't agree with this. Sure, there's a fair share of shitposting here but nothing like a Reddit thread or certainly your average comments section. Moderation may have more to do with that but, by and large, I find this site to be more readable and easier to navigate than a lot of poo poo I find out there. A lot of threads here genuinely offer useful links and first hand information for the topic(s) at hand. I like it here.
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There's one clearly ill person who goes off-meds and registers 10 accounts in a week and has probably spent about 2 grand on accounts so far (if not more), but they're definitely an outlier.
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anecdotal evidence , when multiplayer games lower their price, Griefing and trolling increases, and WHEN it becomes freemium or free to play a floodgate opens. with another friction gate being how easy accounts are to make.
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Looks like another group of tech bros have played BioShock and taken it as aspirational rather than cautionary: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/style/praxis-city-dryden-brown.html The whole thing is worth a read for how dumb it all is but the following stood out: quote:The guide denounces “enemies of vitality,” who “reject what they consider the optional ‘European beauty standards.” It goes on to extol “traditional, European/Western beauty standards on which the civilized world, at its best points, has always found success.”
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npr had a bit about OpenAI's leadership drama and they mention the weird lol at techbros and their tokens and shibboleths of """"""superiority""""""""".
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I am not sure if it's OpenAI being weird or NPR making a big mystical deal about a silly chess variant.
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You can explain bughouse in a couple sentences. Nerdy? Sure. It'd make a lovely shibboleth tho
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Bughouse is fun. Is it a techbro shibboleth now?
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The folks I knew who were in chess club in college definitely played bughouse too, I don't think it's all that obscure. I don't think it's all that much more telling than playing chess in the first place, or the stories or Settlers of Catan being a trend for a certain group of executives or whatever
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Jose Valasquez posted:Either way, neither picture is "clogged with SEO spam", they're just presenting the same information in different places The infoboxes can be turned off. Settings -> Labs
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BougieBitch posted:The folks I knew who were in chess club in college definitely played bughouse too, I don't think it's all that obscure. I don't think it's all that much more telling than playing chess in the first place, or the stories or Settlers of Catan being a trend for a certain group of executives or whatever Catan is such bad taste in games though. Like I’ll play it once a year in family gatherings if they want, but I’d rather be playing even Monopoly.
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fellas is it weird to (checks notes) play games with peers to have fun?
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thekeeshman posted:
I have to assume that the elevator pitch he has for this is 14 words long and the words sum to 88 letters.
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Boris Galerkin posted:fellas is it weird to (checks notes) play games with peers to have fun? The part about having fun is weird.
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Platystemon posted:Catan is such bad taste in games though. Oh, absolutely agree, but it is entry-level and not really all that out of the ordinary for nerds in general, not some signifier for silicon valley. Same is true for bughouse chess as far as I can tell - it makes them nerds, but it isn't some weird gatekeeping thing in all likelihood, just the exact sort of hobby you would expect
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mllaneza posted:I am once again asking anyone who complains about Google's results being trash "lately" to run the same search in an Incognito session and report back on any differences in results. I broadly dislike search engines in general now, but wanted to hop in on this and see how bad it was. Here's some interesting poo poo mostly because I wasn't expecting the outcome. Incognito "information about Christmas" in Google on Chrome  Non-Incognito "information about Christmas" in Google on Chrome  Duck Duck Go in Google Chrome  My biggest surprise is how different "logged in" Google Chrome is from Incognito form, honestly. Incognito delivers literally no non-sponsored results without scrolling, including no sidebar with any real information either. I also checked to see whether my "C" vs "c" Christmas mattered after I realized I'd done that, and the results were the same. Logged-in was more or less fine. Duck Duck Go was fine except for the useless recent news section. Incognito Google Chrome was laughably bad. Sundae fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Dec 13, 2023 |
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Chess doesn’t have enough strategic complexity. The techbro meta is all about Polytopia.
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Okay, okay, we get it, you're poly The only poly I am is Roly poly
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I'll say it again, you can turn Google's infoboxes off.
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Platystemon posted:Chess doesn’t have enough strategic complexity. I enjoyed Polytopia, but haven't played in a bit and I enjoyed it because it feels like a cut down to 20 mins a game Civ1. I never really thought of it as having strategic complexity over chess though.
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I’m joking about this. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1500470661382172673
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Sundae posted:I broadly dislike search engines in general now, but wanted to hop in on this and see how bad it was...  Like mllaneza said, you can hide some of the shittier parts of Google by poking through the Labs and settings, but that requires logging in to a Google account (or permanently accepting cookies at a minimum), so so it doesn't do anything about the personalised results. This is really only a concern for the, like, ten of us who don't have a Google account.
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Sundae posted:Logged-in was more or less fine. Duck Duck Go was fine except for the useless recent news section. Incognito Google Chrome was laughably bad. Is your adblocker enabled in incognito mode?
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Mumblyfish posted:If you want a basic search engine that just gives good results, I really like to use DuckDuckGo's HTML-only mode. It just presents paginated search results with no personalisation or cutaway sections. I wish more websites were as fast and purpose-driven as this. JavaScript is a loaded gun and web developers can't be trusted with it, bring back the <marquee> element and gifs of cool skeletons jamming out to MIDI renditions of the Simpsons theme. Is there a way to make it so that Firefox uses DuckDuckGo's HTML mode automatically? (like if you just type your search string into the address bar)
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Gort posted:Is there a way to make it so that Firefox uses DuckDuckGo's HTML mode automatically? (like if you just type your search string into the address bar) This bit of FF documentation should help. You only need the three-step "Add a search engine from the Search bar" option. Turn on the search bar, go to DDG HTML, click the magnifying glass with the green plus symbol on your search bar to add it. Then go to Settings > Search. Turn off the search bar if you don't want to keep it, and make DuckDuckGo HTML your default search engine.
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I think this is a good move and all car companies should follow suit https://jalopnik.com/gm-drops-apple-carplay-android-auto-unsafe-phone-1851093013 GM Says It's Dropping Apple CarPlay And Android Auto Because They're Unsafe I have an old car but rented a newer one not long ago and it amazed me how distracting the screen was. Could be I'm simply not used to it but the thing really was an eye magnet. We're told not to be on our phones and drive while distracted but there's a proportionately huge TV screen right there in the center console that uses another device to operate. Maybe make it so the car has to be stopped or in park for the screen to operate but not sure how practical that is either.
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BiggerBoat posted:I think this is a good move and all car companies should follow suit CarPlay is a standard, and doesn't need completely diffferent implementations for different makes and models. It's a much worse situation to have god knows how many apps instead. Carmakers are really bad at this kind of thing. cat botherer fucked around with this message at 13:29 on Dec 13, 2023 |
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BiggerBoat posted:I think this is a good move and all car companies should follow suit
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It’s just GM making bad-faith excuses about why they want to force people to use their own infotainment. They want to monetize the in-car experience more and more, and they can’t do that if you use phone mirroring. Which is a shame because GM was on the forefront of CarPlay/AA integration when it first came out.
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cat botherer posted:That's actually a bad thing. Car makers want all their own bespoke infotainment systems for more control/"branding." They will be worse, more buggy, more insecure, and steal your data. This allows for all kinds of paid subscriptions for updates and general functionality - something Toyota and others have been big into lately. Vegetable posted:You didn’t think this through You're both right. Sorry
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My sister has a car that has a proprietry satnav system built in. The maps are out of date. To update them they want £300. £300 to plug in a usb and hit update.
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cat botherer posted:That's actually a bad thing. Car makers want all their own bespoke infotainment systems for more control/"branding." They will be worse, more buggy, more insecure, and steal your data. This allows for all kinds of paid subscriptions for updates and general functionality - something Toyota and others have been big into lately. I wish there wasn't such a thing as an infotainment system at all. My car has a hole for a DIN sized radio and that's the way I like it. Yes it's a cassette player, what's your point?
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BiggerBoat posted:You're both right. Sorry
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Mumblyfish posted:Like mllaneza said, you can hide some of the shittier parts of Google by poking through the Labs and settings, but that requires logging in to a Google account (or permanently accepting cookies at a minimum), so so it doesn't do anything about the personalised results. This is really only a concern for the, like, ten of us who don't have a Google account. You can turn off personalized search results, but it does require logging in
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Log in for the logged out experience Facebook has a similar thing where if you want to invoke the EU right to be forgotten and remove your shadow profile (pinky swear of course, nobody can verify they yeeted your poo poo), you need to first create an account.
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cat botherer posted:turns out the peak of infotainment systems was having an MP3 player plugged into a cassette deck with an adapter. I think my 2015 CRV is the sweet spot. Bluetooth and a small screen that displays track tags. I usually leave my phone in my pocket while driving and it picks up whatever podcast or YouTube video I was listening to.
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I'd argue that moving every regularly used function like aircon controls, lighting, etc to any kind of touchscreen is 10 million times more distracting that AA or Carplay. You don't fiddle with AA/Carplay much while driving and it supports voice commands, you glance at a map and ask it to play Joe Rogan latest vomitcast. You do spend way more time looking away from what's Infront of you to make sure you hit the exact right control for your heater though.
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