ConstipatedWatson
@ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world
- Comment on Algebraic Topology 2 weeks ago:
I know it’s a meme, but I can’t resist saying that if you check out his website, you’ll see he has all of his books and drafts available entirely for free and he also says he’s agreed with the publisher to cap the book’s price to something reasonable (which used to be true, I haven’t checked now).
He’s also nice in person of you talk to him!
It’s too bad that the meme is right and his legacy will be not having given solution to any problem 😁
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 1 month ago:
Operation Mindcrime is a gem!
- Comment on YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking 2 months ago:
Silence!
Don’t tell the holy secret to the world!
- Comment on We are beings made of atoms in the universe, who are studying atoms in the universe 2 months ago:
Whoa dude!
PS This is a great shower thought!!!
- Comment on Unreal Tournament 2004 20 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective 2 months ago:
This game was really awesome! I spent so many hours playing online with whoever. It had several awesome arenas.
Now you make me want to play it again!
- Comment on Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet 3 months ago:
You’re right about Sci-Hub because of their Indian lawsuit which is very important to them, but I didn’t know that Anna’s Archive was a repository of scientific journals. Is it? I know Library Genesis (or LibGen) has a lot of scientific textbooks, but I didn’t know it had papers. Does it?
Anyhow, Anna’s Archive and LibGen are super awesome too!
- Comment on Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet 3 months ago:
- Comment on Lemmy's Image Problem 3 months ago:
This link has been posted and discussed on Reddit too.
Of course, we shouldn’t care about what people on Reddit think (and I noticed this post by chance since I log on there very rarely now), but some users in the thread genuinely ask about joining Lemmy and so I guess it’s useful to know about possible obstacles to trying it that they may perceive.
- Comment on Playing GameCube classics, but in 4K on a Mac with PlayStation controllers, just like Nintendo intended. 4 months ago:
- Comment on Get ready — your Google Workspace subscription is about to see an unwelcome price hike 4 months ago:
I wish salaries everywhere went up with inflation and so we wouldn’t have to feel the pinch…
I know, I’m saying trivialities…
- Comment on Social networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurch 4 months ago:
Unfortunately, when we sign up to their EULAs we “willingly” give everything up… So technically it ends up being legally theirs 🥺
- Comment on Social networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurch 4 months ago:
Long live Lemmy!
- Comment on 🚨SIGNIFICANT, POSITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT🚨The European Mathmatical Society working with research libraries have found a way to make ALL of the research journals they publish open access, with no APC 4 months ago:
I’m Ron Burgundy?
- Comment on 🚨SIGNIFICANT, POSITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT🚨The European Mathmatical Society working with research libraries have found a way to make ALL of the research journals they publish open access, with no APC 4 months ago:
Thanks!!!
- Comment on 🚨SIGNIFICANT, POSITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT🚨The European Mathmatical Society working with research libraries have found a way to make ALL of the research journals they publish open access, with no APC 4 months ago:
Good guy EMS!
I can’t open the Mastodon link yet (not sure why) so I can’t yet understand why this would be. Still, awesome if confirmed!
- Comment on How Quora Died 4 months ago:
Here’s hoping at some point search engines will return Lemmy links when people look for answers, but we’re not there yet
- Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature 4 months ago:
I tried using it three days ago and had to resort to the Wayback Machine instead. Thanks Google!
- Comment on Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March 5 months ago:
… And so it begins…
- Comment on Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely? 5 months ago:
So you’re texting while driving, uh?
We should all report you, but we’re too curious to know the source of perpetual motion that’s been powering you since May!
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 5 months ago:
If you wait in front of an empty screen it’s much more pleasant than being in front of visual and audio spam drilling into your head.
It’s of course true that YouTube can’t support a website for free, so it would be the correct thing to watch some ads: problems arising are that (A) some ads are malicious (either as misinformation or as viruses or as links to those), (B) they’ve grown from a reasonable amount to an unreasonable one and often interrupted at the worst possible time)
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 5 months ago:
Good things come to those who wait (and block ads)
- Comment on Google may let you choose which of its services are linked, thanks to EU 5 months ago:
Good Guy EU
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 5 months ago:
Hahahahaha, you’re right. My choice of words is very debatable, but it’s true that the moment you had to make a choice was implemented well and I was very concentrated in the heat of the moment
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 5 months ago:
I can’t speak for the other games mentioned in this thread, but in the case of Heavy Rain it was very enjoyable that often you had to make quick decisions or the game would choose for you
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 5 months ago:
Wait, what did you just say? So Half Life 3 is confirmed! Yay!
- Comment on How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 5 months ago:
Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
Thanks! So it’s some sort of guidelines Google and other search engines laid out which can be exploited to maximize visibility. Very annoying indeed
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
I’m late to the party and I don’t understand several things I read in the comments, so I need to ask for clarification.
What is Google’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? I looked it up, but the websites StartPage was giving me were not useful (probably ads or spam sites). Is finding these ads/spam sites the problem?
How is this a search engine’s fault? I mean, if the internet is now made by walled gardens and spam sites, search engines have trouble finding something really relevant, but how is it their fault?
I should add I navigate logged out on Firefox with the Ublock Origin and NoScript extensions (among others) so I at least don’t see Google’s ads.
I agree there are some searches where it’s next to impossible to find informed sites from spam ones: just a week ago I was looking for “Best Nintendo Switch games released in 2023” and I got lots of dubious blogs, and even when I got hits from IGN, GameSpot or PcMag sites, I realized I don’t know if any of these last sites are genuine or bought out (and checked the Wikipedia for more wisdom about their veracity), but how is it the search engine’s fault to not navigate through seas of crap?
When I search for academic things, Google or StartPage still seem to give me useful answers.
I have been wary about searches related to reviews about anything, but it just seemed to me the internet is a worse place now in general (because of walled gardens and spam)
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
Disclaimer: I’m late to this whole discussion and I also don’t understand some things (I don’t fully understand what SEO is and why it’s bad, though from the comments I understand it’s part of what’s making search engines worse nowadays)
Given that: I also made some searches where I wouldn’t get anything good in the first pages, but that seemed to be dictated by the amount of spam sites too, isn’t it?
I mean, I use the Ublock Origin and NoScript extensions for Firefox and search logged out of Google, so I don’t get advertisements, but I agree that, depending on what I search, I need to fight through large amounts of crap to find something good. Still I don’t understand (and it’s my lack of knowledge in this) why it’s the search engine’s fault for not being the best and hiding spam sites
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
Honest question: what you’ve described is very disturbing (having to wade through lots of bot reposts), but why would this be Google’s fault (or DuckDuckGo’s or Bing’s or StartPage"s or Kagi’s)?