overcast5348
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- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 month ago:
Okay, which instances should I block to get rid of the tankies?
- Comment on Day one and done 1 month ago:
I say that I like “garbage pizza” because that’s how everyone around me treats the pizzas I like. I don’t like the “good pizzas” that everyone keeps raving about. I’ll take Domino’s or Pizza Pizza any day of the week.
- Comment on teachings 2 months ago:
I’m guessing that you were one of those “I won’t ever use all this math” kind of students?
- Comment on Climate change is messing with how we measure time: study 2 months ago:
Tldr- melting ice caps have reduced the angular velocity of the Earth so we need to make some changes to UTC to account for this slow down.
- Comment on *So far* 3 months ago:
Wait, what’s this?
- Comment on I have attempted science. 3 months ago:
Gotcha.
I thought that was the norm in all academia these days? Can a physicist (or anyone from another field) publish results that didn’t go as expected and save future scientists some time?
- Comment on I have attempted science. 3 months ago:
…because people don’t accept that it’s wrong? Or some other reason?
- Comment on Huh 3 months ago:
Tittles are the little dots above i and j, that’s why you weren’t autocorrected. You’re looking for “title” though.
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 5 months ago:
Are you completely incapable of communicating without resorting to personal attacks?
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 5 months ago:
Do you know how many scams happen because it’s ridiculously easy for anyone to edit the “knowledge” panel? I’d rather click an extra button and get the real number from the business’ own website than trust whatever is on Google.
“You’re not this obtuse are you?” – uncalled for, but, I guess you are who you are. So, you do you, buddy.
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 5 months ago:
…and the website should have all that information, right?
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
SEO itself is fine - it’s just optimising your website website for whatever a search engine considers important.
The problem is that search engines’ seem to have absolutely garbage metrics for what is important and worth it.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
An example of search engines failing me miserably last month:
I wanted to hire a photographer, so I started searching using keywords like “wedding photographer MAJOR_CITY_NAME”, “photography MCN”, “event photographer MCN”, etc. The top results I got were all mostly along the lines of “top ten wedding photographers in MCN” i.e. listicles with links to a few photographers who probably paid the listicle creator? There were maybe one or two links to a photographer’s website itself in the first page.
I’m okay with ignoring the first page of results and moving on to following pages. But rather than giving me individual photographer’s websites in subsequent pages, I started getting listicles for “top ten wedding photographers in OTHER_CITIES”. I’d click through multiple pages of results to find maybe 5 direct website links.
What actually helped me find a photographers eventually was entering the exact same key words on Instagram. Almost every single one of them that I found on Instagram had an excellent website and the city name, and their addresses were mentioned clearly on their websites. So, it wasn’t a case of them not having enough information on their website. It’s just that search engines chose to prioritise listcles of photographers from other cities rather than giving me links to individual websites of photographers in my own city.
In this case, I got lucky because photographers have a presence on Instagram which has a functional search engine. What if I want to find a plumber, or someone else? I’m forced to just trust a listicle creator because search engines don’t want to give away links to single purpose websites and only want to keep us on websites with a shit ton of content (that may or may not be what you need) and ads.
/rant
- Comment on Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing | CNN Business 5 months ago:
50% for 20 million sounds insane to me. I’d be clamoring for 75% or more. I’m in Ontario and people making something like 250000 CAD already have a marginal rate above 50% IIRC. Before anyone calls me a lazy commie, my marginal rate is in the mid 40s already, and I’m happy to do my part.
- Comment on Remember to tip your boss this new years eve 6 months ago:
No, you’re a boring pussy.
/s
- Comment on The Jebus Said So. 6 months ago:
Your mom never existed.
- Comment on Saying you're down to do something means the same thing as saying you're up for it. 6 months ago:
C has some uses other than K/S. The usage in "ch"ess, for instance. We’ll have to shoehorn some other letter here if C is eliminated.
- Comment on I love purple. 6 months ago:
Magic is purple! * Throws chair *
- Comment on Fallout TV Show - Trailer 6 months ago:
Yup, I watched that too!
Be prepared to be "There it no war in Ba Sing Sae"d soon.
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 6 months ago:
Sub to a bunch of hobby communities and browse only those rather than the “all” content if you want to get rid of the doom. You’re gonna have lesser content to consume, for sure, but that’s just a bonus in my book.
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 8 months ago:
Honestly, the terminal is probably not going to be that hard to use for you. Considering that you’re on lemmy, you’re probably ahead of the curve in tech skills. Maybe don’t go picking something in the deep end like arch though.
/j I use arch btw.
- Comment on Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising 8 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising 8 months ago:
Can you even create an account on ddg? What data do they have on you?
Not being argumentative, I’m genuinely curious.
- Comment on Using fMRI scans on 19 lonely fans of “Game of Thrones”, researchers discovered that they processed their favorite characters similarly to real friends in their brains. This suggests that lonelier ... 8 months ago:
I can’t tell of that community is a joke or a mental health issue.