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- Comment on Man uses ChatGPT to sell his Cooper City home: ‘It exceeded our expectations' 3 days ago:
Search engines are optimized to maximize profits for the owner of the search engines above being wholly accurate, succinct, or reflexive of the actual search query. This has the result of promoting results that are similar enough in most cases, but may not consistently be what your looking for–especially true when looking for historic relevancy.
I’m a developer who loves to tinker. This leads me to having weird technical errors at times (like black screens on new hardware with fresh windows installs on any version of a GPU driver). No amount of searching yielded anything relevant or actionable to resolve that issue. Plenty of posts trying to sell me the exact GPU I had purchased though.
I like small time musical artists. I’ll occasionally search one to pull up their discography only to find … the artist I’ve been listening to for years apparently doesn’t exist. Plenty of results for streaming apps though.
I’ll occasionally search lyrics verbatim only to find completely unrelated media as the only results.
Searching for product numbers and error messages often yields 0 results.
Google doesn’t even honor quotation marks to indicate exact matches anymore.
I’m glad you continue to have a good experience with search engines, but the experience I’ve had is one of severe degradation and intentional enshitification over there last 10-15 years or so.
- Comment on Man uses ChatGPT to sell his Cooper City home: ‘It exceeded our expectations' 3 days ago:
You must not have niche hobbies or errors.
- Comment on Man uses ChatGPT to sell his Cooper City home: ‘It exceeded our expectations' 3 days ago:
Some folks maybe aren’t prepared to do that themselves, but the more you use AI, the more confident you’ll become in leveraging those tools
Unfortunately it’s not the confidence in using AI that’s lacking. It’s the confidence in the output.
- Comment on ⛪💥🤓🍆 4 days ago:
FWIW there’s also a map showing relative interest per geographic region, so if that was you, well, I know what state you connected to the internet from.
- Comment on ⛪💥🤓🍆 4 days ago:
100% of maximum interest during selected time period.
Here’s the graph for “cat” vs “dog” over the last year. Interest in “cat” consistently falls below half the interest in “dog” (i.e. 1 in 3 people are cat people) and “dog” really only hit the 100% interest once.
- Comment on OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us 6 days ago:
I trust that they will aid in extrajudicial surveillance and autonomous killings.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
They just effectively expired all trans Kansan drivers licenses. If they want to drive or use their drivers licenses as an ID they need to pay about $30 to get a new one.
- Comment on Administrative task management 2 weeks ago:
This, of course, does nothing to resolve a hung task because the computer is off to the side.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
This also costs money and can threaten their ability to vote.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 weeks ago:
Like right after Charlie got Kirked Christians started sharing AI videos of him talking about forgiveness and shit.
Glenn Beck is making a “George AI” and Prager U in partnership with the White House are making Founding Father AI systems to lie to children about history and Christianity.
Horrifyingly there’s also HearAfter Ai.
- Comment on Ouch 2 weeks ago:
Is this the childless man who showed up to daycare centers with cameras and men in masks and then cried to the MAGA world when they like didn’t let a strange childless man who showed up with cameras and masked men in to film the children?
Which somehow captured the attention of the pedophile president who also didn’t realize that it’s not appropriate for childless men with cameras and masks to demand to be allowed entry to a daycare to film the children thereby leading to the current ICE invasion in MN and the deaths of multiple people?
- Comment on LibreOffice Online, a self-hostable libre office environment, is coming back! 2 weeks ago:
I hope they’re able to move toward a client first renderer instead of the image tile approach they used previously. That was kinda a network hog and cludgy to use.
- Comment on Connected cars can be hacked, research finds 2 weeks ago:
Parts of Iot are great, but not the whole “smart home sending multiple video and microphone feeds to Amazon/Google/Facebook” thing.
The ability to set up remote sensors on critical infrastructure to give early alerts is a benefit.
- Comment on Thilk 3 weeks ago:
Link to instructions?
- Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one 3 weeks ago:
Child marriage and rape (within marriage) are legal in far too many US States.
Slavery is allowed in far too many US States.
Brutalizing women (if you consider things like revocation of bodily autonomy or incarceration for miscarriages) is legal in far too many US States. If you consider unpunished crimes against women, though illegal, it is far too common in many US States.
Many landlords forbid having pets and there’s little to no recourse for pets killed by the state.
- Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one 3 weeks ago:
- Texas keeps trying to force Christianity into public schools
- Texas has a bounty system for women who lose a child in childbirth
- Texas continues to use the 13th loophole to compel labor without pay for prisoners
- In Texas, emancipated minors and teens with parental permission can be married over the age of 16
- Texas actually bans FGM, but they do allow male genital mutilation
- Texas police do also shoot dogs.
- Comment on Nothing good ever happens in a ravine. 3 weeks ago:
Nice hikes and you can play in the water!
- Comment on Wicked hangover 4 weeks ago:
M&Ms oughtn’t be measured in units of kg.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, definitely. The wiring needs for an industrial space or event venue are different than a domicile, but I don’t think anyone’s buying audiophile snake oil for those. They really seem to market that kinda crap to the fool and their money crowd.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 4 weeks ago:
I fucking love audio and have an extensive collection of equipment. The last thing in the chain before your ears (so headphones and speakers) will absolutely make a difference and the thing that provides power to that can make a difference. But the cables? The fucking cables?! Absolutely no impact once you’re above like $10. Turns out, electrons are electrons and they behave like electrons. Shockingly that doesn’t change in copper, gold plated copper, pure silver, or mud. Doubly so for the non analog part of the chain. Hell I’ve even seen “audiophile grade” ethernet cables.
The other part of the equation is if the differences made by the things that do make a difference actually matter to the listener. They do to me, but my dad is more than happy to just use the speakers on his Dell monitors.
- Comment on Wicked hangover 4 weeks ago:
M&Ms oughtn’t be measured in units of pounds.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 4 weeks ago:
In the case of what wound up on Roman Numeral Ten (formerly twitter) that’s correct, but given the actual PDF dump from the gov, if they just slapped an annotation on top of the image it’ll be possible to remove it and reveal what’s underneath.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 4 weeks ago:
It was simpler than that. You can just copy the black highlighter text and paste it anywhere.
- Comment on Save as PDF 4 weeks ago:
It’s a fine format for what it’s intended for, exact preservation of content, format, and layout. Once you start looking at a the immutable archivist/distribution format and start thinking to yourself “I’d rather like to edit that” Than you’ve messed up.
- Comment on GOG has already started working on Linux gaming as it says they're "a big fan" of the OS 5 weeks ago:
Why is the cover art a MBP running MacOs?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The gyrovague.gay thing as a threat is just so … out there. Like why would anyone care that there’s a vibe coded pro gay app that is obviously not your blog.
FWIW: 1000008823
- Comment on Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation? 1 month ago:
You can’t just remove an entire hypothetical that the example was predicated upon and expect to get the same meaning.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 1 month ago:
Maybe try a heat gun before applying the weight?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Another balmy day of approximately 0 degrees out.
- Comment on saturday wisdom 1 month ago:
