dgerard

yeah, "Did you know" exists to encourage new articles, or major expansions of old ones. it cycles every six hours I think.

the post history is very infosec dot pub

Wikipedia rules make more sense when you understand they are entirely to keep the most pedantic nerds on earth from fighting

This is specifically about the current shitty "AI Overview" that is currently and specifically pissing people off and Google essaying that as the only interface to search. (Sure they might not, but OTOH predicting future behaviour from past behaviour.)

That they did fucking terrible overviews in the past is not some sort of excuse for the current and specific issue with the current and specific AI Overviews.

wtf with calling hating this extremely hateworthy shit "uncanny-valley reactionism"

acronym-spouting rules lawyers who will crush dissent by a thousand duck nibbles

hey now, my duck nibbling is thoroughly weaponised

i applied the relevant tags and rewrote the intro, may go through the rest later

yeah that's the tell

what if, right, we made a search engine so good it became the verb for searching, and then we replaced it with a robot with a concussion

oh yeah loved that format, perfect

however, Better Offline makes money

I thought I was looking into the camera, but phones are annoying

the wat.jpeg

if i stop saying "um" all the time that's half an hour less in post right there