Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add “udm=14” to the search URL....
For many years now, almost the only way to find tech-related answers was to add the word “reddit” to your search. Before the Rexodus ofc.
Nowadays a lot of people go straight to where they wanted to find info - Wikipedia, StackOverflow, IMDB, etc. - and search from there.
Google itself has admitted how bad it has gotten, and in response they decided to voluntarily reduce their profits and return everything back to when it all worked… - no I’m just kidding, they said wait a bit and AI will save us all, somehow (from ourselves?).
I mean… probably originally, but that’s not all that it is, nowadays. Some people really do unironically mean the former, in that sub on the social network that shall not be named (though I haven’t checked it for… hrm, almost a year now!:-P).
It looks like a conspiracy if you ask me - all those “scientists” with their… “facts”! Everyone saying the same thing all the time - it sure sounds like they are pushing an agenda to me! What if I don’t want to be educated though - did they ever stop to think about that, hrm!?
It has nothing to do with bash specifically - other shells like sh, csh, tcsh, zsh, etc. are the same. Whitespace in UNIX is just that way by design. And it’s been a long while since I used a Windows CLI but they were that way too - plus added all that weirdness about ~1 at the ends of filenames, and Mac OSX also. So not even just UNIX, but it’s how the CLIs tend to work, where whitespace acts as the “delimiter” between arguments sent to a program.
program_name arg1 arg2 arg3 arg4
So if you use whitespace like “cp file 1 file 2”, the CLI sends arg1=“file”, arg2=“1”, arg3=“file”, arg4=“2”, rather than arg1=“file 1” and arg2=“file 2”. These are just the foundational rules of how CLIs work - a computer can’t read your mind, and this is how you precisely tell it what you want, within this highly rigid framework to avoid misunderstandings.
The alternative is to use a GUI, so like see file, drag file, and ofc that has its own set of tradeoffs good and bad.
A video titled “This Video Will Make You Angry”, by CGP Grey, about how memes evolve in the same manner as living organisms, though in this case those most successful tend to be the ones that engender anger in their target audience.
The amount of “I’m shocked, Shocked I tell you, SHOCKED… that the leopards have chosen to eat my face off as well!” is staggering, and only understandable to me b/c I live in the USA, where we are doing pretty much the same thing.
“Facts” do not matter to conservatives, only how they “feel” about something, in the moment.:-(
When will we learn - “both sides” isn’t something that THEY actually believe (they believe in winning, however/whatever it takes, and they are quite aware of how different that makes them from us - in fact they despise us for that), it is troll-bait meant for us to get distracted, taking time to respond to it rather than move forward with whatever ACTUALLY NEEDS DOING.
Lemmy will grow, but for right now it does not meet every need. Perhaps it never will. Especially with lives and livelihoods on the line, you must do whatever works best for you, so please do not feel guilty.
It feels like no matter where I turn some septuagenarian, or older, is making life miserable for myself and others. Usually these are older white Christian conservatives, obsessed with a delusional sense of reality that no longer has a basis in fact, or perhaps never did....
The entire world is going through this right now. Many of us will never own a home - and no I don’t mean just Gen-Z and maybe Millenials, I mean people your age even. Fwiw, you/we still are doing better off than at least 95% of the world, but that is not to diminish the pain that we are losing hope b/c we are not doing as well as we thought we would. Find a way of coping that works for you - I am still searching for mine…:-( I just thought it might help to say that you are not alone:-).
Portable convenience [The Square Comics] (lemmy.world)
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The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack (bsky.app)
Brought to you by the Department of Erasing History.
Freud (mander.xyz)
USA Unprepared for H5N1 Pandemic (www.newsweek.com)
In short we’ve learned nothing, done nothing, and will be caught flat again. If you’re not ready, get ready, because no one is coming to save you.
Does One Line Fix Google? - A “Web” filter that presents what Google used to look like a decade ago | tedium.co (tedium.co)
Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add “udm=14” to the search URL....
Kabosu, the Dog Behind the ‘Doge’ Meme, Has Died (www.ign.com)
Not sure if this counts as “world news”, but RIP Doge :(...
Using Google whilst Duck Duck Go is down. How long has Google been this bad?
So ddg is down, so I visit Google. It’s been some years....
Someone stop the ride, I want to get off (midwest.social)
That's all it is. (lemmy.world)
Groundhog day (midwest.social)
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Donald Trump is barely holding it together at trial — no wonder Republicans are afraid of a debate (www.salon.com)
Trump tantrumed and even quit a debate with Joe Biden in 2020, but now he’s even more emotionally volatile...
It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in North Carolina (arstechnica.com)
Wait, it's all Linux? (lemmy.zip)
Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two (www.hindustantimes.com)
Star Wars is to woke - That's why I'm a Trekkie (lemmy.zip)
Ron DeSantis bans 'global elite' lab-grown meat (www.bbc.com)
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has banned lab-grown meat, saying he will “save our beef” from the “global elite” and its “authoritarian plans”....
why does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?
I know that there are ten different alternatives. Why don’t we simply improve the basic stuff?
Memes live in your brain (youtu.be)
A video titled “This Video Will Make You Angry”, by CGP Grey, about how memes evolve in the same manner as living organisms, though in this case those most successful tend to be the ones that engender anger in their target audience.
Can't go back to waiting tables (lemmy.world)
its true tho (lemmy.today)
Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable (www.bloomberg.com)
Both sides though.
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How to cope with existing right now?
It feels like no matter where I turn some septuagenarian, or older, is making life miserable for myself and others. Usually these are older white Christian conservatives, obsessed with a delusional sense of reality that no longer has a basis in fact, or perhaps never did....