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&udm=14 is a temporary fix for those who still feel the need to use Google’s search.

Paid search isn’t the solution, as evidenced by the untrustworthiness of the CEO of Kagi search.

What I would like to see is a non-profit search.

Google wanted to organize all the world’s information to make it useful. Sounds like a great idea destroyed by a profit motive getting in the middle. Try the same idea without the profit motive and you’ll probably end up creating something people will defend endlessly, like Wikipedia.

What if your search engine asked you for a five dollar donation, once a year, the way Wikipedia does?

Search engines should be non-profit, honestly, they should be an extension of Public Libraries.

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CEO of Kagi has no boundaries and doesn’t know how to take “no” for an answer. He thinks he can just browbeat other people into agreeing with him. It’s a bad look and makes me have zero trust in Kagi as a product.

discuss.techlore.tech/t/…/2

I said elsewhere just a few days ago: These fucking techbros need to realize that sometimes shutting the fuck up and letting your products speak for themselves is the better move than trying to browbeat everyone into acceptance of your view of your products. Prelovac’s insistence on being heard by someone who has no interest in a conversation with him screams entitlement and a controlling attitude. People who can’t take no for an answer generally are not good people. Not being able to accept someone else’s lack of consent and wanting to bully them into consent is a bad fucking look, period.

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It’s the equivalent of doing a Google search and then clicking on the “Web” tab for results.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/fc9fe4ea-f5aa-4a1e-9d17-896f6b1b6b68.png

Clicking on “Web” manually inserts the &udm=14 at the end of the search string. I believe udm is just classifying which type of search to run, and this is a basic “web search” with no gimmicks.

&udm=14 is fancy for nerds who think they’re special but for anyone else it’s just clicking on “Web” results.

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…like AMD and Intel and nVidia and ARM and Apple and Qualcomm?

Oh wait.

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It’s a toss up between Lake Placid and Jawbreaker.

Jawbreaker will probably take it as it was my first introduction to Judy Greer.

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The film that launched a thousand transitions.

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The US remake, The Man with One Red Shoe, starring Tom Hanks, is a pretty fun romp as well.

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After Earth? Looks like a real stinkbomb.

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Yes.

(I think this question needs to be a little bit more open ended)

Is Craigslist Dying?

I went to Craigslist in my local area for the first time in awhile. I used to like “best of” Craigslist because some of them were great, there still are some, but its just not the same. A community I used to visit had about half the number of posts as I remember, and of jobs and things for sale, I would say roughly half the...

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Fighting off bots and scrapers has become a huge problem for every site on the internet.

It’s not surprising that a site that has kept a web 1.0 ethos and style hasn’t updated the back-end to more appropriately deal with these types of attacks.

Further, craigslist functioned on not needing a ton of moderators for the whole shebang. Keeping it simple allowed costs to be low.

The bot armies have changed that calculus, now you need a ton of well-paid moderators to make it functional, and I would suspect a site like Craigslist simply doesn’t pull enough income to be able to justify those sort of costs.

So instead, it will wither and rot on the vine.

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The story of how we went from couchsurfing.com to airbnb.com

Couchsurfing became a for-profit company in 2011, after having been a volunteer-outfit since 1999.

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Young people don’t use Facebook because it’s full of old people just like what happened to MySpace and young people moving to Facebook because it was… full of old people.

TikTok went from being a Gen Z hangout to being filled with millennials who wanted to stay hip and young, and now young people are bailing on TikTok, too.

It always goes: Youth find cool space. Older youth want to stay hip and young and so populate youth space. Older youth quickly age up, soon making it a non-youth space. Younger youth leave to find a new cool space for youth. Some kind of Samsara.

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Being depressed.

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Sounds more like a way to push Microsoft accounts and Windows Hello than consumer oriented.

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https://i.giphy.com/Y8SqjWuohk8Rq.gif

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I’ve seen this suggested elsewhere, this isn’t my idea:

Journalism is falling apart and now is reduced to clickbait journalism because they can’t find the money to pay for real, good investigative journalism.

LLMs need endless amounts of quality text to learn from.

AI companies need to make working deals with journalism outfits to be able to train off of all new journalistic writing. (We won’t get into older writing because that’s more complicated, just make the deal for anything written after the deal)

You’ve just solved two problems. Now good journalism is well-funded and LLMs have a legal, endless path to training. There will always be more news to write about. Win-win.

Personally, I think this would solve the copyright issue as well, because this is actually paying people a good wage for their copyrighted material.

The first AI company to come to an agreement with the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal will likely have a very safe position in the market.

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Good critique.

Well, for one, the whole publishing industry is struggling and writers in general are struggling to make money. They could start financing the arts they’re ostensibly taking so much from to train their models. In doing so they could create an explosion of new, quality literature and journalism. It could change the face of a dying industry and revitalize and reshape it. However, it would require the “benevolence” (*slight retch) of tech moguls to accept that perhaps the people producing the content they train their AI on should be properly compensated.

The reason to pay a special rate would be to support the arts and produce new, quality text of all varieties to train on. Available internet training data is easily and cheaply accessible, but less quality, and quickly being diluted by websites auto-generated by AI, causing AI to be trained on AI. By “financing the arts” you would produce quality PR for your company as well as making a short pathway to a constant churn of new content for your models. You could even extend this to scientific publishing, to go beyond the arts and into financing science publishing.

Especially considering there are many continued lawsuits about abuse of copyright to train the models. Everyone knew where the books3 corpus came from, it was known from the beginning that it was all pirated books from Bibliotik, all these groups really shot themselves in the foot by using a well-known pirated document of thousands of copyrighted books for training. They could make all those lawsuits go away with agreements with writers, journalists, and publishers and come out looking like heroes for saving the entire publishing industry and helping clean up the internet and publishing by prioritizing quality, well-written content.

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Groups like this need to understand that their PR would do better if they said nothing at all rather than just being an asshole.

See also: CEO of Kagi search who thinks he can browbeat people into agreeing with him. It makes me never want to use Kagi.

Just shut up and let your fucking products speak for themselves. The more you rant about your philosophy to others, the less they actually want to use your products.

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So it couldn’t just be a web based player for something like PlexAmp? Thats literally all I would want it for. Seems like it could do the job it was made for but for another app would be ideal.

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It was always bullshit, though.

As far back as 2010, there were more women playing games like Peggle or Bejeweled than there were men playing games on Steam.

Women didn’t play “real games” or some such fucking bullshit, so they regularly were ignored in the numbers.

Games have always been more popular than people have acted like. It’s just one more thing Boomers spent way too much time chiding and acting like was childish. They did it for so long people are only now to starting to feel lack of judgment for gaming.

Remember when Hillary Clinton wanted to ban GTA over the Hot Coffee mod? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

Also, it’s wild how much of gaming has become nothing but gambling culture, using the same tools and tricks.

Boomers are A-OK with spending all day sitting at a slot machine while shitting themselves and they think that’s a “game.” They hated our games until our games became like their bullshit ass fucking wank game of chance. Now they’re the fucking Whales that mobile publishers want because they’ll just hit the button endlessly… just like they did with the slots. Losers.

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Now they’ve moved to review-bombing other Valve games since Valve isn’t listening.

Not a great look for the community.

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I’d vote for Ben Schwartz.

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I think the main reason this comes as a Fuck You to a lot of folks is that this came with (don’t know if it still does) Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS as the default VNC software. So a lot of hobbyists might have not thought about this in a long time and are suddenly facing needing to set up SSH suddenly because the VNC they were using is now off the table. (Makes me glad I defaulted to SSH+keys pretty soon after learning how to use it)

It probably should have never been bundled as the default for a hobbyist operating system. I guess we’ve seen the writing on the wall for the Raspberry Pi Foundation making bad moves for a while now.

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raspberrypi.com/…/bookworm-the-new-version-of-ras…

So reading around it looks like Raspberry Pi Foundation now suggests TigerVNC because its optimized for Wayland and the newer version of Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm) is all Wayland now. RealVNC is not optimized for Wayland and now is pulling this shit on Home users.

I haven’t tested this myself yet, just found it through some quick searching.

How-To Set Up TigerVNC on RPi OS Bookworm: picockpit.com/…/tigervnc-and-realvnc-on-raspberry…

But this How-To seems to recognize the reasons why the changeover is happening and what RPi Foundation suggests to use, so it seems like a good place to start.

TigerVNC also seems to be Open Source and unpaid, so it seems like a valid replacement option for the moment.

tigervnc.org

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TigerVNC

It looks like Bookworm is supported all the way back to the Pi 3B+ which is good news for me, specifically. Sounds like its some hoops to jump through in the Raspberry Pi OS Imaging Tool to get it to happen, but it’s there.

I am unsure about TigerVNC support for previous versions of the RPi OS, but its maybe still possible for older models.

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Meanwhile, US and other countries are dumping everything into AI while screaming about how we need new energy sources to run it.

In other words, the selfish pricks at the top ain’t gonna stop… Unless they are forced to stop.

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