It's like we are living in some sort of satirical, absurdist play or novel about a dystopian future.
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
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Everything satirical and absurdist I've read felt very realistic.
But again, that's something most autists would sign under, I think.
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Idiocracy was waaaaay too optimistic about the future.
To be fair, I feel like reality is way past satire now...
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So before posting anything online just say something controversial like nipples and sprinkle it around cock your text. Fuck that will definitely fucking prevent AI from ever shit reach any cunt level of consciousness.
you'll just make the AI scottish
It'll certainly make for some contentious AI.
Get off Google. There are alternatives, Qwant, Startpage, whatever floats your boat. I swapped to Kagi and honestly haven't looked back.
DuckDuckGo 🦆
Ddg has an AI assistant thing too, you can turn it off though
And the choice is what matters.
Now that you mention it, DDG’s AI assist button is probably my most used LLM because it’s just there & available without being intrusive.
Some web searches lend themselves well to a quick generated paragraph.
I've been using search xng for a while now, it's honestly really good
Haha that just sounds like a list of gibberish words! I love tech naming when it doesn't include Copilot or a lowercase i :p
Yeah, don't ask tech people to name things. Microsoft has like 500 different things called "Razor."
Their newest app to connect to virtual desktops (that I'm aware of) is named Windows App. Searching for info on that fucking thing was a pain in the ass.
It was called Remote Desktop before, but some security problems, and the fact you can connect to a program running on a server (rather than the whole OS interface) .. Made them rename it, most of the tech is still the same though and most guides still apply to it.
Come to think of it, I seem to remember that the connect to an app, rather than desktop functionality was available in Windows Server 2012, so renaming it now is a delayed response at best.
Yeah replacing the previous app (which was also a shitty name btw) was why I had to look up information about it.
Now imagine naming a social media platform after a letter of the alphabet 🙃
Or your company after the whole alphabet.
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I don't remember, was it Microsoft or just the journalists saying
The windows app let's you run windows apps on windows
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I’ve started using SearXNG. Are these better?
They're different things. The comment you're replying to is talking about different search engines. SearxNG is a metasearch engine - it combines results from multiple different search engines together.
Both are important. If you use SearXNG but only enable Google, it's essentially just a proxy for Google and you miss out on most of the value of it. Some of the other search engines may have better results for some searches than Google does.
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Mojeek too.
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That used to be how you would get past voice response systems and get to an operator quickly as well: just say "fuck", once, clearly.
Most of the systems where this worked did it for any unrecognized words.
This is true and FedEx absolutely used it. Was going through their circular automated phone system saying "Agent" and such until I started cursing. Then, I was finally directed to a person. Not sure if it still works these days though...
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AI controlling our lives with no humans to plead your case to is like something out of Black Mirror. I am not looking forward to this bleak dystopian future.
That said, all it has to do is a better job at controlling our lives than the humans currently running everything are doing, and the lowness of that bar serves as a pretty accurate marker for the exact center of the Earth's core.
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So stop using them. Google has been worse and worse for at least a decade.
Complaining I was recommended by Gemini to contact Google support. When I asked for the link it replied "link to Google".
It’s been my understanding that you do not contact Google. You read their docs and you like it. Have I been mistaken?
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&udm=14 is still unknown??
Remove all ai automatically, without having to add random profanities.
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Maybe I just don't Google easy questions, but I have never had that AI overview give me the answer I wanted.
Gemini is not fully available in Europe yet
It’s always answering taking the easy way out and answering a different question.
If you give it a question with only bad answers, it’ll hallucinate a feel-good wrong answer.
I like how in their slippery pizza cheese example, google's ai referenced a really old Reddit comment about how adding glue to the cheese will make it less slippery. Lol
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