dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

and a terrible pub

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 6 hours ago

my lethal weapon is my WP:WTF

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

the post history is very infosec dot pub

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 12 hours ago

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

 

at frickin last - I wrote this in January and it's finally been published

archive: https://archive.is/RSU91

 

short ranty video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKdhf_hDQGU

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

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"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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

hey now, my duck nibbling is thoroughly weaponised

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

video version, double episode!!

this video had so many technical hiccups. the front fell off. (literally, my teleprompter tablet's screen came unglued and fell off. what the.) openshot decided rendering was toooo haaaard and i had to make a copy of the source video with a keyframe every 10 frames. fucking computers.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

yeah that's the tell

 

with bonus video version

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

oh yeah loved that format, perfect

however, Better Offline makes money

 

near flawless in execution

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