The Tragedy of Google Search

package · 2023-09-22T22:43:21+00:00

It's insane; they keep removing features or replacing them with inferior ones and then wonder why people aren't pleased with the quality of the results. Just recently they removed reverse image search and replaced it with an AI-powered product suggester. Before that they removed searching by exact image size, and before that true verbatim search. They don't even keep historical cached results anymore, which means they can't even provide relevant results if they wanted to What's even more insane is that now their "competition" is starting to do the same thing, with Yandex nerfing their reverse image search within the past month or two.

package · 2023-09-21T22:15:56+00:00

Why did you link to this page at the bottom of your comment along with a link to some spammy web game?

edit: this user is a spam bot

package · 2023-09-20T11:39:57+00:00

It's likely that you're just commenting on a channel that manually approves all of their comments or has strict spam filters. Try commenting on a couple other videos from small, unrelated channels

package · 2023-09-18T04:33:31+00:00

Saidit already has this.

The site may already have it, but the implementation clearly is not effective enough. It's just white text on a dotted background with a slight wave distortion, which in the present day will not defeat anything except basic scripts that don't check for images.

Also text filtering doesn't work if the ad is different every time.

Generally a text spam filter would check for things like blacklisted words or phrases (ie "bone conduction"), uncommon domains/subdomains/TLDs, unusual or excessive unicode, or other parts of the overall structure of the post as spammers usually use templates. It's very rare that spam posts would have no identifying characteristics for a text filter to catch.

package · 2023-09-18T02:26:41+00:00

Captchas during account creation are a set and forget solution. Text based filtering does not require 24/7 attention nor does it require more than one person on a small site like this, which is my point. Clearly the site has inadequate moderation tools if it can't handle the type of spam that has been getting posted lately.

package · 2023-09-18T02:03:34+00:00

Spam posts are not the same as ads; the site isn't getting paid to display them and they generally contain malicious links or link to sites with malicious links. Suppression of such posts isn't a foot in the door for censorship and I'd actually argue the opposite, since spam posts drown out legitimate posts.

As for this site specifically, plenty of small sites, even ones with only a few admins and no paid employees, don't have issues with moderating spam. Typically all a site needs to effectively combat spam is countermeasures during account creation, such as captchas, and text based filtering for posts.

package · 2023-09-14T22:53:40+00:00

The premise of the post is funny, as it's a skill fathers traditionally teach their sons at a young age. It's like making a post saying you just learned how to change a tire

package · 2023-09-14T06:54:59+00:00

^ How to say you were raised by a single mother without saying you were raised by a single mother, lmao

package · 2023-09-12T12:49:21+00:00

In what ways was your financial situation made worse under the previous admin before covid

package · 2023-09-11T11:30:35+00:00

I can somewhat understand the skepticism surrounding the other planes as there is not a wealth of video evidence, but you would need to be completely detached from reality to deny that planes hit the WTC. There are thousands of witnesses. There are videos of both of the planes from multiple different angles. The impacts left plane shaped holes.
If you don't believe any of the impacts were planes, the alternative would mean either killing all of the passengers after the planes took of and then hiding the planes, or getting hundreds of people and their families to involve themselves in the plot and then go into witness protection.

package · 2023-09-10T17:02:42+00:00

Each floor of the building is made to support the weight of the floors above it. Each floor is not made to support the weight of the floors above it plus the momentum of those floors above it falling downward. As soon as any one of those floors in the crash zone became weakened enough to collapse (through both structural damage from the impact and the weakening of materials due to heat), all the floors above are free to move at least 1 floor downward, and the floors below are subject to the ever increasing destructive force of the falling building above.

package · 2023-09-10T14:44:40+00:00

How exactly do people expect a massive building to fall besides in free fall? To the side like a domino? In slow motion? Stopping at each floor?

package · 2023-09-09T15:34:19+00:00

Have we already reached the stage where any computer program is considered AI? You don't need AI to query a database

package · 2023-09-09T15:30:36+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3pFFPSlW4

package · 2023-09-05T23:31:39+00:00

Hard for people to detransition if they've already killed themselves

package · 2023-09-05T23:26:12+00:00

found the tranny

package · 2023-09-03T01:06:55+00:00

Something being improbable does not mean it's impossible without intervention, especially over a span of billions of years among theoretically many multiple billions of trillions of opportunities.

package · 2023-09-02T09:56:49+00:00

You have to be a complete fool to trust any project like this that isn't open source and run locally with verifiable checksums of the executables. The fact that this project slates open source and security audits on their future roadmap AFTER rolling out all other functionality, including features that require your logins from other platforms, is a massive red flag.

package · 2023-09-02T04:57:58+00:00

that's a bit of a stretch

package · 2023-09-02T01:12:18+00:00

Yeah pretty much the entire universe is packed with radioactive particles and ionizing radiation; the conditions on earth are a massive outlier

package · 2023-08-28T19:22:01+00:00

People who write intentionally vague titles belong in camps

package · 2023-08-25T02:01:25+00:00

It won't get better until trannies aren't in positions of power and trans shit gets reclassified as mental illness

package · 2023-08-24T03:09:10+00:00

ffs people; learn how cameras work https://i.stack.imgur.com/zhXeA.jpg

package · 2023-08-17T19:16:23+00:00

Mullvad Browser is Tor Browser without the Tor Network

Aka a completely useless chrome reskin that doesn't even provide the functionality of Brave let alone TOR. Shit like this makes both TOR and Mullvad look sketchy

package · 2023-08-16T20:55:38+00:00

All of them. Kys

package · 2023-08-16T20:39:50+00:00

Amazing how all these charges have magically materialized just in time for the start of 2024 campaigning. This time next year it'll be 9000+ charges federally and in every single state and 100 different gag orders stopping Trump from publicly claiming his innocence.

package · 2023-08-15T22:52:17+00:00

Artificial neural networks are a way to facilitate machine learning by mimicking the general function of neurons, which signal outgoing connections based on the sum of incoming signals reaching an activation threshold. This mechanism has proven to be very well suited for fitting models to complex problems. They are not an attempt to copy the structure of the brain or produce consciousness.

package · 2023-08-15T19:14:55+00:00

That's not what an artificial neural network is.

package · 2023-08-12T09:55:12+00:00

Good thing everyone already switched to yt-dlp

package · 2023-08-11T15:28:12+00:00

Sure would be nice to be able to report etsy accounts that post spam on other sites

package · 2023-08-11T15:22:25+00:00

The spider: https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Chaos_Witch_Quelaag

package · 2023-08-11T03:07:21+00:00

I think you're missing my point; there are hundreds of people that took part in making the moon landing possible, from engineers to scientists to austronauts to low level technicians. To fake the moon landings would mean either getting ALL of these people to lie for nearly 60 years and counting, or to not only deceive the public with fake footage, but deceive all of these hundreds of experts with fake data and fake tasks to the point where they all think they managed to put people on the moon.

But to answer your question: because there's not any real interest in doing so. The original motivation -- the looming threat of communism and the soviet union -- no longer exists. The public has other concerns, as does the scientific community. NASA is focusing on space telescopes and mars missions.

package · 2023-08-10T09:37:34+00:00

Realistically which of the following sounds easier:

Land people on the moon following the effort of hundreds of people and years of work and over a dozen prior manned space missions including two prior successful lunar orbits
Do everything but land people on the moon and have all those hundreds of people lie about it, and even put a whole bunch of tracks and equipment on the moon so it looks like you landed people on it if anyone checks

package · 2023-08-10T09:18:47+00:00

Not defending failing drives but is "petapixel" a site anyone actually looks to for recommendations

package · 2023-08-08T23:26:56+00:00

Seems like the capitol building might need better security if standing in it allows you to take over the whole country

package · 2023-08-08T09:51:39+00:00

Classic schizo response. Won't defend a position beyond "it is known" no matter how ridiculous the claim.

package · 2023-08-06T09:21:10+00:00

Can you link me to anything showing that NASA said they can't escape earth's orbit?

package · 2023-08-05T04:12:29+00:00

You mean where Nasa would prefer to contract other companies like SpaceX to design and build rockets because it's easier and cheaper than handling it themselves? If you think that means we can't make rockets that make escape earth's orbit then yes you are colossally retarded.

package · 2023-08-05T02:04:57+00:00

You need to be a special kind of retarded to suggest we haven't gotten rockets out of earth's orbit

package · 2023-08-04T06:03:53+00:00

What is with these local news sites thinking it makes any kind of sense to charge for access? Instead of returning readers and page impressions that they could use to sell ads, they end up with drastically reduced readers and wasted bandwidth serving a page that will be immediately discarded once it loads.

package · 2023-08-03T16:22:42+00:00

Here's one where the complete inevitable destruction of the entire planet is days away and the experts are in denial while Kirsten Dunst acts like an insufferable non-emoting sad sack the whole time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IZGwvxhXvw

0/10 completely unwatchable pretentious garbage btw would not recommend

package · 2023-08-02T14:37:01+00:00

https://www.skywatchtv.com/tag/derek-and-sharon-gilbert/

It was a trailer for a book from this site and was posted in 2015 or earlier. Protip put just the video id in google and show all results. Works well for most videos that have been linked to from other sites.

package · 2023-08-01T23:56:52+00:00

Let's try this again:

People find a mysterious package attached to a parachute/balloon.
The media and police hear about this find.
The police, not knowing what the package is, bring in the bomb squad to secure the package.
Further investigation by the police determines that it is just a 10 year old's science fair project. They do not disclose the specifics of the investigation to the media, most likely because doing so would send reporters and possibly conspiracy schizos after a 10 year old and their family.
When the reporters call the package mysterious and do not have specifics regarding its origin, this does not imply that the police do not have those specifics.

If this doesn't make sense to you, you might want to get checked for some form of mental illness.

package · 2023-08-01T00:04:08+00:00

Paul Rubenoneoutinthepornotheater

package · 2023-07-31T17:55:26+00:00

They didn't say they don't know where it came from. They say they originally didn't know, but now do after investigating. Terrible language comprehension skills OP

package · 2023-07-31T08:07:09+00:00

Overvalue in the sense that they're complaining about low residual payouts despite being no-name actors in movies/shows that no one watches.

package · 2023-07-30T10:17:34+00:00

Actors and actresses whine that they negotiated their contracts poorly and/or dramatically overvalue themselves

Remember these are just residuals; they still get paid more for a single episode/film than most people make in a year.

package · 2023-07-30T03:07:38+00:00

Plot twist Canada actually hates trannies and wants them to suffer the consequences of their actions

package · 2023-07-29T11:29:38+00:00

the lead photo vs the parents

package · 2023-07-28T21:46:21+00:00

*blind for three weeks

package · 2023-07-27T13:47:14+00:00

Did she troon out? She always struck me as the type to troon out.

package · 2023-07-25T13:04:02+00:00

Admins are too busy hanging out on discord and chatting up trannies

package · 2023-07-25T09:40:19+00:00

To be fair neither is twitter 😎👉👉

package · 2023-07-24T18:55:24+00:00

... inb4 cease and desist from the X Windowing System?

package · 2023-07-24T07:22:35+00:00

The fuck is an "x" of a bluebird?

package · 2023-07-23T01:06:38+00:00

... how do they know it was an accident if he immediately killed himself after

package · 2023-07-18T05:53:40+00:00

Your search engine of choice and as many "-site:" as necessary. Adding "forum" often helps

package · 2023-07-14T21:35:45+00:00

The human eye is not sensitive enough to see the difference between all 256 shades of pure red, green, or blue that a typical 8 bit per channel screen can display, let alone all 256³ shades, and especially not brighter shades.
Even if it was, many screens aren't even able to display that many colors reliably.
Some screens can actually display 10, 12, or more bits of color per channel, making the individual tiny steps between shades even more impossible to perceive.
Image compression/presentation may result in dithering, where a color is approximated by using the proximity of a slightly lighter and a slightly darker color.

package · 2023-07-13T09:27:24+00:00

Which of the following is more convincing?

Verifiable proof of the claim, such as a list of articles that have gone missing or even archived links to those articles
A guy ranting for nearly 6 minutes with meme format text above and below the video

package · 2023-07-12T03:43:08+00:00

Face pics won't, but pics of real vaginas probably will

package · 2023-07-06T03:23:21+00:00

How many times have the police framed you for a crime?

package · 2023-07-05T06:40:03+00:00

Exceptions could only be made when dealing with crime, national security threats or foreign or domestic attempts to influence elections, however.

Aka permission to suppress anything they want if they can somehow link it to elections

package · 2023-07-04T06:05:42+00:00

Braindead ill-informed take, OP. Reddit, like twitter, is realizing the value of massive amounts of raw human-generated text data in the age of AI, and how allowing scrapers could devalue that data. That was the motivation for the API changes. The protests were partially because normal users preferred the user experience of third-party reddit frontends, but was primarily because without the API, reddit mods can't perform mass automated moderation/censorship as easily. These moderators, not users, were the main driving force of the protests, so unless it was an inside job and all the kicked mods just switched to alts, it makes no sense at all to suggest it was orchestrated by reddit.

package · 2023-07-04T05:50:41+00:00

He simplified the user interface—bringing us the click-and-drag movement to select text and graphics, along with cut, copy, and paste—and paved the way for the one-button mouse so many of us use today.

People use one button mice?

package · 2023-07-03T21:40:50+00:00

I mean, all a fake clone site needs to do is copy what a logged out user can see and do, which is pretty easy on a forum that's read-only without an account. Wouldn't even need to be every page; just enough to make most of the links on the homepage work.

But yeah looks like it's legit: https://kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojhmqruw2nit3uejrpiagrxeuxiyxcyd.onion/threads/i-hate-the-internet-and-the-people-who-own-it.131320/page-133#post-16448555

package · 2023-07-03T09:06:04+00:00

>linking to a post on the new domain to prove the new domain is legit

package · 2023-07-03T02:52:21+00:00

Found the tranny

package · 2023-07-02T23:27:03+00:00

Is it actually though? "New domain" clones are a common way to harvest logins

package · 2023-07-02T19:37:22+00:00

Don't have time to look into this too deeply right now, but you can point youtube-dl/yt-dlp to the m3u8 file directly, which can be derived from the twitter URL.

package · 2023-07-02T18:57:17+00:00

Anyone else been noticing how, independently of issues relating to political bias, the quality of writing from the average journalist has declined significantly in recent years? Articles read like the author just published the notes they took while researching a topic, with information rephrased repeatedly and/or presented in no particular order.

package · 2023-07-02T18:42:43+00:00

This is literally just a bug report saying that the known procedure for extracting video urls from twitter urls no longer works. This does not mean that the process is harder -- only that it changed.

package · 2023-07-02T03:15:33+00:00

His wife did it and lunged all over him after to contaminate the evidence

package · 2023-06-30T14:52:53+00:00

Unfortunately the actual decision does the opposite; while forbidding using race directly as a factor for admissions, it explicitly allows considering race when weighing other factors like poverty. So basically as long as admissions are saying "being black/hispanic means you might have had a rougher childhood than the white/asian applicant from the same neighborhood" and not "we're not looking for white/asian applicants at this time" it's legal.

package · 2023-06-27T14:43:52+00:00

The account was suspended on the 21st. It began tweeting again literally 5 minutes after this article was published.

package · 2023-06-27T09:28:09+00:00

Inb4 sabotage by environmental activists

package · 2023-06-26T04:44:44+00:00

Protip stop writing-off anything higher-level than C and focus on the functionality you want your site/service to have. Node and React are a nice modern option. Just put any preconceptions about performance or efficiency aside and just get your project functioning. If you actually do this you'll quickly realize how much your attitude is holding you back from actually creating things.

package · 2023-06-26T01:44:20+00:00

WHY SPAM INFO ABOUT BONE CONDUCTION IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE

package · 2023-06-25T16:26:32+00:00

only 3.24 seconds slower than the world record

3.24 seconds is a massive amount of time in an event where the total time of the race is only like 10 seconds

package · 2023-06-24T07:28:53+00:00

Not exactly; it's over the new, extremely costly access to an API that allowed reddit powermods to mass ban users based on participation in other communities, apply complex post and comment filtering, and generally just suppress users, communities, and discussion that they didn't like. It also allowed for 3rd party apps, but the major butthurt from all these mods is because they have less power than they did before.

package · 2023-06-23T06:23:17+00:00

No one oppresses women better than women

package · 2023-06-22T05:32:14+00:00

Because this site was abandoned by the admins long ago and there isn't really any moderation of any kind going on anymore

package · 2023-06-21T00:28:03+00:00

What he and most everyone aren't understanding is that this isn't actually about third party apps. Mods are pissed because without the API they cannot do things like mass banning people for participation in other subs or applying complex automatic filtering to posts and comments. The third party apps bit is just a convenient excuse.

package · 2023-06-20T11:27:04+00:00

"Greenhouse my dad and I put up" sounds like some pretentious arthouse film about loss and aging

package · 2023-06-20T10:05:39+00:00

you better make the api cheap enough to allow us to continue to use it to extract massive amounts of data or we'll leak the massive amounts of data we've extracted so far

package · 2023-06-19T15:12:17+00:00

Article blames a "rightward shift" in the supreme court for the situation but neither it nor the article it links to as a "source" for that claim ever describe anything specifically right wing and seemingly just assert that this wouldn't have happened with left wing justices and even links this to abortion laws for some reason.

package · 2023-06-18T06:52:03+00:00

Christian Selig, the developer of the beloved Apollo for Reddit client, estimated that Reddit’s new API structure would come to a total bill of $20 million per year for his app. “Apollo’s price would be approximately $2.50 per month per user, with Reddit’s indicated cost being approximately $0.12 per their own numbers,” Selig has said.

Oh wow $2.50 a month; the horror!

package · 2023-06-17T00:40:03+00:00

Given that chatgpt has at some point in the past month significantly reduced the quality of its responses, it should be pretty easy to tell when it's being used for something like this.

package · 2023-06-15T03:04:22+00:00

Unfortunately many that bought into the fad, including children, have irreversibly damaged their bodies and will never be able to live a normal life

package · 2023-06-15T01:45:53+00:00

For anyone who didn't read the article, the dog had air conditioning and was checked on every 45 minutes, and at some point between one of those checks the air conditioning failed.

package · 2023-06-10T18:35:57+00:00

Probably a completely ai generated article and no one checked that it wasn't nonsense

package · 2023-06-04T00:18:14+00:00

usaf explicitly trains drone with knowledge of its human operator's function and location as well as knowledge of its control tower's function and location but does not train it to protect these vital resources even though that is literally the only reason anyone would ever train a drone to have that knowledge

package · 2023-06-03T05:46:31+00:00

yes that is a good description of this totally legit story

package · 2023-06-02T05:58:46+00:00

A.I trains itself. If it doesn't, then it's not A.I. It's just a program.

There is no difference, and if you think there is you don't have any idea what you are talking about. Current AI systems aren't magic. While the underlying models that are generated by training are very complex and a bit of a black box, the way they function and are trained is not. They're just programs that take data, transform it, and produce a result, which is then assigned a score based on how well it conforms to some criteria. That criteria is determined by the architects of the program. AI that trains itself is just a program that has been trained to be able to score its own output based on the criteria provided.

Now why is is it that every place this story has been posted, someone has called it a fabrication?

Because it's a very stupid story that acts like AI systems are sentient entities that ignore their own training, or that such a complex use case would involve training that doesn't treat destruction of friendly resources as a failure condition. It just isn't realistic.

And you have a 2 year old account with no posts?

And? I have plenty of comments, or do those not count?

package · 2023-06-02T01:10:47+00:00

This story is beyond retarded and blatantly fabricated by someone who doesn't understand how ai works. The only way such a system would attempt to kill the operator and then go on to destroy operator's control tower in an attempt to successfully disable the target is if disabling the target is weighted over anything else including operator control, which is obviously not how anyone would ever design such a system.

package · 2023-05-31T06:37:32+00:00

app

kys zoomer this is a website

package · 2023-05-30T04:52:33+00:00

bummer I thought you meant "aliens like the ones in Signs"

package · 2023-05-28T03:42:11+00:00

Always really annoying when a fairly well written song randomly drops the ball like this does at 2:46.

package · 2023-05-25T02:53:47+00:00

How old was she in the rest of the world

package · 2023-05-25T02:46:22+00:00

Of all the things to spam, why information about bone conduction?

package · 2023-05-25T02:44:14+00:00

Indian scammers are only successful because reputable companies almost exclusively outsource customer service to India, so people don't question hearing a heavy Indian accent when they call "tech support". Without that crutch, Indian scam attempts would be about as successful as "show bobs and vagene".

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