Ask Jeeves already started sucking when they got rid of Jeeves himself. They lost sight of what was important.

This sign was made iteratively and they didn’t know about format copying in ms word.

Yeah it’s called Temu. You’ll get them in your email and SMS inboxes too.

OH NO ITS ALL OVER SAVE ME JESUS

I’M SHITTING MY PANTS I’M SO SCARED OR MAD OR WHATEVER AAAAAH

But now you can leave it at home when you think it’s going to get you in trouble.

It’s a cool idea and I was using it every day for a while. I love the gemtext format and I even made some “gempub” ebooks for fun. I have a site on flounder.online with some crap on it. Two things brought it all down for me.

The first is the hard TLS requirement. I’ve read all the rationales about this and still don’t see the point. I get the principle behind it but it’s not worth requiring that much infrastructure. It sucks all the fun and accessibility out of it. Which is my other issue.

We all know a platform can’t be TOO accessible without becoming like twitter. But if accessibility is too low you’ll end up with nothing but upper class tech workers moaning about the bougie problems that they created for themselves. The only capsules that had anything decent on them had HTTP proxies. It didn’t feel like a platform worth contributing to for someone like me.

I’ve heard about the Spartan protocol which is similar but has no TLS requirement. I’ve been planning on getting into that but all I’ve done is read about it.

How is this notable or interesting then? I thought we were all just accepting that malicious software is an inherent part of all open platforms.

They change the interface pretty much every day. The people managing the image search are especially on crack. Features are disabled and then come back and then they’re disabled and then they come back… I just go to Bing now. I’m sorry my desire to search square images was such a monkey wrench in your business model google.

One of the only reasons I used vivaldi for a while.

I used to think all my problems would be solved if I had one of those.

This kind of bee hive isn’t real. It’s an old fashioned type of man-made bee hive but I spent a large portion of my life thinking there was a species of bees out there somewhere making these.

I’ve seen some pretty interesting images and some funny text but nothing that amounts to a big enough vision that it’s something cohesive like a complete movie or a book. I’ve seen Joel Haver videos but those aren’t made by pushing a button and getting a video.

Can’t you see us insulting them? We said a lot as we watched them descend into a dark hole never to return.

Being a doctor would be a real job, but the only jobs I’ve seen actually getting replaced are things like clickbait content farms, scams, marketing, exploitive gambling-centric video games, and other such garbage. Unlike being a doctor it’s never been hard to shit that stuff out into the world. And since these neural networks aren’t actually that good, I’ll believe they can replace doctors when I see it.

Are there any that are real in the sense that they contribute something of value to society?

Was this written by the actual soyjak?

This is what happens every time youtube has an apocalypse. They stay away long enough to feel like they’ve made their point and then they resume advertising like nothing happened. Maybe it’s not advertisers who hold the power and everyone should stop being so scared of them.

Why did feel a need to poohpooh electric cars for such a weird reason?

Another service that I didn’t know google even offered until they announced it was dying. There are so many sources that podcast apps can pull from that we don’t need half as many as we have.

This comic never made sense to me. She hates sea lions because they don’t let people talk shit about them. Seems like she’s the problem here in neo london where sapient sea lions live among us. They’re here, get over it.