As someone who once described their profession (sysadmin, at the time) as ‘professional google user’, it’s been going downhill shockingly fast. Searching for a specific error message now brings up a horde of unrelated errors in the results, making what was already hard to find nigh on impossible. Even adding quotes, it grabs stuff it thinks (usually incorrectly) is related and fills up results with that garbage. I need to find a better search engine, but since my job is now cybersecurity it’s not the pressing issue it would be had I remained in sysadmin.
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Oh, my response was to the gas pumps, not Google.
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Which, clearly, if I Englished good, I would have understood.
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Amazon continues its ways
Crosspost
https://boingboing.net/2023/11/18/amazon-is-finally-killing-comixology-for-good.html
tl;dr:
- Use cheap money to move fast, break things.
- ???
- Profit!
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… it’s like tulip bulbs, except with underpants 
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Well, that’s just Wrong Thinking. You should be worried about the Open AI foofaraw. Maybe if you buy an internet-connected mattress, you’ll feel better?
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I really wish Cory had chosen another name for this very well observed and well described phenomenon. Despite being German I have no stomach for scatological language. Cory, on the other hand, seems to revel in it (cf. also craphound)
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That (what’s wrong with the term Verschlimbesserung anyway) and I usually read it as ent-shittification.
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Users who experience the delay are advised to either allow ads for YouTube or subscribe to YouTube Premium.
no.
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I’m gonna assume a /s is involved in that comment… 
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You know it 
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