Bender’s Big Score, the first one. I was thinking of the scammer aliens, who have that same attitude SEO folks tend to carry.

No, you’ve got a point… Actually you’re right. To an extent.

I should have qualified my post.

But I’d argue the “bad” part of SEO is just too tempting. It’s clearly winning out, across the entire internet, unless you can look at me with a straight face and say “Google search is fine.” Or that discoverability of genuine services is fine. It’s definitely not; it’s a miracle any legitimate business is surviving from web search anymore, amongts the sea of attention scams and corporate behemoths.

In other words, the I feel like the “honeymoon” where we could trust SEO to happen ethically is now behind us.

When the Digg beta launched, we immediately noticed posts from SEO spammers noting that Digg still carried meaningful Google link authority. Within hours, we got a taste of what we’d only heard rumors about. The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn’t appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they’d find us. We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough.

I love how the SEO industry pretends they’re anything but a caustic cancer leeching off literally everything.

“Oh, but discoverability of small business!” Yeah… I’d punch you if I saw you, SEO jerks. The Futurama movie was right.

That’s because she has money.

Gender affirming care for ultra-rich.

Fixed that for you.

used to take 1 minute just to display a single raw photo

See, that’s a great example!

RAW processing (at least in that context) hasn’t really changed in 10 years. It’s probably the same code doing all the heavy lifting.

But most software doesn’t have that benefit.

I mean, any YouTube creator is neck-deep in streaming. It’s probably more unhealthy than long-form TV.

EDIT: Though to this influencer’s credit, she seems more low key and avoids other social media. It appears she only does YT, Patreon, Ko-Fi, Peertube(!) and her own site, and uploads on a modest scheduile. That’s quite reasonable.

I don’t buy that. No way they “open up” iOS to be more OSX-like, as that would spoil their cash cow (the App Store).

I hate to sound so cynical, but I just don’t see any incentive for Apple to do that.

Eh, but will they? There’s a whole lot of OSX legacy Apple would have to throw away.

I mean, I guess they could; they’ve done it before with architecture transitions. But this is different in that stuff on existing devices would stop working, whereas Intel or PPC Macs keep chugging along as-is.

Well, technically, System76 and a few other white box laptop makers did. But they don’t actually make laptops.

And to be fair to big OEMs, “it uses Linux!” was a much harder thing to market before. I can see (outside of the Framework, which caters to enthusiasts) they only dabbled with it but didn’t invest.

Also, an HP or Dell Linux distro would be an unholy abomination. I can only imagine what they’d ship.

As I always say:

…Most people need an iPad with a better keyboard, and a touchpad.

That’s all they use their computers for. They don’t want to mess with filesystems or specs or any concepts like that, they just want to add text to their kid’s picture or send an email or read a PDF or scroll YouTube, or do things like banking or streaming that are honestly better supported as iOS apps anyway.

And that’s basically what the Neo is.

Laptop makers are up shit creek if they insist on staying with Windows, as Microsoft stupendously bungled that experience.

It’s basically iOS at that point.

“If this is all surprising to you then you’re not talking with the women in your life.”

To be fair, maybe Lemmy is less social than “average”? I’m certainly contributing to that statistic.

…Still, as a guy, it’s kind of my experience everywhere. The longer I live, even as isolated as I am, the more I’m bewildered by other men being incapable of following the “don’t be a jerk” rule, incapable of shutting up and listening to women, or doing/saying straight up terrible, sexist things, all while knowing that’s the tip of the iceberg.

I can’t even imagine the experience of being a woman using Uber. It’s mind boggling that so many male commenters wag their fingers like they somehow do.

I buy that. It fits with literally all of Meta’s previous behavior and lobbying efforts.

I remember playing with Stable Diffusion in 2022, and thinking “Oh. That’s the end of NFTs.”

NFT art was stupid to begin with, of course, but SD was such a blatent, extreme inverse of the “artifical digital scarcity” angle. If I wanted a shitty, albeit “unique” and deterministically reproducible digital image, I could just make it in 30 seconds on a desktop. If I wanted a certain look, I could use img2img or eventually controlnet and all sorts of augmentations.

Yes, junky AI was junky AI, but ironically it was the antithesis of everything NFTs stood for. Instead of “digital information is worth commodifying at great expense,” it was “digital information is basically free.” And I still find it amusing that Tech Bros and con artists jumped from one ship to the other so quickly, or somehow have feet in both.

Man, that is not my experience at all.

I’m a guy. And even some of the things my (former) guy friends said about women and their relationships dropped my jaw. Same with some family.

The longer I live, the more I think “man… can my sex just not be such pricks? Please? It is not that hard.”

Yeah, I’ve seen some women abuse or take advantage of men too. But it’s not even close to so prominant with women I’ve known, especially when I dive into the issues and see what happened.

Came here expecting misogyny-adjacent comments.

…It met my expectations :/

I don’t mean being anonymous, but basic hygeine.

Block ads.

Use startpage or something instead of Google.

Avoid getting stuck on YouTube Shorts for hours, don’t trust ChatGPT implicitly. Maybe use a password manager.

It is not that hard. But, even compared to a dysfunctional person like me, people literally cannot help themselves, apparently.

No one cares.

Maybe I’m just down today, but most everyone I know is getting sucked into ChatGPT, short form videos, Discord, political extremism, getting screwed by the corporations they work for, you name it. They get their eyeballs scanned, they do the verification; no one cares. They aren’t even intrerested in basic privacy steps.

And even in things I have some expertise in (like transformers LLMs), I can’t talk anyone out of anything.

Even Lemmy feels like its spiraling.

It feels like humanity is losing.

Exactly!

Users generally don’t check citations though; they read and make a judgement. This is why Wikipedia, with all its flaws, is still such a valuable resource to me, as at least it’s built on citations.