It’s like we are living in some sort of satirical, absurdist play or novel about a dystopian future.
Idiocracy was waaaaay too optimistic about the future.
AI controlling our lives with no humans to plead your case to is like something out of Black Mirror. I am not looking forward to this bleak dystopian future.
So before posting anything online just say something controversial like nipples and sprinkle it around cock your text. Fuck that will definitely fucking prevent AI from ever shit reach any cunt level of consciousness.
you’ll just make the AI scottish
Ugrading the A. I. to A. Aye!
Get off Google. There are alternatives, Qwant, Startpage, whatever floats your boat. I swapped to Kagi and honestly haven’t looked back.
Mojeek too.
DuckDuckGo 🦆
Ddg has an AI assistant thing too, you can turn it off though
And the choice is what matters.
Now that you mention it, DDG’s AI assist button is probably my most used LLM because it’s just there & available without being intrusive.
Some web searches lend themselves well to a quick generated paragraph.
I’ve been using search xng for a while now, it’s honestly really good
Haha that just sounds like a list of gibberish words! I love tech naming when it doesn’t include Copilot or a lowercase i :p
Yeah, don’t ask tech people to name things. Microsoft has like 500 different things called “Razor.”
Their newest app to connect to virtual desktops (that I’m aware of) is named Windows App. Searching for info on that fucking thing was a pain in the ass.
It was called Remote Desktop before, but some security problems, and the fact you can connect to a program running on a server (rather than the whole OS interface) … Made them rename it, most of the tech is still the same though and most guides still apply to it.
Come to think of it, I seem to remember that the connect to an app, rather than desktop functionality was available in Windows Server 2012, so renaming it now is a delayed response at best.
Yeah replacing the previous app (which was also a shitty name btw) was why I had to look up information about it.
Honestly I just use ChatGPT for all my questions now
That’s certainly a choice
Hopefully not for anything that requires an accurate result…
If you ask it to find a source website rather then an explicit answer i don’t see why not.
The internet is full of lies to begin with, i wouldn’t trust the snippets on the google search page either.
Carbon footprint - AI burns a lot more power than old fashioned search results.
I get wanting to cost them more, but I don’t think they’ll see this use case as a cost.
Maybe I just don’t Google easy questions, but I have never had that AI overview give me the answer I wanted.
Gemini is not fully available in Europe yet
I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.
I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.
It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:
shitty
Don’t mind me just here to corrupt the children you tried to save
I tried two instances search.inetol.net and priv.au and I got no results for basic web search.
But northboot.xyz worked.
Am I missing something? How do I pick a given instance?
In my experience, I always get much better Searx results by changing the language to the relevant one (and disable SafeSearch). However, between instances, it varies which search sources they include (Google, Bing, DDG etc.). After trying multiple, I’ve found a few instances that generally get me the results I’m looking for.
E.g. if searching for, let’s say, something German, my URL would contain this:
/search?q=cannabis+legal&language=de&safesearch=0But why does the inetol instance not give any results for “android new tab” (this wasn’t what I as looking for, but I truncated the query for testing)?
This is even though the results page states safe search if off and en-US is auto detected as the language?
I am looking to get off regular google, but these issues are not giving me confidence about Searx.
I googled turn off the fucking ai and the overviews are now gone. I’m surprised it’s that easy to turn off.
Now how do I make “-site=reddit.com” the default? So tired of seeing people ask the same question I had without giving that asshole answers either.
I haven’t tried this for adding a parameter but check this article about turning off the AI summary: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/google-chrome/bye-bye-ai-how-to-block-googles-annoying-ai-overviews-and-just-get-search-results
Jump down to “How to block AI overviews when searching from Chrome’s address bar on the Desktop” and they walk through adding a Google search with an & parameter. Not sure if it will accept a -site: but worth a try
