You can make shortcuts/bangs, and you can create “lenses”, which allow you to create filter presets on your queries.

There’s a default fediverse one available.

DDG uses Bing’s index I believe, so they’re just reranking results for you + proxying queries. The big indexes are generally low quality and DDG can show you only results from them. Kagi seems to train theirs on small web and uses user rankings to adjust, which helps a lot.

They are not without issues, they’ve been pushing for open indexing as indexing is getting harder due to AI scrapers. Cloudflare and Reddit for example make it much harder now (Reddit has an exclusivity deal with Google), but I do get results from both.

I do not regret it.

I don’t really use the bangs to use Google instead like I did on duck duck go. I think I’ve used them a few times in a year, and heat when I was deep into not finding something which I continued to not find on google.

I haven’t had to rerank sites in a while

You can get the AI answers if you append a question mark to your query, or you can use !ki to use the AI researcher tool. It’s all opt in. They’ll also tell you how much of your AI budget you’ve used.

Under the good Kagi is an “AI” search engine using BERT architecture, which is similar to Google (it takes your natural language question and searches that, instead of classical keyword based search). That doesn’t mean it doesn’t work or doesn’t respect keywords, but sometimes you do have to quote keyword groups to enforce them.

I’m pretty sure their index is built at a higher quality than Google who are trying to answer every low quality query and maximize metrics.

It sounds like letting Willy Wonka fuck you

To quote my manager from today: “I don’t want us to spin our wheels and turn this into a month long effort”

The request is to effectively rearchitect a foundational part of the system. It’s a large lift project that should take weeks.

Of course I pushed back, I have good rapport with him and I’m not worried about getting fired over this. Not everyone has that.

My experience is if NatPo writes it, it’s not worth reading.

In my opinion it’s the most biased major news outlet in the country.

What are you saying here?

Oh hey, next sprint we’re going to work on that!

Oh, there’s a feauture request from sales you say? Hard due date of Thursday? But that’s a really big feature we can’t just… okay fine, but the next sprint we’re need to work on tech debt.

If it’s so easy you just TAKE IT.

Is it not easy?

It’s not correct to say social media is why kids are turning right wing.

A massive societal failure to meet boys where they are or engage with them for decades is largely at fault. Not parenting boys is a problem. Shutting down men’s issues discussions falsely as misogyny is a problem.

The right wing podcasters went and saw that these kids were lost and they lied to them and sold them out. That’s why we are where we are.

And those kids will be able to listen to Spotify or watch YouTube and will have no issue with finding Joe Rogan or Andrew Tate without ID. That’s not social media at all, it’s broadcast and hosted websites. Tate even offers a school to teach kids for fees and takes in millions. That won’t be getting tied up in social media bans either.

I just can’t watch us go “the only prevention is spying and giving up all personal autonomy”. It’s the subject of nightmares and 80 years of dystopian books. But now Meta is paying billions lobbying to track everyone everywhere and we fucking love it.

If your kid will go to the lengths of buying burner phones, SIMs, and hoarding devices to get past your age restrictions, they’ll go to the effort of using a friend’s ID or buying a fake one too.

There is no perfect solution here, but the presented age restrictions are orders of magnitude worse than doing nothing if you ask me.

These problems are not pure social media problems, they’re societal problems we can’t keep pretending are just due to bad people tricking kids on Facebook and Instagram and TikTok.

I do think parenting better is a lot of the problem though.

You don’t have to buy kids phones, and you can set up parental controls. Parental controls have always been annoying and imperfect, but nobody bothers to set them up. For years parents have been setting up Facebook accounts for their kids too to post photos of whatever, bit that conf just be a freaking email.

And even with a ban, social media doesn’t magically stop being a problem when you’re 16 or 18. 20 year olds are less happy with it. 30 year olds are too.

So yeah, I’m okay with a minimum age on social media, but everyone just faked that before. I’m okay with on device attestation of age, in theory, but who gets to decide what’s “mature”? If Polievre had won we would be blocking LGBTQ and pro trans content already.

Seriously, this tech fucking terrifies me. It’s end game for democracy, protests, gay rights, minority rights, privacy, controversial politicians, and any corporate competition.

So here’s what I’m not okay with:

• building a (US run) surveillance state, where everything you look at and do is logged to your government profile
• having to apply for a wank permit, or sharing my own sure with the government.
• building a nanny state that can just block all access to LGBTQ different
• making it impossible for Canadian companies to succeed because of unreasonable regulatory capture

I never read the National Post, it’s usually biased and unreliable.

Probably not.

I had “continues to escalate until nukes” on my bingo card, I hadn’t thought much of “gets bored and leaves broken toy on the floor”.

With all the solar mirrors, won’t we overhear the sun shooting all that light back?

Two 9’s, the pinnacle of reliability.

And that’s why I want to see someone else take their data and do this justice

If you click though to the study instead of reading the drivel summarizing it for profit they have two graphics about time to data center and temperature.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403073048_The_data_heat_island_effect_quantifying_the_impact_of_AI_data_centers_in_a_warming_world/fulltext/69c21ebcac3812287560e46e/The-data-heat-island-effect-quantifying-the-impact-of-AI-data-centers-in-a-warming-world.pdf?origin=publication_detail&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uRG93bmxvYWQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ

This study is crap.

No statistical significance, control groups, numbers, or models. Just rolling average temperature vs temperature.

They don’t say how they filter out trends or seasonality. They don’t look at switch point models or do difference in difference. And it’s a non reviewed preprint.

This research needs an actual statistician to use their data and fix it, because as is, this is not worth seriously discussing.

This is fucking hilarious.

It rewrites the description so unless you view the in app edit history it looks like you are endorsing this ad!

Who the fuck shipped this lol

hey dad I found a recipe to make crystals in the bathroom!