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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 20:52:34 JST Aral Balkan

   Some designer designed this. That person is an asshole. Some developer coded it. That person is also an asshole. https://honeycomb.engineer/@olivvybee/114340908787943589

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 22:05:06 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jordi (Flopsome Opossum)

     @Jorsh A modern-day curse if ever there was one :)

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     Jordi (Flopsome Opossum) (jorsh@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 22:05:07 JST Jordi (Flopsome Opossum)

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     @aral

     I wish the plastic in their keyboards would meld with their fingers, making them incapable of typing.

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     unexpectedteapot (unexpectedteapot@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 04:24:48 JST unexpectedteapot

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     @aral on Hacker News there was a post yesterday titled "ex Googler" by someone who got fired for no reason. Most of the comments were along the lines of "yeah this is how the industry works". I don't even know where to start. It is almost like they all hate each other, themselves and everyone else by normalizing anything to do with these companies.

     The tech circles are incredibly pathetic and they need to be called out.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 04:25:37 JST Aral Balkan

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     • unexpectedteapot

     @unexpectedteapot Yep. And boy do they hate being called out. Ask me how I know :)

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:04:14 JST Aral Balkan

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     • marcink

     @marcink Seconded.

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     marcink (marcink@stolat.town)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:04:15 JST marcink

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     @aral Petition to make “fuck off” a legally required option in upsell popups.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:09:41 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Karen E. Lund 💙💛

     @Karen5Lund Don’t forget they’re VC-funded. They will go to shit eventually. They all do. (See the news section which is all Microsoft links, for example.) I’ve started using/paying for Kagi and it’s currently good.

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     Karen E. Lund 💙💛 (karen5lund@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 06:09:42 JST Karen E. Lund 💙💛

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     @aral I've been using the DuckDuckGo browser and its accompanying search engine on my tablet for a while and quite liking it.

     This morning I did a search and the first result was an AI synopsis of the subject.

     UGH!

     Then I noticed the little cog icon for settings. Clicked it. Presented with a list of options regarding how often I want to see AI results.

     Clicked "Never."

     We'll see. I'm hopeful.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 14:51:36 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Karen E. Lund 💙💛

     @Karen5Lund Not necessarily. Or, at least, some things are designed to avoid it as opposed to designed for it being it the success mode.

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     Karen E. Lund 💙💛 (karen5lund@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 14:51:37 JST Karen E. Lund 💙💛

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     @aral Have not heard of Kagi; I'll look into it.

     Sooner or later doesn't everything go bad?

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     Mad (mad@akko.wtf)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 18:23:03 JST Mad

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     • Karen E. Lund 💙💛
     @aral @Karen5Lund A subscription model as opposed to an advertising model is still based on a profit motive, so even if it's better it has to inevitably go to shit unless a different incentive takes over. I think the ultimate solution is distributed search, which would be run on a social incentive by communities, but a more private alternative like DDG is great for until we get there. If Kagi is the temporary alternative that works for you, great, but I'm perfectly happy using and, more importantly, recommending DDG.
     
     (I was also very pissed at the AI feature when it first popped up, but I immediately disabled it and have been pretending it never existed to begin with)