I've been looking for a good news aggrigator that is customizable as an alternative to google news for many years. Google news seems a little abandoned by google, and, I'm pretty certain, the button that says "Fewer stories like this" doesn't actually do anything at all.

The profile it builds on you can be very annoying. For example it somehow got the idea that I was very very interested in news about Kanye West, despite never searching for him or clicking on articles about him and ignoring my fewer stories like this requests.

Can anyone tell me about a good alternative?

Google: "Why can't you search for normal things like everybody else? Our ai is great at answering questions like 'where to buy a tv?' and 'who is Leonardo DiCaprio dating?" and "weather". If those things don't satisfy your every need I don't know what to say. Just because we're a search engine doesn't mean you're supposed to use it to search for difficult to find things. Search for normal things like a normal person, assholes."

Build a company that runs ai to check legal cases for AI-created errors that could lead to retrials, aquittals, etc - and lawsuits against negligent law firms that fumbled someone's case because they clearly used a lot of ai.
And check newspapers for AI-created errors that could lead to libel cases and lawsuits.
And lawsuits against police agencies that used AI to build a false and misleading case against someone.
There's money to be made I tell ye! THERE"S GOLD IN THEM HILLS!!!!

its Betteridge's Law of Headlines, not Betteridge's Law of any Question Whatsoever.

Together Google and Meta paid like 7 million because they lost these cases. They could afford to pay 1000x that without breaking a sweat. I'll bet the lawyer's fees on the winning side were much higher than the money the plaintiffs actually ended up recieving.

Yeah, if they keep egrigiously pushing addictive content on kids they MIGHT get more serious fees levied on them, but they have other options, getting politicians to make laws exempting them from lawsuits is a popular measure these days, for example.

Youtube probably can only benifit from age verification, as you point out.

Facebook - I'm not so sure. I don't know any kids who think being on facebook is cool anyway, and putting up more barriers might just make it even more of a dead website than it already is. Zuck's remarkably poor management, dumb ideas and brutal enshittification might actually hurt his company someday. Not yet though, they're still swimming in money.

This guy gets it. Subservience gets you nowhere. Even more so these days.

In 2015 Harvard University professor Harvey Silverglate estimated that daily life in the United States is so over-criminalized the average American professional commits about three felonies a day.

I'm starting to get the sense that the next big hype is going to be Quantum Computing after people realize that the only people who use AI to make money are computer programmers, people making porn and scammers.

IBM's stock is down a lot rn, this might be a good time to buy if you belive in the company.

Yeah me too. It just feels stupid to buy ram, ssd and GPUs at this price.

Cheap chinese RAM and SSD are coming and testing seems to indicate they're almost as good as the old stuff, so I hope my hardware will last until prices go down. GPU prices though - it may be a while.

Yeah, I don't belive facial recognition holds up as it is vs people trying to trick it. In the future it will become even more difficult, as there will be more platforms that use it and thus more incentive to break it.

So: they'll start requiring us to show more stuff. Our IDs, our SSNs, etc. Even though I think bots are a big problem, there's no way I'll ever be giving them that kind of information just to use reddit.

"An US government directive can also lock out a whole country."

Yeah! This is why a lot of countries and companies are moving away from MS. In the long term it will mean MS's doom, but it will take a while. Nobody talks about it but some things need to be trusted, even if its just a tiny amount of trust, and MS lost that last year. You can't really get it back either.

Is it "Full self driving" as defined by the meaning of those 3 words put together? No? Ok then. Can you summon your car from anywhere and sleep in it while it drives across the country in difficult weather conditions, like he promised it would be 6 years ago? No? Ok then. Can you understand why people are tired of having this conversation with tesla stans? No? Ok then.

True! I don't feel bad feelings towards the average MS coder, they're cool and, I suspect, if someone put them entirely in charge, windows would become a decent OS.

Its deeply part of their culture to be hostile to their users, they know it, their users know it, its been this way for decades, continually getting worse. Even if they do make a few positive changes to windows 11, you know windows 12 will be worse. At some point they are going to make themselves obsolete though, nobody likes them, people just need to take that big step and install another OS, which is hard, but gets easier the worse Windows gets. I hope they require age verification with windows 12 so that young people will learn to use Linux.

If I remember correctly predict it predicted trump losing in 2016 winning in 2020 and in 2024. Although the 2020 one predicted Biden until November 3rd when it switched to trump for 1 day, which was kinda funny. I still remember how pissy the people who lost that bet were.