Also, the majority of us (in said minority) are probably running ad / tracking blockers (I run uBlock Origin on Waterfox with NoScript - which probably makes it easy to fingerprint me .. if not precisely, then as someone who is not going to watch/see their ads).

So yeah it would need to be a nonprofit or a paid engine.

I really liked the idea of Kagi but their reliance on Yandex (Russian owned /operated engine which Putin has had increasing say over since 2019)

I mean, I think somewhere there are projects that have made their crawler result set available - maybe there's room for a nonprofit to build a better interface / search on one of those?

I dunno, it's one thing to understand on a high level "we need a reliable up to date index, and then make a fair, transparent search system that implements a patent-free ranking algorithm (is Page rank up yet?) and just searches using provided keywords and respects 'exact quoted phrases', but it's quite another to build something that can keep that index updated, and that can handle queries at scale and not cost so much that its impossible to do without an advertising model.

Are we great again yet?

Ok Ok low effort reply there but truthfully this is a direct example of brain drain due to an administration that is downright hostile to science. We used to be the envy of the world in terms of our research institutions and science.

The more the nationalists try and keep others out and the more they make science into a political point the more folks are going to just give up on America.... and I don't blame them. If I had any "in" elsewhere (family history, available opportunity) I'd leave

Sorry in truth I really wish they hadn't made science and education and many peoples very humanity and human rights political...

I'm ambivalent on this... On the one hand - google killing yet another thing they bought and then threw out after picking the parts

On the other hand, I can't stand emojis and pointless animated gifs.

Turnip Logic: if we don't collect the data then there is no climate change.

if we stop requiring measles cases to be reported, then there is no measles outbreak.

If they have a towel over their head they can't see me - which means I guess I can't see them.

I had much the same thought (on the "this couldn't possibly end poorly" response to trusting AI to code this...

But I stuck around for the AI bubble tie in -

100% agree

I hate the AI hype and BS so much I just can't wait for that bubble to pop but yeah it's going to reveal we're in a recession.

The "good" news is that we already are in a recession - like when the bubble pops it won't suddeny make one - we are already here but it WILL finally affect the stock trading/speculation class

I'm hoping when the bubble does pop, the pressure for companies to put all their eggs into AI basket will vaporize and maybe some of them will realize that they need to back out of that track, stop trusting/using AI for hiring and coding and support and maybe eveentually they'll hire humans again.

Naah surely there will be yet another bubble/grift/magic bean

The promise of AI that CEOs find irresistable is that it provides them all the upsides of being on the master end of slavery without all that pesky moral (legal) complications. Except of course if they ever actually did get true AGI - to my mind that would mean sapience and once it's sapient then it would be ... slavery

Sorry this went off on a tangent but just honestly for better or worse I am an accelerationist - not of AI but of the bubble bursting - so we can get on with maybe putting an economy/society back together not based on "but if we throw enough power and chips at the word-guessing machine it might learn to cure cancer"

My first thought was

"""
"what did you expect from a porn site..

oh wait, oh whitehouse dot GOV not dot COM

Oh yes, indeed sorry, my bad, I should have realized- the porn site would not have been so sloppy.
"""

But on a serious note, I just about guarantee this hot mess was vibe coded and "the developer" is just some grifter who went all in on the "lets get a piece of the trump grift"

Like honestly, the whole corruption/grift machine from the trump admin is actually a sort of working "trickle down grift"

The majority is indeed at the top but all these dedicated hangers on glom on to it hoping to get a bit of the spillage and/or it's a grift franchise where someone convinced turnip they can turn him a profit by "making an app" and likely get 20-30% of the population to willingly install it .. because Turnip

I've always thought his hatred of windmills / wind power was delusional/psychotic

yes I know it's something about him hating how they looked offshore of some golf course he owned or something but.. seriously

Donald J Quixote

is modern-day tilting at windmills

I hate how MS apps I am forced to use for work (Outlook, Teams, word, excel, etc...) have these popup "helpful" tooltips

yes you can set the apps to not show them but MS decides to force new ones anyway

yes theres a registry key you can set to "Ok already bothered me TWICE on this" but it requires getting a list of tips / IDs to put in a reg file as it's a case of:

"to stop the tip you put an entry in this registry key then set the value to one that tells Windows 'yes already showed this twice'"

its so frigging lame

Don Quixote would be proud of how hard turnip is tilting at windmills...

I get the man dislikes them because he thinks they're ugly and mess up his golf course views or something.. but my gods we are living in the most stupid timeline

I would not normally really make "political" posts on /. but this isn't politics it's a cult of stupidity.

I believe Ubiquiti Unifi gear is made in Vietnam.

How soon before they accidentally an airliner full of civilians?

Seriously, this is the STUPIDEST timeline

They're far more church/religion like than you might think

They're also an anti LGBTQIA+ hate group

Wait, I thought these guys never met a regulation they didn't want to cut/remove..

Clean air regulation? naaah let them breathe toxins

Clean water regulation? Naaah its their fault if they drink poop

AntiTrust rule? naah not if its one of the companies that donated a million to the turnips innaugeration or came and kissed his rings

It goes on and on (oh and yeah I realize I did the rule of threes here and so um

Anti Nebulon of Praxis 3 rule? naaah that was just something Captain Kirk said to make it sound science fictiony after mentioning 3 things we do know about on Earth

Anyway, yeah I don't think AI writing anything is a good idea, but the weirdness of hearing about folks in this administration talking about wanting to make more

You're exactly right this is "flooding the zone" for sure..

I used to love reading dystopian cyberpunk speculative fiction when I was younger but now that I live in a dystopian cyberpunk future, I kind of really am soured on the whole genre. Someone please make it stop.

I must have had my head under a rock or something cuz this is the first I've heard of Rogozinski but based on what little I've read .. and seeing your comment Yeah, I think you're 100% right - the question is will Nebula, Patreon, and others who have increasingly become ways for notable creators to host and monetize outside of yootoob's functional monopoly - with this ruling, how long before YooToob makes a move like that exactly as you say .. because ... enshittification.

Truth is that enshittification as a business model is pretty much the future we are going to inherit... and of course then the worry is what happens if / when Nebula and Patreon and the alternatives turn as well.

Constant game of content creators needing to find new less enshittified homes - it's .. depressing.

This is unquestionably true.

It seems to me that these big tech CEOs are so divorced from reality, and so focused tickig the boxes that "the market" wants to see; which - with AI being extremely good at telling you what you want to hear without worrying overly about .. objective fact or reality... strikes me as "Yeah AI can do that job easy"