MattyRad

Now I'm embarrassed about all of this wailing and gnashing of teeth. Excellent pointer, thank you!

Will Google combat the low quality internet? If not, search will continue to degrade, so what alternatives exist? That's the thrust of this surprisingly vehement discussion.

This is the behavior that should be penalized by search engines- however difficult it is to quantify. Wikipedia is some of the highest quality info on the internet, so they should be able to afford the penalty themselves.

- It contains 100% signal- no noise- and provides helpful related links if you need more information.

- Pages are organized and brutalist.

- Every page has a steward who (thanklessly) keeps the information accurate, up-to-date, and ad-free.

Contrast this to Google:

- 50-100% noise (depending on the query; more information requires more queries and therefore less signal)

- SERP pages are disorganized and absolutely riddled with UX dark patterns (modals, banners, autoplaying video, etc). Many pages with good info are over-styled/over-javascripted/over-languaged, and finding the one or two sentences you're looking for is a chore.

- One-off SEO spam plagues everything; ads and affiliate links are pervasive. Stewardship is a waste of time.

I don't think we all agree on what the impact of Firefox market share evaporation is, but my main concern is Google having totalitarian control of the internet: the Browser and Search.

To combat that, I would focus on decreasing the reliance on browser specific tech (specifically: javascript, but also html/css, and maybe HTTP to a certain degree), ensuring that that the web can be browsed without being at the mercy of the client. Return to servers front-loading the entirety of web content. Obviously this would require a massive cultural shift.... The ethics of web dev would have to be shared by vegan-comparable evangelists. (I realize how unrealistic this is after typing it)

I would also try to produce a PoC search engine that mercilessly punishes the ad-driven web, which - we've all noticed- is becoming increasingly pervasive.

Accomplishing these two things, I wouldn't be too concerned about Firefox specifically. Obviously these are immense- perhaps unrealistic goals- but it's what comes to mind.

If you do try it out, please _please_ ignore all the gimmicky effects (yes, including burning windows)- they're a distraction from the pure utilitarianism that compiz offers.

Just now I experienced: weird keymaps (C-? C-? to do things, including exit... do I have to Google keymaps, read docs about keymaps, remap keys to my own preferences, or just memorize existing keymaps?), signaling EOF (normally Ctrl-d) doesn't quit (gives a weird error "mark not set"), not knowing which buffer I'm looking at or how to list/switch buffers, no (initial) mouse support, no idea how to search and replace, no idea if spawning multiple cursors is possible.

All that in a span of ~5 minutes. I'm not trying to hate on emacs, just trying to list some pain points of the UX.

I'd be willing to give another emacs dotfile a shot, but I think it'd have to be even simpler than this one.

Just like searching for recipes, searching baby names can be a miserable SEO-hijacked/ad-stuffed slog, so this really makes a difference.

I did encounter a small bug: I use Android (Pixel 5), the sharing tab wasn't working for me, I get a "Something went wrong sharing your names list" error. But we just texted the list to each other to share names, so it worked out.

`ddgr --expand --noprompt --json 'best bicycles under 500' | jq --raw-output '.[] | select(.title | test("^(?!\\d.$)."))' | jq --raw-output '. | [.title, .url]| @tsv'`

[1] https://github.com/jarun/ddgr

For example, say you suggested "God does not exist" to a Christian. More often than not you'll receive an emotional response: "You're going to hell, is that what you want?!", "So life is meaningless to you?", "I feel sorry for you", etc.

Say you suggested to a "Progressive Activist", something as objective as "You should defend the right to display the Confederate flag (while condemning the action itself)". Progressive Activists become irrevocably distracted by the emotional injustice that the Confederate flag represents to them. Responses often include: "No, those people are pieces of shit, fuck them", "Racists", "They're what's wrong with this country", etc.

The emotional disposition of Christians and "Progressive Activists" are nearly identical.

https://github.com/ory/keto/issues/47

It's a impressive example of high functioning discourse: all the participants provide valuable insight, state concerns, elegantly summarize very complex issues, and show a lot of respect to each other; great gains are made as a result. It's worth reading in its entirety.

Some of the geocaches are incredibly clever too. Just yesterday I found a geocache on a hike. The hike was in the high desert (sagebrush mostly) where there was a lot of debris (ancient rusted cars, shotgun shells, wood pallets, etc). I was having trouble finding the cache which was GPS-ed next to a felled tree, when I noticed two shotgun shells, one yellow, one red, pushed inside each other, on the ground near the log. I thought to myself that's weird, someone was sitting on this tree log futzing with empty shotgun shells, then I continued my search. I would have overlooked it if it weren't for the hint: "blends in". Sure enough, the cache was inside the two shells! I was the 3rd person to ever find it. Very satisfying!

I think your solution of promoting positivity to management positions carries its own concerns though, such as promoting naive yes-men, or "fronting" positivity so much that it becomes fake (for example, the "failure == success" bit from Silicon Valley HBO, if you're familiar https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u3o8Cygx1EU)

That being said I still think you have an insightful response, thank you.

I think you've touched on something essential here. It may explain the continuous appeal of open source.

Maybe it also explains how even though work is perpetually exhausting, somehow I still find energy to work on side projects, just so I can feel some uninhibited creativity.

I'm also reminded of a cynical quote from my dad. When I was young I asked him "Was work fun?" to which he responded "If work was fun they wouldn't pay you."

- fully random bolding

- long, rambling, not entirely coherent (understandable given the subject matter, of course. however, the author also has a PHD?)

- inconsistent naming, e.g. iBuddy

- broad conclusion that doesn't fully match the content

- a nondescript screenshot which doesn't implicate anybody

- separated into 5 segments ("parts"), although the segments aren't narratively meaningful

- a huge list of accusations (of varying degrees of believably) interwoven as though they were more related textually rather than contextually

I hope it's not GPT-3, and that if this is true the victim gets their due justice, but it's worth consideration.

For projects that have gitter/slack/chat, I've jumped in and said thanks. I've also considered sending thanks through the email addresses provided in package control (although it seems a bit weird emailing strangers, especially when you're not explicitly seeking a response). Starring a repo is also an (admittedly small) way to show thanks. What are some other ways to reach out?

For example, just tonight, I wasn't sure exactly the status of bars: whether they are allowed to be open (legally), which ones might choose to be open (socially), which ones have favorable conditions (physically; outdoor seating, mask regulation, that sort of thing). When I asked my friends about the general status, they were somewhat incredulous.

Regardless, I had a nice time socializing, until my girlfriend and I went back to the car, and she immediately started a very uncomfortable diatribe on which of our friends she suspected were Republican based on innocuous comments of recent events.

I guess my point is that even if you try to abstain from the toxicity of current events and of the news, your friends and families can drag you back down, and I don't know how to improve the situation.

Yikes:

> wget -O - -q 'https://reddit.com/r/unixporn/new.json' | jq

I just want the links:

> wget -O - -q 'https://reddit.com/r/unixporn/new.json' | jq '..|.permalink? | select(.)'

I will say that their frequent listicles, however, tends to feel exploitative... Primer currently has "8 Essential Innovations That Make Hot Summers More Bearable" as its headline, which feels like a not-so-subtle "hey, here's some affiliate links to click on"

This is a huge timesaver, because if product decides to change the frontend, you haven't committed huge resources to the backend. Building software front-to-back helps people agree on what needs to get built.

a Mexican dish of dried Mexican anchovies topped with grilled onions, anchovies, and tomatoes

"a tamarino with sherry cream sauce"

Personally I like to serve my tamarino with a side of anchovies.

As an example, the article brought up Craigslist; renowned for its brutalism. Craigslist would only be hindered by any frontend changes: arbitrary and confusing interface changes, (necessarily) slower load times, and increased complexity.

That said, I agree with the article that HTML form UX often requires more advance strategies like React and Vue. The decision requires discretion, of course.