Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Punishment
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Google doesn’t even treat the quotes as a requirement anymore, just as a suggestion.
I was searching for something the other day, such as ‘blah blah text’. Google asked if I wanted results that must contain ‘text’ so I clicked on it and it changed to ‘blah blah “text”’.
The results were exactly the same. Except now the suggestion asked if the results must contain “text”. So I blocked that. And now the search was for ‘blah blah ““text””’
Google search is so shit now. Yes I know the add “Reddit” hack and I’m pragmatic about that. But are there any real search alternatives yet?
You’d think a proper non gamed search engine would know that a Reddit result is better than an SEO spam blog.
My mom used to rely on me to do anything technical because I was around, and I was pretty good at it. Since I’ve moved out, she went from calling me all the time about anything to do with the computer to experimenting and learning a bit before she calls me. Overall, I’m proud of her for branching out and doing something challenging. With that being said, the other day I watched her not only print out a website rather than bookmark it, but the way she printed it was by opening word, using print screen to screen cap the site, pasting the screen cap into word and then printing it from word.
Incredible problem solving skills. She knows word is the print program and she figured out how to get the stuff from the internet into the print program!
We grew up with the technology, and understand how it works on a more basic level. But if you don’t?
I’m really curious to see what will come along that will fuck with my understanding on the same level.
I am absolutely terrified of the potential of real time deep fakes combined with AI voice impersonations being used to scam the elderly. Obviously, that’s a ways off. But I fear it’s not that far off.
Well, I’m almost 49 and I honestly think AI is going to be my Achilles heel. It’s not that I don’t get it on a certain level, but I just don’t give a shit. To me, that’s when the understanding gap comes in, when you no longer care enough about the “latest thing” to be bothered.
Agreed. It’s not like not understanding technology is a causal consequence of age. Like you hit 55 and suddenly you don’t get it anymore. My dad is a baby boomer and he’s always had an interest in and thus was and still is good with computers, both hardware and software. That doesn’t go away. He’s less adept with smartphones though because he views them through a very utilitarian lense and doesn’t really experiment and thus doesn’t learn much about them. And he’s literally never made any social media account because he doesn’t give a fuck.
I’ve always been pretty curious about what technology will just baffle me, and at what age that tech wall will him me. I’m middle aged and tech is still easy for me. But I know that day will come.
I think it will have to be a completely different paradigm.
The boomers for instance were all into machines… like cars and engines. They services their own car… knew how to tune a timing belt etc. I still see old timers restoring and tinkering with cars or bikes etc.
I’m middle aged too and I think computers and software will always be intuitive. It’s our “car engines”.
The things which we’ll struggle with won’t be computer based because we “get” that already. It’ll have to be something out of left field for me I think.
I once met a man who was complaining about how much time he had to spend copying an email into a word processor. I realized that he had been doing it manually because he didn’t know that he could copy-paste.
and also typing only with index fingers constantly looking at the keyboard :‘( :’( :'(
There’s a special hell designed for vim users that also works like this.
