 Two thirds of Google searches already do not send the user to another website. That was in 2020 and it might have gotten worse since. I did not know that. https://sparktoro.com/blog/in-2020-two-thirds-of-google-searches-ended-without-a-click/ H/t @ben Oh ChatGPT, how confidently you print out an algorithm that cannot possibly be correct! I'm feeling like going to a doctor who skipped some classes in school and when encountering a patient with a condition they didn't learn about, they just make up some remedy. With extreme confidence in their demeanor. Come to think of it, I have known some doctors to do that. So maybe ChatGPT is more human than we think.... ouch!  @J12t I recall a series about a doctor with that argument exactly. It was Dr. Death. Oh gosh, no. It's exactly like him. My god.  @zackwhittaker Suddenly the seemingly ubiquitous very-well-informed scam calls following hotel bookings make even more sense.  @zackwhittaker I think you meant to write: “The check-in computers at several hotels around the U.S. are running a beta version of Microsoft Recall” 🎉🎟 One last time, XOXO returns this August 22–24 with three days of people and projects we love from the internet. Registration is now open, surveys close Wednesday, May 29! https://2024.xoxofest.com/ This year’s conference lineup includes Molly White of Web3 Is Going Just Great (@molly0xfff), Sweet Baby Inc’s Kim Belair, Folding Ideas documentarian Dan Olson, writer/researcher Erin Kissane (@kissane), Aftermath co-founder Gita Jackson, Pulitzer-winning journalist and author Ed Yong, and Hugo-winning author/podcaster Charlie Jane Anders (@charliejane). "Meta AI Chief Says Large Language Models Will Not Reach Human Intelligence" His peers must hate him! Tax billionaires with 2% of their wealth annually? Now here is an idea… https://www.ft.com/content/1f1160e0-3267-4f5f-94eb-6778c65e65a4 The ex-Bavarians among us got Weisswurst for -- shall we call it brunch? -- today. In California. And it's actually not bad. The Americans in the family also love it. So there is still hope for them. Sadly, no fresh Brez'n from Esther's. We made do with German Farmer's bread, which surprisingly, the local grocery store sells from a bakery in Santa Cruz. And Weisswurstsenf, which Dittmer's sells. Seriously pissed about this. Offering $10,000 in seed funding for a Deviant Art alternative built on ActivityPub. Q&A below or email your pitch to info@moth.social. https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html 
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 @bart Not surprising, especially since DA tried to not opt out with AI scanning the art for their "Art"  Wow! “… purchasing power … would already be 37% higher than it is now without global heating seen over the past 50 years” Over the years, have you grown more or less conservative? Anonymous poll
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 @Njord I try not to be an arse any more. And you know what? Life is better for everyone that way, including me. I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users. Anybody else see what he apparently sees? https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-ban-frank-mccourt-bytedance-liberty-china-app-1851478825 @J12t It could be a pipe dream, but he might be able to pull it off. If he did manage to get it, I hope he learns lessons from the former BirdSite's happenings.  @J12t his most recent idea for a "better Internet" was blockchain nonsense, so I don't see him actually doing anything good with it https://www.axios.com/2022/09/20/me-we-project-liberty-frank-mccourt Apple fail. Today, my Mac's available disk space keeps dropping. I keep deleting stuff and disk space keeps dropping to where applications stop working and I apparently have less than 100M left. I'm panicking a bit because I keep deleting things and it gets worse not better. Finally, I kill time machine. I haven't deleted any more files and have not done anything since, but now I have 135G free on disk. What the? @J12t Also spend some time excluding directories that maybe don’t need to be included in snapshots like ~/Downloads or ~/Library/Mail Anybody know what triggers a profile re-fetch in #mastodon ? After an instance accessed a remote account for the first time, it fetches name, avatar, number of followers etc. When will it fetch it next to potentially update?  @J12t The profile info like name, etc is trigger when the instance receives the event (user.updated I think). As for posts/followers, I’ve never been clear on that.  @J12t when we receive an Update for this account, and more recently when we receive a new status and the account has not been refreshed in the last 7 days YouTube just showed me a Google Gemini ad. I have no idea what they just said. Something something bewildering new era. What? Immediate reaction: I’m tempted to short them. |
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@J12t @ben it is much worse these days. Latest updates to google mean it will be more like 90% of "searches" will tell you on that device in google what the AI decides you want, not what you actually want...
@J12t @ben this is so wildly inaccurate and imprecise, for both readings!
It’s impossible to know what % of zero-click search are things like “time in SFO”.
Likewise, impossible to know if non-zero clicks are searches like “pinterest” or “amazon” cause people are lazy or don’t want to be phished.