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| code logs -> 2023 -> Wed, 16 Aug 2023 | < code.20230815.log - code.20230817.log > |
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| 03:24 | < Kizor> | "Speaking of e-machines, I've just been thru the hoops with a client's brand-new "emonster 800."" |
| 03:25 | < Kizor> | "I was absolutely appalled. The whole damned thing is one huge marketing operation. Ad banners on the desktop at startup. Custom keyboard with buttons for every kind of shopping, but no real utilities. Phone-home "registration" widgets. Pop-up e-marketing survey."" |
| 03:25 | < Kizor> | "Free Special Offers, demos, commercial website links, etc., are everywhere; about a dozen sponsors' icons are on the desktop, with confusing and unclear labels, begging for the clueless to be taken in with a double-click." |
| 03:28 | < Kizor> | Interesting bit of history, and a look at what computers will be like in The Future(tm) when corporations make our life fun. |
| 03:37 | <&McMartin> | I was going to say, that sounds like 1998 |
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| 09:39 | < Alek> | McM, definitely. |
| 09:41 | < Alek> | anyone else remember the ad-supported "free" dialup applications that competed with AOL? |
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| 18:16 | < abudhabi> | Man, Bing is really, really bad. |
| 18:16 | < abudhabi> | I am uncomfortably reminded of using dial-up era search engines. |
| 18:22 | <@celticminstrel> | That's probably why searching Epic's documentation never seems to bring me to the page I'm looking for even when I know for a fact that it exists. |
| 18:23 | <@celticminstrel> | Occasionally it even brings me to a page that's nominally a "subpage" of the target page, but the actual target page isn't in the results at all. |
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| 19:18 | <~Vornicus> | https://twitter.com/linux_deepin/status/1691396817039314945 |
| 19:28 | <@macdjord> | Vornicus: D'awww. |
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| 23:10 | <@gnolam> | abudhabi: that's... all search engines now. :-/ |
| 23:12 | <@gnolam> | Regular Google is now just a shopping search engine. Looking for actual general purpose web pages, it's like being back in the dark old AltaVista days. |
| 23:12 | <@gnolam> | You have to condition the shit out of every search. |
| 23:14 | <@gnolam> | And I assume that everyone who's younger than, like, 35 has no idea /this is something you can even do/. |
| 23:15 | <@gnolam> | What pisses me off is that this isn't even due to AI bot spam: this is the search engines doing this to themselves. |
| 23:16 | <&Reiver> | Enshittification. |
| 23:16 | <&Reiver> | Startling to see it happen to what was once a key piece of internet infrastructure that just happened to be a commercial entity, innit. |
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