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I don't need a 27-page novel to know the temperature and time to cook something. I also don't want to he directed to Pintrest and be required to have an account. Honestly, I've started using Bing more often.
Yeah honestly. The Google ad-based search system created a set of incentives that just destroyed the internet! I miss the days when people created their own fun little quirky websites like Ian's Shoelace Site. That used to be every site on the internet!
Holy crap I remember that
But do you remember Geocities?
I had an Angel fire site
Every 3-5 years, I go and check on my Angelfire. It's still there today.
https://ibb.co/WPH835P
Your old site isn’t just fire, it’s angelfire!
Lucky! Mine's gone, and I honestly can't remember if I deleted it
Am I old if I remember xoom?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter/
I would like a Firefox add-on that filters out sites where recipe ingredients are measured in cups and the recipes contain butter and sugar when they shouldn't, thanks very much
Adding "UK" used to work, but doesn't anymore
But noodles aren't that difficult to make
I also don't want to need an add-on for every niche thing I like to look at.
The Google habit is hit the third link, scroll to fourth paragraph, your answer should be around there somewhere.
Try Brave Search, Duckduckgo, Startpage, or Searxng. For more detail on these recommendation (that I definitely did not just steal), check out the Privacy Guides page, or The New Oil for a different, albeit overlapping, set of recommendations and take on search engines.
Best not to use brave since it's a front for crypto. Other's are okay
DuckDuckGo has recently become a not very useful search engine too, it still has way way better queries than Google though.
Going back usually shuffles the search results and after like 5 results there's just a bunch of random entries based on your geolocation.
Avoid the browser but I've been using their search on Firefox. Really like the AI summarizer and the results are also good.
I disagree! It's best to not use Brave since it's a front for a homophobe.
Did the Privacy Guides drama ever get resolved re: PrivacyTools. I recall one was split off from the other over draaaamaaa.
I mean I guess. They aren't actively fighting or anything like that to my knowledge. I personally think the Privacy Guides is the better resource, because PrivacyTools has vpn recommendations like Nord and Surfshark with affiliate links that are not actively disclosed from my quick check.
You mention brave but no mention of kagi? Kagi is way better than DDG too.
No joke, Bing Chat is considerably better at finding answers than any search engine I've used in recent years. I don't even bother googling things anymore. Just ask the AI.
I just ask ChatGPT these days.
I'm just starting to learn HTML and oh my fucking god do I LOVE chatGPT... Holy hell... I can't even begin to express just how amazing it is to be able to ask basic questions and not only get a reply, but provide example code, and it will elaborate or be as concise as you like... I LOVE IT! I'm especially happy to see they don't ask for your phone number and other absurdly intrusive unnecessary information anymore. That's what kept me away at first.
I do know it's not infallible and I probably won't use it as much as I move on to more complex programming.
I do fairly complex programming and still use chat gpt. It will contribute to be helpful to say “write me a function that does this” rather than “how do I code this”
Yeah it is kind of like the "trust, but verify" paradigm. It will likely generate useful code or a very good starting point, but you should always check if it actually does what you expect it to.
You can't trust them blindly. But They're very helpful in your day to day tasks.
No kidding. Just earlier today, I was looking for a kind of niche tool used to wrap pallets in plastic, and I found nothing on google about it. It kept showing me everything BUT what I was looking for.
On bing, I found just about all of the information I needed about it. Turns out it's niche partially because it's made in my province, which I also found out from bing. Almost no one knows what I'm referring to when I mention it. It combines the technology of machine wrapping and hand wrapping, and it makes warehousing much easier sometimes. I wanted to recommend it to someone. Thanks Bing!
Is it much different from a pallet wrapper? A big platform you can set a pallet on loaded with stuff and it spins? And you hold what's like a yard wide rolling pin with plastic wrap on it to wrap the pallet as it spins?
me too