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Every app has to have fucking AI now for some reason.
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Admit it. You did want a new cocktail though didn’t you.
AI is how we’ll extract money and knowledge from people and give it to corporations…or so the people behind the corporations think.
I hate it so much. I want to do one simple search. Instead I get bullshit ad google links that are irrelevant, then MS MS Edge pushes me into Copilot for more garbage, which I have to mouse out of. Stract has become by search engine to get back the nostalgia of when the web wasn’t all shit
Thanks for the suggestion. What differences have you noticed compared to Google. Do you always find what you’re looking for. Have you tried searching niche stuff like some really old painting or an obscure compiler error etc.
Weird that it gave me a link to franchise a taco joint when I searched for tacos near me.
You want tacos? Open a taco shop.
I wouldn’t consider “tacos near me” a representative search; google specifically optimizes searching for products and especially local food.
I just searched for “first speedrun” and the first few results are decent but wrong, and the videos, shorts, and related searches after the first 2 entries are complete garbage.
Being served 70% links to products sucks when searching anything related to a product isn’t fun either.
Fair point. I don’t think it’s ready to become a default search engine as of now.
Oh, whoops, I wasn’t comparing Stract, I was comparing Google. Those are the reasons I don’t use Google search, I hadn’t tried Stract yet.
After trying it, it seems cool. Not the best at broad meanings though. “Ram” returns an Indian politician as the “answer”, a site in Japanese for the first link, and then mostly results for Random Access Memory after. No reference to the Dodge Ram (thank Odin), but also no reference to male sheep.
It also feels very anti-store, which is a nice change, but might ve an artifact of the seemingly anti-SEO stance, with random results from anywhere. Maybe that’s just the European focus?
It also has issues with getting context from multiple keywords, and doesn’t prioritize say “street car” over pages that happen to contain both “street” and “car”. Excluding keywords with “-” works though, very nice. Quotes can help with phrases to, so " “street car” " finds exactly things called “street car” with the space. Both still miss streetcars though. Misspelling corrections are offered but not assumed, which is very nice.
Definitely the biggest issue is the seemingly random results. This might be good if you’re searching for an exact string that is only present in a few places, but anything common and it’s a crapshoot. It’s nearly unable to find anything to do with shamrocks, prefering to find business’ named Shamrock.
Ah, gotcha.
You realise that this is because Microsoft spent billions of dollars on what amounts to a new version of “Clippy” and it’s just as helpful as the original.
If you’re unfamiliar with the abomination, it’s a dumber version of Copilot.
Oh, I’m somewhat familiar. Our school computer lab when setup had all windows 95 machines and I later got a xp at home so I got to play with office 2000 and such.
Iirc it never was able to help me with something. I thought they put in a interactive mascot or something. Like a mini-game you can play with while typing a letter to your principal.
Copilot has been little helpful sometimes though when I want to generate images of things made out of jeans.
Wait, clippy was supposed to be helpful?
Yeah, “Microsoft helpful”, not actually helpful.
a new version of “Clippy” and it’s just as helpful as the original.
And somehow infinitely less charming
If they make it look like a paperclip and almost as useful I’d consider it
Skype still… exists?
It is Microsoft Teams now, but older installs had it called Skype for Business
Uh it’s still skype for personal use
Yeah, likely they’re using the same backend to provide voip services (maybe skype’s backend just scaled up) . Teams must’ve borrowed something from skype given how haphazardly it was developed and released.
I mostly use it to make international calls cause sometimes the country my folks are living in shuts down the cellular internet for some reason when major exams/riots are happening and whatsapp stops working.
Imaging telling a whole nation of people they can’t use internet on their 500+ dollar phone. The fuck did they buy them for, playing temple run?
South Korea? I heard they are insane when it comes to exams.
Algeria, Syria, Iraq and Jordan apparently. Source: https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/2024/05/31/exam-cheating-internet-blackout/
India. Small correction, they don’t shut it down for entire country, just the state ditricts the exams are happening in.
India still seems to be leading country doing shutdowns though.
Btw you can suggest them the Briar messenger app. It can send messages via nearby peoples phones if they also have Briar. So if enough people installed it, a city could have it’s own messaging network even when the official one is down
Nice, I don’t think I’ll be able to convince the whole city to install it though :-)
Maybe you could suggest it to people who organize protest
Good point.
Those “briar clients” still use the “same” internet…
It could work if clients/nodes would exchange data using other channel (lora/bluetooth/etc)
It could work if clients/nodes would exchange data using other channel
That’s exactly what it does
Riots I get, but…exams? You’re telling me that they’ll shutdown the entire countries cellular internet…to stop some students from… cheating?
Yup, they shut it off for a couple of hours during exams so students won’t cheat.
Or at least, won’t cheat using the internet.
Bloated UI, now with brand new AI bloat 👌
Why the hell does everything have to have AI now??
To rip off investors. If they pretend to be on the same hype train as everyone else, and lie about what their product does, there’s a chance some idiot will give them more money.
Fuckin’ hell, investors don’t know shit about the shit they are investing in do they, if all you need to do is slap some bullshit buzzwords on it and they’ll suck your dick.
I can see an infinite number of meetings with management figures and/or investors asking:
“Everyone in tech is talking about AI and we are tech, hightech even so, are we not? So, what do we / what does your department do with AI?”
It’s like millions of voices silently crying out in pain.
It’s a buzz word.
ChatGPT came out and all the other tech companies like Google freaked the fuck out because they weren’t first to the market.
In response they started adding AI to Google search.
Well, Microsoft can’t let that stand either so now they’re both in a mad dash to put it in fucking everything before the other guy does.
That’s like 50% ads on your screen
