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tb_ , 17 days ago to world in The mpox outbreak never ended in Africa. Now a deadlier strain is spreading.

Yeah but my short term gains!

tb_ , 17 days ago to news in Police release bodycam from outside Uvalde classroom shooting

It certainly went over my head

tb_ , 18 days ago to news in Police release bodycam from outside Uvalde classroom shooting

Was clicking on the article to check really too much of an effort to you?

tb_ , 19 days ago to news in Trump Mixes-Up Black Men on Chopper Ride, Threatens to Sue

Holiday

tb_ , 20 days ago to world in Canadian b-boy Phil Wizard takes gold in Olympic breaking final

Figure skating is also an olympic competition, is it not?

tb_ , 21 days ago to news in Operating theatres, bowling alleys and home cinemas: Not happy with safe rooms, the super-rich are building luxury fortresses

But to do that they’d have to be not-inept though

tb_ , 21 days ago to android in Nova Launcher faces uncertain future after the company Branch slashes its development team

I really like Niagara, though it is quite a bit different from Nova.

Lawnchair V2 is also a thing outside of the Playstore.

tb_ , 22 days ago to gaming in Borderlands is failing already.

I think the Halo show could’ve been much more interesting too if they focused on someone not the main character of the games.

But no, gotta keep the most recognizable character

tb_ , 23 days ago to news in Climate change deniers make up nearly a quarter of US Congress

Which surely couldn’t have anything to do with underfunded schools, book bannings, and sensationalised news.

tb_ , 28 days ago to news in How Harris Can Outfox Trump (and Vance) on Taxes

Especially considering buybacks used to be illegal.

No points for guessing which president legalised the practice.

tb_ , 28 days ago to games in New Darksiders game teased by THQ Nordic

Nordic Games bought what remained of THQ back in the day when the latter went bankrupt. (THQ used to be comparable to the likes of EA and Ubisoft before they made some poor decisions)

The holdings company behind THQ Nordic rebranded into Embracer some years ago.

tb_ , 1 month ago to technology in Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google

You shouldn’t be getting any new results if you do that, older posts will/may remain indexed.

tb_ , 1 month ago to technology in Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google

This is where you get into the whole webscraping debate you also have with LLM “datasets”.

If you, as a website host, are detecting a ton of requests coming from a singular IP you can block said address. There are ways around that by making the requests from different IP addresses, but there are other ways to detect that too!

I’m not sure if Reddit would try to sue Microsoft or DDG if they started serving results anyway through such methods. I don’t believe it is explicitly disallowed.
But if you were hoping to deal in any way with Reddit in the future I doubt a move like this would get you in their good graces.

All that is to say; I won’t visit Reddit at all anymore now that their results won’t even show up when I search for something. This is a terrible move and will likely fracture the internet even more as other websites may look to replicate this additional source of revenue.

tb_ , 1 month ago to technology in Reddit changes have blocked all search engines except Google amid AI 'misuse' [U]

404 notes that Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and Qwant are all affected, with results either not showing anything recent, or not showing the full site result. Kagi, a paid search engine, is apparently still showing data, but only because it buys some of its search index from Google, which continues to have access to Reddit data through the aforementioned deal.

tb_ , 1 month ago to android in The Google Play Store is becoming more personalized with local recommendations

A Google Ad for Google Ads