Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

Google is too big to fail, and yet they seem to be failing at basic things they used to do well (like search) while removing useful features (like cache) and adding a bunch of crap nobody needs or wants.

Want to know if a given domain name shows up anywhere in search? Well screw you, we're not going to tell you that anymore, but here's 1,400 completely useless and irrelevant results that could possibly have some info (but don't). When the search engine could have done what it's done for years, and admit that it doesn't know WTF you're talking about and say "no results found." Now it just makes shit up if it doesn't know the answer.

Hey cool! My search result shows the term I was looking for is present on 7 website. Shoot! None of them are online anymore. How about showing us your cached version of the site, you know the one that was used to create this search result? Oh wait, no, you can't see that anymore. Why? Here's Danny Sullivan's dismissive and mystifying explanation: "“It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.”

Want software? Great, Google will serve a malicious ad on top that looks a lot like an organic search result but which is paid for by scammers and installs malware.

@RIDDLES

Girl (s)from DC, PA, MD, VA having a dose of malignant narcissism—

"I’m not on Mastodon because there’s nobody there, there’s not enough users to make it succeed, my whole community is on Twitter and don’t want to migrate and… hey… I now have a Bluesky account! Please follow me on Bluesky, it’s very cool, it belongs to a billionaire but is decentralised. Or at least, the billionaire promises us it will be, which is cool."

– Basically every silicon valley pundit

I thought I saw a Cybertruck in the wild but then I realized it was only a dumpster.

"And now, Republicans are saying that if they retake the White House they will change the Medicare rules so that people newly turning 65 will enroll by default into Medicare Advantage rather than real, traditional Medicare, further enhancing the profits of these massive, billion-dollar insurance giants while rapidly killing off real, traditional Medicare."

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/medicare-advantage-2667187728/

🌎La vulnerabilidad de Abya Yala al cambio climático se ve exacerbada por la desigualdad, y la pobreza, según el IPCC. Los mortales incendios forestales del año pasado en Biobío y Ñuble presagian la creciente y letalidad de estos desastres.

Central and South America vulnerability to climate change is exacerbated by inequality, and poverty, says IPCC. Last year's deadly wildfires in Biobío and Ñuble foreshadow the growing frequency and lethality of such disasters. 🌲🔥 #ClimateCrisis #elnino (4/6)

Ask not why Tucker is interviewing Putin but why Putin is giving an interview to Tucker

Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 https://lifehacker.com/tech/the-best-rss-reader-apps-in-2024

1,000 times yes! As an information junky, I can't *imagine* life w/o RSS. I loves my Inoreader!

Niki Haley wants to raise the SS retirement age to 70.

Life expectancy for African American men in the US is 62.

For men in general? 73.

Enjoy your negative 8 and 3 years everyone.