Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org

#peertube #peertubeindex #PeertubeDiscover #instancehunting #instances #videos #TEDEd #conferences #talks #cartoons #documentaries ⬆️

@mkwadee powerful birds pursue a cynical bride sounds like an amazing comedy thriller

@ShowerThoughts This is more relevant now than the poster in 2016 could have expected!

Saka-Keys #addon for #Firefox (to enable #Vim shortcuts in fx) was being inconsistent and buggy, so I've replaced that with Vimium-FF now. Also tried Vim Vixen which is almost as good, but missing a few features (incremental search and shortcut to Open Link in Private Window).

@vaughan Definitely. As I said it's my main search engine and I don't see that changing. I'm just trying to document places where I find weak results so I can send that feedback to them and hopefully help them fix those places.

@caranmegil
Some Peertube instances useful for English speakers:

https://peertube.nielsemmer.com/videos/local?a-state=42
Documentaries, scitech talks, a few explanatory videos

https://tilvids.com/
Varied. 'Fun facts' videos, educational, cooking, mythology, music, ...

https://peerkids.com/videos/trending?a-state=42
Peertube for kids - cartoons, education stuff from TEDEd, PBS, etc. that look fun and well-made

https://peertube.opencloud.lu/videos/overview
Privacy, how-to videos, conference talks

https://share.tube/videos/most-liked?a-state=42
Tech reviews and opinions, FOSS tools, gaming, etc.

https://v.pfaff.dev/videos/most-liked?a-state=42
Tech tool reviews, privacy

https://conf.tube/
Conference talks

@caranmegil This toot sent me into a dive into Peertube instances that I've only now gotten out of. There are a few instances that I found that look useful and usable to English speakers - although none that comes close to filling the place of its competitor YouTube, as yet.

@vaughan That's missing the point of the comment. My first instinct after the bad results was the add quotes around the query, and that also works swimmingly. But the point here is what this reveals about DDG: their search backend seems to ignore (unquoted) repetition entirely, and treats this query the same as just 'make money' - which makes sense for typos, and Google also probably has some form of that, but Google is smart enough also parallelly search without the repetitions removed just in case (as here) it's useful repetition.
I'm hoping for DDG to become as good of a Do What I Mean (DWIM) search engine as Google, so I can recommend it to my dad and my dentist and my nontech friends, and things like this are the places where DDG might trip them up (and they're not likely to engineer the query carefully to get the results, however simple that might seem to us).

#duckduckgo #search #results
Today's DuckDuckGo search that performed worse than expected: 'make money money make money money money' (I remembered hearing a song that goes like this, and was looking for that - which Google figured out immediately for the same search).
DDG is often very good is my main search engine, but when you do come across a failure point it's surprising how bad the results are. Here DDG even suggested this completion in its autocomplete, so I assumed it knew what I wanted, but then results came back full of "get rich quick" schemes and no mention of the song at all.

@cosullivan I've been wondering though, did journalism really include more fact-checking "back in the day", or did we just assume so because we didn't have better sources via the Internet to counter them at the time? The news I read back then might have been as crappy or crappier, and I would have had no idea if all major sources were towing a common line and ignoring contradicting sources. Maybe we just have additional sources to verify now.

@cosullivan Indian news media are setting new standards for spinelessness as we speak