Goodbye Legless
Sorry to share this news - from the email: "Hi B3ta. Bit of sad news, Joe Thompson aka Legless passed away last week. Thought you might want to post something, better coming from you instead of some random lurker. The funeral will be webcast. Whack it in /links for a suitably tasteless send off :)" The team at B3ta send their respects to Mrs Legless and their daughter.
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rob, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 10:09,
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Devastated.
Post B3ta he contacted me via Twitter (Fesshole) when he found out I was ill. We kept in contact right up until this March when we were both on the mend. His last message to me was more concerned about me than himself. He was a great on B3ta, and on Facebook but most of all as a family man, as a mate and as a bloke in general. He will be greatly missed.
Cheers Joe.
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Mon 28 Oct 2024, 12:47,
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Oh no.
Sifting through the week's answers was a lovely job mostly, but it was always a joy when you saw a reply from Legless as you knew it would be awesome. Sure, it'd take a while to edit it down to size for the newsletter, but that was the fun part.
I will miss his humour and life experience and his inevitable sign-off.
He will forever remain,
Legless
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chthonic, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 13:07,
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RIP Joe/Legless
always loved his QOTW replies. Much love to Mrs Legless and their daughter.
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Dusting off the cobwebs to say how sorry I was to hear about this
RIP Legless the Legend
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rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 14:02,
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Sad news
A chance meeting in a pub, probably almost 20 years ago now, led to many amiable weekends in his company until he emigrated to Oz.
RIP Joe. Another good one gone.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 28 Oct 2024, 15:24,
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Awww, bugger.
Sad to hear this, I never had the pleasure of meeting him, but his posts were always a joy to read.
My condolences to his family.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 16:27,
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sorry to hear that
maybe they'll give him legs in heaven
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MiseryCunt we of all lost both have them, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 16:29,
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RIP old chap
A man of a thousand fabulous tales. And a fun person to work with on projects. And always oddly powerful. Rest easy, much respect.
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cr3, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 17:08,
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Absolutely
I was part of Clinman for a while. That bloke was absolutely entertainining to work with for sure.
Just don't start drinking with him...
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He aint heavy
I'm Joe's brother, I was devasted to learn that he'd collapsed at home last Wednesday, and couldn't be resuscitated. Both of us have had our struggles with cancer, we used to text and Whatsapp just about every day. We used to sign off our long meandering Whatsapp messages with the tag line 'Not Dead Yet', And now, it's all change.
RIP Joe, you were more than a brother, you were my friend..
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RIP, friend.
I will always regret that we never met. I wanted very much to buy him pints and swap stories that we dared not post.
Rest easy, Joe. You earned it.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 28 Oct 2024, 21:34,
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'dofs hat
cheerio fella - see you on the other side.
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TBL I posted this on, Tue 29 Oct 2024, 6:01,
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sad news
i remember a few of his qotws, reckon he had a bit of fun in his salad days. Hope his family are bearing up ok, but if they're not that's part of it. Death sucks. Hope his daughter goes on to good things, but keeps that irreverent spark of her dad that we got to see
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 29 Oct 2024, 9:33,
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A big loss from the good old days of the internet
That's sad news, his stories were the stuff of legend.
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Ah, sadness. :-(
An amusing bloke, no doubt. Condolences to his family. Thanks for the laughs, Legless.
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Smiley_Neil filling the interweb with crap, Thu 31 Oct 2024, 9:36,
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:-(
It really sucks we are losing folk that are way, way too young for it. Loved his stories and more than once got bollocked at work for laughing out loud at his posts.
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dan j what the buggery bollocks is this?, Thu 31 Oct 2024, 15:36,
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Simply……. Cheers
This prompted me to log back in after nearly a decade away.
Very sad news.
QOTW was always a cracker when he was letting things rip on all cylinders.
Back in 2010 I asked him for career advice. Helped me immensely.
Cheers
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I have to admit, I didn’t always enjoy his stories - but he was definitely a huge part of my internet experience back in the day. Reading back through the QOTW archive recently and lots of tall tales from the man himself. Terrible way to go, too. RIP, Joe.
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CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Fri 1 Nov 2024, 23:26,
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Forever Legless
Such wit, such verve, such a loss
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doctordoctor I feel like a pair of curtains, Sat 2 Nov 2024, 1:38,
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this made me sad
I've reactivated my old account just to come on here and say I always enjoyed Legless' posts and our occasional chats, sad he's gone.
Cheers Joe.
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Cheers Legless
RIP
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 3 Nov 2024, 10:12,
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Shit.
Just, shit. Condolences to Mrs Legless and daughter.
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Sweeplovesfisting Take all your footballs home and burst them., Sun 3 Nov 2024, 16:00,
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Ah bugger
But I guess from the little fragment we got to see here, he lived a life.
Cheers
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jagwap, Thu 7 Nov 2024, 19:46,
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What horrible news.
I'm sorry to hear this. I still remember Legless, a legend on b3ta.
Sincere condolences to his family.
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Call him Allison and he's going to have to be tough and eccentric
Even worse than Sue
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Wiki has this very English battle report,
"Digby was later injured by shrapnel, which also cut open the rear of his trousers, but continued to fight until A Company had run out of ammunition."
Ripped trews, how embarrassing.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 29 Oct 2024, 0:14,
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"Where is my book...?"
Black Francis reads a spooky bedtime story...
(Probably geoblocked if you're not in the UK...)
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sun 27 Oct 2024, 2:50,
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It's a sign of the apocalypse! It's fucking Binky!
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sat 26 Oct 2024, 20:24,
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Solving a lighting problem by inventing a whole electric board printing technique is frankly jaw-dropping. Kind of explains the enormous gap between episodes.
Nice cameo from SuperfastMatt in there too.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sat 26 Oct 2024, 22:37,
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they could just send the layout to 100 companies
and have the board made cheap as chips. Astonishingly dim of them. And no, this was not compelling content. Primitive Technology if all he did was carry water and cut down trees with unsuitable tools
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sun 27 Oct 2024, 0:45,
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Well if all you know is hammers and angle grinders I guess you end up going down some odd paths to solve it. You don't know what you don't know.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 27 Oct 2024, 7:19,
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I'm a fan of the channel and I have to agree, it was a pointless exercise
They seem to know about breadboards and routing software, so it is a small step to having the design laid out by software as well. Using solder as the tracks is daft too, the tracks peel off too easily and would melt if a component failed thermally. And not to be too much of a dick about it, but the first trip out they do the vibration will make most of it fall apart.
They obviously knew enough to assemble a solder printing rig, which seems to me a lot harder than designing a circuit board. I was just left thinking "why?" rather than thinking it was cool. Wasting effort reinventing the wheel rather than doing something else useful.
I guess it was an amusing excursion for them, but to me it seemed like an opportunity to ask for some help from a electronics designer.
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Stopped caring.
Put it together and drive it.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 27 Oct 2024, 1:33,
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I have serious concerns about this plan
In terms of prototyping a PCB layout and bench-testing it, it makes some sense. It can’t be the easiest method to achieve that but that’s the Binky way.
Actually putting this into the car, and expecting it to survive in a vibrating and moving environment, is asking for one or more of those tracks to pop off the backboard and short-circuit something expensive.
I hope they’re making plenty of spares.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sun 27 Oct 2024, 9:57,
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Wet Leg's Ur Mum
Reminded by Your Mum link below
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sat 26 Oct 2024, 8:27,
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maybe it's the beer talking, but I liked it
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 26 Oct 2024, 11:52,
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Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works II "Listening Event" // Tate Modern, 25 October 2024
People complain if you don't write a description.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 25 Oct 2024, 20:35,
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bleep.com/aphex-twin-SAWii-ROTM#module-87986
For me, this record is inextricably linked with playing Frontier: Elite II on my Atari ST...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 19:58,
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I liked that
So I have clicked
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Fri 25 Oct 2024, 16:30,
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That was way better than the preview promised
Glad I clicked after all. Ta. ozof.
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unclepills, Mon 28 Oct 2024, 7:40,
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Maybe next time you’ll watch where you’re treading you whiny little shit.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 25 Oct 2024, 14:32,
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Probably best if it was euthanized
- and get some Dreamies for the cat.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Fri 25 Oct 2024, 14:51,
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Just say it was a late abortion.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 25 Oct 2024, 19:30,
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Toxic Avenger
Seems like someone has posted the full movie to good old youtube. So, if you, like me, hadn't seen it, now might be the time.
The portrayal of blindness in this movie should have received an oscar.
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Octo I ruin everything., Thu 24 Oct 2024, 14:27,
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I do think that the baddie looks like Kier Starmer
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 24 Oct 2024, 14:02,
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A triple-bill of Mike Jittlov short films
All his work is amazing. Shame there's not more of it.
And what a website.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 23 Oct 2024, 11:02,
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I've clicked 'I like this'
But in actuality I fucking loved it. Thanks!
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The Wizard of Speed and Time is a stone cold classic
bloody love it
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I always thought it was technically brilliant
but I don't actually enjoy watching it that much for some reason. I have no idea why.
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Maybe AI isn’t what we should be worried about
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 22:02,
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Ukrainians will weaponise this in 2025.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 22:15,
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I reckon if you could interface a drone with an angry wasp brain
those things are evil terminators
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 23 Oct 2024, 2:27,
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Hornets, carrying tiny grenades.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 23 Oct 2024, 21:40,
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Shit! That's almost half past eight!
I'd better get the dinner on.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Wed 23 Oct 2024, 16:45,
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"devised a 3D simulation"
so yeah. Not #skynet yet
But just in case, I bow down to our new lords....
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TBL I posted this on, Wed 23 Oct 2024, 0:29,
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it's still early days, sure
and basic stimuli response, but it is brain cells reacting and responding even if they're making it look more sophisticated with their virtual butterfly
unlike processors, every cell has code that will allow it to self-organise in very complex ways, and rather than binary gates, each neuron has 7000 synaptic connections. That's a lot of computing power for very little energy, so being able to interact with lab grown neurons via a programmable interface seems a bit of a milestone
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 23 Oct 2024, 2:22,
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so maybe a bit like that 2013 French film LUCY
That strangely enough I watched again last night.
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TBL I posted this on, Wed 23 Oct 2024, 13:44,
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You voluntarily watch that twice?
Strange indeed.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 25 Oct 2024, 20:55,
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Roll on Murderbots.
Though I still say slaughterbot sounds better.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 25 Oct 2024, 20:56,
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More bad design
From my current favourite smut purveyor.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 17:58,
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Her Majesty the Queen memorial homepages
I made this!
I finally built a website I've been meaning to build for a couple of years. When her maj passed away you may recall that brands across the internet collectively went bananas with respectful black homepages.
I've lovingly displayed 70 of my favourites examples (one for every year of her reign) on a website. I hope you enjoy!
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hiya, saw this on the new twitter earlier
can I ask how you found b3ta? and why you joined? This place has been dead on its arse for some time now so I'm curious about where new members come from
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The newsletter gets you decent traffic
and popular things on /links get shared by b3ta's socials.
It makes sense for people to post fun projects here, as it means you don't have to get into the social media churn to give your project a chance.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 13:16,
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absolutely, I love b3ta and the extended community it has created
but all those things come from knowing it exists
I thought this was a brand new user, so was curious where they came from to get here
as it turns out, they're a new account for an old user
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I love b3ta
I still attribute b3ta to getting me my first job. My portfolio ended up on the newsletter and it kicked off a tonne of engagement, ultimately getting my first job as a graduate. For that reason I guess I still think about b3ta whenever I am releasing something new into the digital world.
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Why the internet sucks now
NSFW
Not sure if any of you are aware of this guy but he does videos analysing the economy, politics, etc. Here he's looking at how the internet used to be better and I have to agree.
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Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Mon 21 Oct 2024, 23:40,
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I agree with every point he made there, and then some. Google don't just own search, they own the actual browser you use to search on. Google has changed how extensions work within Chrome which has made it much harder for ad blockers to work properly. These changes get folded into Chromium, so that means Edge, Opera and Brave get enshittified as well.
He also touched on how AI is ruining image searching. Well, it's doing the same for basic search as well. Why pay a sweatshop in Asia to churn out your spam pages when you can train a computer to do it instead? The problem is this absolute shite is pumped out onto the internet, which is being used to train the next generations of AI. Garbage in, Garbage out in an exponential feedback loop, all the while poisoning the well of the greatest information source the world has ever known.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 8:40,
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That sounds like an accurate summary
A couple of days ago I searched for ways of removing a scratch on toughened glass, and the first AI suggestion was "Apply soapy water, leave for 15 minutes and dry with a cloth".
As for the state of UIs, Gmail has one of the worst UIs I've ever used - functionality scattered all over the screen, hidden subject lines, hard to tell what you're actually replying to etc.
Even though I've been hooked on tech for decades, I sometimes find myself thinking I'm glad I won't have to deal with the impending mess that's going to affect so many jobs in one way or another.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 10:10,
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Unfortunately, it looks like he's part of the problem
as this video is very similar to one posted 9 days ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGVk2KVokQ
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$$ ✅, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 10:32,
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I guess this one is an expansion of that
Incorporating Google search, Chrome, Amazon, etc.
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Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 11:16,
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Sad but true. The youtube app is just the same now.
As you scroll down one in four or five items on the list is a “sponsored video”, i.e. an advert. That’s on top of the actual adverts there are described as such. They range from get rich quick scams to pseudo-religious “manifesting success” bollocks to mail order Ukrainian brides. That’s to say nothing of the recent ads I’ve seen espousing hydrogen peroxide boner pills (yes, really), using language that would raise eyebrows at OFCOM, much less the ASA.
You can report them all you want; Google long ago dropped “Do No Evil” in favour of “Do Fuck All”. I might as well write to my MP for all the good it will do. In fact I think I will, because as winter sets in I just know there will be more of those ads for Chinese death trap plug-in heaters and instructions on how you can heat a room with a tea light and two plant pots (I’m serious, those exist) and sooner or later this shite will end up with someone burning their fucking house down.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 14:42,
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Interesting discussion, I've not watched the video
because he proudly proclaims his channel is "all about managing money, financial products and making money online."
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 15:58,
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I don't understand why that has stopped you from watching
The guy knows his stuff. He's not trying to sell you anything, merely highlight malpractice of financial and government institutions.
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Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 16:27,
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“Making money online” might have put me off if I’d seen it first.
People who promise that are often scam artists and people who actually do it are often influencers; both groups are parasites that the world would be well rid of.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 16:33,
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^ This.
The brothers Tate, Paul and Crypto spring to mind.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 16:43,
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He is certainly trying to sell you something.
All of these angry men shouting in cars or CG spaces are trying to sell you something.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 16:47,
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Indeed - one need only read the description to find...
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 17:18,
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The late Charlie Munger (an actual billionaire) had a lot to say on the subject.
Here’s a short version: youtu.be/QWhGHxrK9w8
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jonbob loves you, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 17:23,
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Does he spend the short version telling you how much better the long version is?
(For which you have to pay)
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