Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Dear search engines:

If you run out of relevant results to show me, then just tell me I've reached the end so I can either choose better search terms or make a decision with what there is.

Stop trying to stretch your list with an endless stream of absurdly irrelevant results. All it does is waste my time, waste your resources, & make me conclude *you're* irrelevant.

Pictured: a search on Google Shopping for a brand & model of cash register.

Today's Google Chrome monopoly makes the Microsoft Internet Explorer monopoly of not all that long ago look like peanuts.

Anyway, memorize Get Firefox dotcom.

I don't know how I should feel about Google Maps having an incredible historical landmark marker at ICBM coordinates 36.372731, 139.058436: the site of a little-known (at the time) used PC & parts store that shuttered way back in '02.

Search term: emacs

Google: Welcome to the front lines of the Editor War, recruit!

DuckDuckGo: Here's a bunch of usefully relevant results, including in non-editor contexts. May you find the pages you meant to find.

Image source: https://www.deviantart.com/laurag53/art/Snow-White-Mac-Apple-119324715

https://insider.windows.com/en-us/articles/optimize-windows-10-pc-reset-using-the-cloud

Actual hardware support in Windows is a joke, and it's only often-crap OEM drivers working most of the time that keeps you from realizing this.

LB: I don't trust a cell phone's airplane mode to be enough to keep itself quiet when a gov's highest level alerts come in. I do, however, trust this mode to be enough:

Mere days after the winter solstice, it's unseasonably warm outside. However, it didn't feel quite *this* warm.

Consumers: "Cops are using computers to spy on us more and more, and that's really worrying."

#RaspberryPi: "HEY GUYS, MEET THE COP WE HIRED! HE SPENT HIS CAREER MAKING COMPUTERIZED SPY GEAR FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STATE! ISN'T THAT SWELL?" https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/meet-raspberry-pis-maker-in-residence-toby-roberts/

Consumers: "Um, no, and here's why that's a problem."

RaspberryPi: "Stop being mean to us! Blocked!"

#Palmdle 531 (online) (3/6)
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Palmdle 534 (online (5/6)
I missed Saturday (game 532), and that ended my streak. :<

#Palmdle 530 (Online) (5/6)

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#Palmdle 525 (Online)
The number of words with the same middle 3 letters is higher than I thought.

#Palmdle 524 (Online)

#FollowFriday A cute kitten photograph every hour from a bot that *ethically* sources and shares photos: @hourlykitten

Welcome to the future, where you don't meaningfully own anything you buy anymore.

Your car's accelerator is just the latest thing locked behind a paywall.

"RSS is dead!"
No.
Google Reader is dead.
RSS is alive and well.
Podcasts are literally RSS.
RSS is for every kind of content.
RSS readers exist for every OS.
RSS never died.
Only the walled gardens told you it died.
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