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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.

insider.windows.com/en-us/arti

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.

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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.

Raspberry Pi drama 

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

: "HEY GUYS, MEET THE COP WE HIRED! HE SPENT HIS CAREER MAKING COMPUTERIZED SPY GEAR FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STATE! ISN'T THAT SWELL?" raspberrypi.com/news/meet-rasp

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

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

531 (online) (3/6)
Palmdle 533 (online) (3/6)
Palmdle 534 (online (5/6)
I missed Saturday (game 532), and that ended my streak. :<

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

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.

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