Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@mavica_again That's a very good and appropriately exceptional use case.

Like, how do you even manage to do that! The search and sorting algorithms you'd have to write are either the polar opposite of simple and speedy, incorporate a RNG, or both, all three of which would earn an F in any CompSci class.

Call me old fashioned, but I firmly believe that two searches of the same website for:

* the exact same search terms
* in the exact same order and
* with the exact same formatting

in the same session of the same browser tab, separated only by a few seconds of time, should not produce:

* different sets of results or
* sets of results sorted in different, apparently random orders.

@earthshine True, but I sleep better at night when the problems I fix are hardware fault replacements and software fault corrections, not "my own computer encouraged some random scammer I can't touch take me to the cleaners."

I thought the Windows "here, let me do something for you that you explicitly didn't want me to do, and oh BTW xbox controllers are on sale" thing was an exaggeration, but no!

The Windows 10 PC I keep exclusively for customer support just actually and literally advertised Xbox controllers on sale to me, unprompted, on startup, from the built-in unlisted app "Suggested."

@itsOasus I feel like someone missed the chance at a banger headline: "Man Who Bought Every Tweet for $44 Billion Set to Lose Almost $44 Billion"

One of these days, I'm going to search for a song by artist and title, and I'm going to find two radically different relevant results: each whose title is the other's artist name and whose artist is the other's title.