• David Gerard@awful.systems
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    8 months ago

    note: tech sociopath apologists in this thread will be removed and banned for everyone’s best interests

    edit: or just acting like a pointless dipshit. jfc you people

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      8 months ago

      Can I ask a sincere question? whats a tech sociopath apologist, could you demonstrate an example?

      Again, im sincerely genuinely asking

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        8 months ago

        Someone who takes it on themselves to act as apologist for the words/actions of tech sociopaths

        Often seen as “weird nerds coming to defense of $x” (such as musk, or in this case the kagi dudebro)

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          8 months ago

          (And then I glanced at your post history and noticed a trend of JAQing off so I now doubt whether you’re sincere in asking)

            • Crazazy [hey hi! :D]@feddit.nl
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              8 months ago

              Short for Just Asking Questions. Where people ask loaded questions that act as a veneer to their actual statements. If you want to accuse them of the fact they are talking shit, they’ll say they’re “just skeptical” and “asking questions”

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    8 months ago

    I literally learnt about Kagi like a week ago from a Cory Doctorow’s post. I was like oh, cool, someone there to fight google.

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      8 months ago

      Ah man, same. Thought I’d give it a go after reading about if from Cory…

      Honestly, for what I search for, DDG is sufficient, and it’s not gonna hassle me about subscriptions.

      What I’d really like to find is something like a pihole for search, where you have your blocklist, cache of things you’ve searched already (your own mini search engine?), and then a fallback engine (DDG, bing, Google, whatever) for things it doesn’t already know.

      I dunno. Search and AI botshit is everywhere, and it’s gonna keep getting worse. Self-hosting tools seems to be the only way to take control back.

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      8 months ago

      I’m in a forum where some person claims that the sealion is actually the reasonable one.

      It’s proof to me that this throwaway comic is such a good summary for certain online behavior that there’s an entire subculture built around trying to subvert it.

      (also Wondermark is great in general)