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  • I remember how people used to joke about the second page of Google results being a desolate wasteland where no one ever looks, now I just instinctively scroll down a bit because I know the first page of results is going to be trash.

  • It's the fact that it could just be a checkbox in search settings, but they make it as hidden as humanly possible, not only is it in the registry, but it's not an existing flag you can change, it's a flag you have to know the exact name of to add. It only takes a minute if you're the type of person to be here commenting on a Linux meme on Lemmy, but to the average user, the option almost doesn't exist.

  • Because it's just a text prediction engine, the only training data it has about taking a goat across the river is a well-known puzzle involving a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage, so it just regurgitates the solution to that.

  • That rule doesn't actually exist in English. It's a Latin rule that some British asshole in the 1800s wanted to impose on English because he believed that Latin was a perfect language and anything that works differently from Latin is a flaw to be corrected.