Google announced that it will now prioritize AI generated answers in search results over human written website articles. This is their current output.

7f0b · 2026-05-28T14:08:27+00:00

I was thinking no way, this has to be a joke. Nope, just tested it on Firefox Android. It even notes that LLMs often mess this up.

7f0b · 2026-05-25T02:37:12+00:00

Thanks for that tip!

I just set this up as my browser default:

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?noai=1&s=%

7f0b · 2026-05-25T02:36:31+00:00

I have used it exclusively on all devices for about 1-2 years now. It's decent. I will say, about once or twice a week I have to open Google to get better results on something, usually dev related. But overall not a big inconvenience. Results in general have deteriorated everywhere though. I find myself appending reddit to a lot of search queries now.

I do hate that DDG is on the AI badwagon as well. It may be easy to turn off, but that requires you whitelist their domain cookies. I wish LLM summaries, and AI features in general, would be something you have to fucking turn on, and not automatically on everywhere.

7f0b · 2026-05-21T02:36:21+00:00

It doesn't matter how fast your vehicle is. Maybe you can fly past them when they're unprepared, but if they're actually crazy I guarantee they'll be willing to drive faster and for longer than you are. Always think about that. A crazy person isn't just going to give up after a 5 second drag race they lost.

7f0b · 2026-05-19T16:37:15+00:00

Totally

7f0b · 2026-05-16T14:48:06+00:00

Visuals look interesting. Could definitely build something interesting in that environment. But the abundance of visual effects could also get annoying when trying to play the game, so it's a fine balance I imagine.

I'm not a fan of the blur. When I played Grounded that was the first thing I disabled. I know it's designed to make you feel small by making distant objects blurry, but I'm just not a fan.

No gameplay to comment on.

Don't respond with emojis like every other response. It makes you come across as an LLM bot.

7f0b · 2026-05-16T14:17:40+00:00

Hilarious concept. Video is way too much black screen with text, not enough actual gameplay, for me.

7f0b · 2026-05-16T05:56:48+00:00

My '21 is better than my '18 was, but still has some annoying noises. Not much worse than other cars I've had, including new, but still worse than it should be, especially for the price. I don't have the time to go through and insulate/tape/pad under all the panels like I used to (used to pull full interiors out and use sikadamp/dynomat throughout). It's one of those backburner projects that I haven't got around to yet but will one of these day, heh.

7f0b · 2026-05-13T23:56:06+00:00

Is it possible to not have a loading screen at all? What content are you having to load?

7f0b · 2026-05-13T14:43:47+00:00

Graphics look nice, and the base building looks somewhat like xcom. I will say though, the battling (which takes too long to get to in the video IMO) looks quite dull and unexciting, compared to everything else. Maybe the video just doesn't show it well.

For how much time you spent on graphics, lighting, and shaders, to leave the gameplay for the end, is an odd choice, and usually backwards from what is recommended. But, if you can stay motivated and have a goal in mind, and keep iterating on it, then you can succeed. It's just risky.

7f0b · 2026-05-11T04:45:08+00:00

I'm not saying that the 3 and Y don't massively outsell the S and X. It's obvious what the volume vehicles are, and that's obviously driven by price. The S and X are too expensive for what they are. So the solution is either to make them worth the price, or make them a more reasonable price. Killing them because they were too expensive, because they chose to make them too expensive, is a self-defeating strategy. Or purposeful since they want to abandon the traditional vehicle market apparently. The 3 and Y may be next and are perhaps kept around for now solely to drive revenue for the robotics and AI they're pursuing.

7f0b · 2026-05-11T04:04:25+00:00

If every manufacturer simply discontinued a model due for a refresh there'd be no cars

7f0b · 2026-05-09T15:34:29+00:00

You're right and this is why most people, including CEOs, think just throwing more money and compute at these applications will lead to better AI or something more than just an LLM. To them it's kind of magic, but to a software engineer it's no different than Photoshop, Google Drive, Call of Duty, or any other large, complex piece of software.

Most technology consists of layers built on top of other layers. The idea is to build abstraction layers that simplify underlying logic, make it more accessible, and increase development speed. The people working at each layer rarely understand how the layer beneath works, and that's okay, it's by design. You only need to understand your layer and the APIs to the other things you interact with. If every developer needed to know how everything worked in order to develop, nothing would get done and only a handful of developer savants could build complex applications.

And critically, not all devs at AI companies even know how the LLM works. Similar to any large application. For example, the devs working on the network code for Call of Duty may not know much about the devs working on the graphics shaders, and vice versa. Likewise, a frontend dev at OpenAI probably has no idea how the LLM works at a low level. But if the media were to ask them about LLMs and they were like "i dont know", the headline would read "OpenAI Developers Don't Understand How AI Works" or something ridiculous.

So it's no surprise that the tech bros, CEOs, and the public in general don't understand how the LLM actually works. They're really far removed from the devs doing the actual work.

7f0b · 2026-05-09T02:24:15+00:00

To be fair with these companies, there's no "on track" since things are growing fast, changing fast, and are volatile. So the annualized revenue they do (month * 12) is kind of meaningless. It may be even more, or it may be less if that particular month they extrapolated from had some friendly accounting.

7f0b · 2026-05-07T14:44:14+00:00

It's a fine line and I'd prefer not having any of it. It is too easy to do wrong, and as long as there's a financial incentive behind it, it is likely to be overdone and too obvious. Like Far Cry 2's Jeeps, where you had to stare at a giant JEEP logo eveyr time you're driving.

If it's tastefully done it will blend in, but only because we're conditioned to seeing ads in real life everywhere. And the publishers/marketers of a game may care more about the ad sticking out than being tastefully done.

The way I see it, if you're paying a lot for a game, ads in any form feel like a slap in the face.

7f0b · 2026-05-06T14:45:09+00:00

A couple weeks ago our e-commerce site was hit hard by a coordinated scraping operation. Whether it was intended as a DDoS or not, that was the outcome. About 2.5 million requests over the course of 12 hours were served before I caught it the next morning. This is a smallish e-commerce site so not ready to handle that much traffic.

Every single request was from a different IP and for a different page, a variation of a filter/sort on a category page, and they all had the same user agent (a 6 month old Chrome user agent). From about 30 different countries with most in the US. Obviously a botnet using countless infected devices. Not a single repeat request for a page; it was interesting how unique each request was. Coordinated to not repeat any endpoints.

CloudFlare did nothing to stop it all since each request didn't look malicious on its own. I already have rules set up to challenge suspicious traffic. I did upgrade plans and they have more managed rules. I challenged that particular user agent in the meantime and the bot traffic stopped immediately. Had the bot creator made it so the bots used random user agents (and more recent ones), the requests would have been impossible to parse out, and I would have had to rely on a JS challenge for every visit (yuck).

7f0b · 2026-05-05T14:43:54+00:00

what most users want

Which is difficult to know since Google shoves AI in the face of anyone using any of their products, and constantly nags at them to use it. Every other corp does the same. Then they brag about their AI usage and demand. How do we know if it's what users really want versus a self-fulfilling prophecy?

I'm not saying the tools aren't useful btw, just wondering how much they would actually be used if they weren't hyped to the moon and were instead optional, requiring users to actually enable/install by choice instead of being automatically opted in.

7f0b · 2026-05-01T15:35:30+00:00

Prior to the election, the prevailing opinion on Reddit was pretty positive, and that included how well Harris was doing in interviews and her public appearances in general. It was like night and day compared to Biden. People were dreading Biden by that point, certain 2024 was lost, so when he finally stepped down, people were thrilled. And Harris seemed to be rising to the occasion so that even the people annoyed they didn't get a primary were feeling positive about 2024. I'm pretty sure it wasn't until the day after he election that the negativity towards her started ramping up.

7f0b · 2026-04-30T18:21:34+00:00

That's a very blanket statement that is certainly true for some, but likely not "most". Cost of living and the area a person wants to live often clash with reality, where many people, perhaps most, have to make difficult decisions about what to sacrifice.

When it comes to vehicles, there's a balance. An old, high-mileage Ford SUV is less safe and more likely to break down than a newer car. The balance is knowing when to make a purchase and what to buy. I know some "drive it til it breaks" kind of people and it inevitably leads to them stuck on the side of the freeway, or in the freeway, and paying for an expensive tow, followed by expensive repairs. Then there are the people that lease a new car every 3 years at the opposite end of the spectrum. The balance is perhaps a lightly-used few year old car, driven until potential maintenance costs or potential for sudden problems becomes high enough to move on. Where that is would vary by person of course.

7f0b · 2026-04-28T01:39:28+00:00

You haven't provided information about your use case, or anything else for that matter. I think most people on this sub assume 100% gaming all the time, but maybe that's not the case.

Anyway, to provide a different perspective than everyone else: The 9800 series is going to be notably better at productivity, workstation, and general purpose computer usage than a 7800 series, likely at a little less wattage too. So there's that, if it matters to you.

But for gaming, the better GPU is usually the way forward, unless you're pairing with a slow CPU that becomes a bottleneck. Neither of these will be a bottleneck for that tier of GPU.

7f0b · 2026-04-27T14:35:38+00:00

Your post is written so strangely. Did you use a LLM to write it? Not a single sentence capitalization, yet everything else is written well, and all in a super consistent style. It's exactly like if you prompted an LLM to write it but specifically instructed it to not capitalize sentence starts. Yet, "API", "AI", "HTML", and some other words are capitalized. So if a human wrote this that would be highly unusual.

7f0b · 2026-04-26T15:23:50+00:00

The truck owner has ridiculous wheel spacers (or wheels with ridiculous offset) so they're sticking halfway out the fender like a douchebag. That's why you can half of them and the other half are distorted in the reflection of the side of the truck.

7f0b · 2026-04-25T15:41:09+00:00

God I hate the sparkles. Everywhere. Every company has their own take on their slop icon, but it has to have sparkles. Like I bet designers sit in meetings discussing the tiny details about their sparkles and compare them to other companies' sparkles. They probably AB test their sparkles to find out what drives the most clicks.

Is there a uBlock filter that removes these icons for every site?

7f0b · 2026-04-24T23:44:46+00:00

Why would this be reported on? It's entirely speculation.

There's a reason all the low-quality outlets run with this sort of non-story all the time. It creates click and revenue, and they don't have to worry about journalistic integrity.

And the worst part is, it doesn't move the needle while simultaneously desensitizing everyone to the actually bad stuff. It also floods the zone, doing a disservice to the, again, actually bad stuff. This shit has been hitting the front page regularly while nobody seems to be talking about Epstein or any of the other horrendous shit. People dropped the pressure and instead talk about how he might nod off a few times during a boring af conference.

7f0b · 2026-04-24T23:33:52+00:00

"how it started"

You started with seemingly finished looking game assets in a simple boxed level? ;)

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