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Cake day: March 14th, 2025

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  • Eyeing the replies, does not one other person here get results constantly flooded with content farms? They’ve gotten significantly worse

    But then, I don’t use Google so maybe this is still better than Google Search?

    It started maybe three years ago, around the same time as LLMs became usable for this, but I’m pretty sure >50% are human-written still. Probably the LLM generates the structure (saves any time they’d have to spend coming up with plausible-sounding texts) and someone from a low-income country is contracted to make it look more legit

    Of course, queries for topics that have a Wikipedia page get Wikipedia first, recipes get tons of big-name recipe sites, products get stores. But when there’s no obvious market around a topic, 3~4 out of 5 results are content farms pretending to have useful information to show unwary visitors ads

    (As an alternative, I still have to try Kagi properly. It seemed on par with DDG when I did a few searches last year, but then their payment processor refused me trying to load my account, support was unhelpful, and I’ve gotten sidetracked since)




  • The fictional version of it is apparently named after soy and lent (the religious fasting thing, I guess), TIL. But the real-world version literally has meal replacement in the Wikipedia page title. Was looking for a reference from the creator stating their goal but Wikipedia said unreferenced (at the time that I wrote the Dutch translation in 2014) that it’s supposed to be nutritionally complete. The English page was shortened considerably since then, dunno why but this part is gone. That’s how it started and was marketed though, so that’s what makes it that by definition in my mind. If they’ve strayed from their raison d’être, idk what they are anymore



  • Ha, grappig om te lezen dat ik niet de enige ben die nog Engels spreekt tegen diens vriendin terwijl ik inmiddels haar taal spreek!

    Vind jij het ook lastig om te switchen met jouw vriendin, zelfs maar als oefening? Wanneer ik met haar mijn Duits wil oefenen (zij is Duits, ik Nederlands) is het een beetje alsof ik probeer een computermuis ondersteboven te gebruiken: veel te makkelijk om terug te switchen naar iets dat ik wel volledig beheers en waarin ik efficiënt gezegd krijg wat ik wil overbrengen — precies de reden waarom ik het zou moeten oefenen dus >.<