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Topic: Hacker News posters are weirdo and cringe
+Anonymous A — 4 months ago #68,553
Why did we let tech bros run society
(Edited 20 seconds later.)
+Anonymous B — 4 months ago, 4 minutes later[T] [B] #679,419
They call it Orange Reddit for a reason.
+FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 4 months ago, 22 hours later, 22 hours after the original post[T] [B] #679,432
Who is 'we'? Google is the only American tech megacorp that I've used in the long term. And I've started cutting them out too.
(Edited 28 seconds later.)
++Syntax !/bdKkAN1Os — 4 months ago, 12 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #679,442
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
> Who is 'we'? Google is the only American tech megacorp that I've used in the long term. And I've started cutting them out too.
Google I use Sooooo much - Recipe's to tips on my horses and garden and would be willing to pay IF I had too.
+Anonymous E — 4 months ago, 18 hours later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #679,450
I think the actual hacking world is shielded well enough from the hoodie+MatrixScreensaver fluff to keep both camps happy (normies vs actual computer dorks).
@679,432 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
I've done the Pixel phone, mostly because they were the 'underdog' in the phone sphere. I might go back at some point if I get comfortable with the idea of loading GrapheneOS or something.
@previous (+Syntax !/bdKkAN1Os)
Fair. Doesn't have to be 100% worthless, I've found usable conversation in the Yahoo comments sections of all places.
·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 4 months ago, 2 hours later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #679,451
@679,442 (+Syntax !/bdKkAN1Os)
I switched to Ecosia for regular searches. I just wish they didn't use Micro$oft/BingAPIs for ads. I only use google for reverse image searches and the occasional translation.
@previous (E)
> mostly because they were the 'underdog' in the phone sphere
What's the timeline on that? It was true when Android first came out, but I don't think they had any hardware in the pipeline at that point. I thought they had already achieved market dominance quite handily by the time Pixel was announced.
+Anonymous F — 4 months ago, 17 hours later, 3 days after the original post[T] [B] #679,454
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
> What's the timeline on that?
That's fair, Google and Alphabet (corporate) were plenty big by then. At least I didn't go with the Amazon Fire phone, that was DOA if I remember correctly :D.
+Anonymous G — 4 months ago, 2 days later, 5 days after the original post[T] [B] #679,478
more than half of the posts on HN are bots, so I would take them less seriously than any anonymous poster
+Anonymous H — 3 months ago, 1 week later, 2 weeks after the original post[T] [B] #679,649
they decided to shut it down to hide the return of George Floyd in the form of George Droyd. and it worked pretty well as you can see.
+Anonymous I — 3 months ago, 5 days later, 3 weeks after the original post[T] [B] #679,727
@679,451 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
Does ecosia have those AI summaries clogging up the results?
·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 3 months ago, 1 hour later, 3 weeks after the original post[T] [B] #679,729
@previous (I)
They have a simple toggle to turn them off.
·Anonymous I — 3 months ago, 2 hours later, 3 weeks after the original post[T] [B] #679,730
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
Neato. Not perfect, since i assume their still generating it under the sheet, but oh well.
(Edited 1 minute later.)
·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 3 months ago, 1 day later, 3 weeks after the original post[T] [B] #679,749
@previous (I)
I'm not sure, one of their stated goals is to be a carbon responsible search engine, and not generating AI results when users have them disabled would certainly be a key way to achieve that.