Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

The state of search in 2024:

Google: "We threw away decades of search knowledge and Internet indexing and just made an answer up "

Bing: "Here's 100 tangentially related pages from 2010 that I only included because your query appears in a tag cloud in the website's footer"

DuckDuckGo: "Here are the Bing results, only with ✨privacy✨"

Reddit: (this user has deleted their entire post history using PowerDeleteMyShit. Fuck /u/Spez)

Yahoo: "Oh thank god, someone's actually using our search engine! No, we're not just Bing!" *frantically trying to cover up the giant Bing sticker* "NO DON'T GO TO GOOGLE!!!!"

Yandex: "Here are all of the Russian-owned resources on this topic. Only Russian sources are trustworthy. Everything else is fake ne—I MEAN, misinformation"

Kagi: "We'll give you what Google used to give you for free, for the low low price of $10/month!"

Ask.com: [hoarse screaming and clawing noises can be heard from the ground beneath a headstone that says "Here lies Jeeves: 1996-2006"]

🚀 New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.9.5 🚀

See the release post on our forums for more details: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-jellyfin-server-web-release-10-9-5

Or go right to the server and web release notes:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.9.5
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/releases/tag/v10.9.5

Check out my video essay on how Google RUINED the Internet, out now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/P7NHABs76mg

Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24162896/google-ai-overview-hallucinations-glue-in-pizza

"Paste as Mark Twain" is a neat demo of Microsoft's new Advanced Paste AI, but how about using AI to decide when I want to paste as plain text. (Which is 'always.')

The only thing that cures homelessness is housing.

So I mentioned last night that my open-source work on the fediverse (mastodon, pixelfed, etc) was funded for 10-13 hours per month, in my head I had a figure of €1000/month that I was using as the donation income I receive.

I just checked and it's actually closer to €700/month.

Your support for my work is greatly appreciated & helps enable work that quietly affects about a million people.

https://support.thisismissem.social

How Major League Teams Use R to Analyze Baseball Data - video presentation by Keith Woolner, principal data scientist for the Cleveland Guardians, at the Cleveland R User Group
https://youtu.be/1SR9C4td3TI?si=Ic7osZnMgb8vQd44

#RStats #SportsAnalytics @rstats

I wrote about Reddit, Stack Overflow, and how this new more extractive era of the internet has changed the bargain between platforms and users https://www.platformer.news/ai-data-licensing-reddit-stack-overflow-protest-openai/

❇️ Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #AnnArbor USA 🇺🇸 04/2024 - Title:
🔴 "Yet another bath night cut short by
Brian's free-spirited tailbone" 🦕
🟡 "Eine weitere Badenacht, die durch
Brians freies Steißbein
unterbrochen wurde." 🛁
#StreetArt #Art #Chalkart #Artist #SidewalkChalk #Dinosaur #BathNight #PullingThePlug #GoodMorning !☕🥐

As a former director for civic integrity at Twitter, I’ve been disturbed for some time about what Elon Musk is doing with his private global platform.

Today, I took the step of leaving Twitter, completely.

Why?
Here’s my last tweet:
https://mem.ai/p/e83QTrTPntGEmmZYQUEc

One of the all-time great NYT letters to the editor

From our #memes channel in our forum community <3

What #linux distro are you rocking?!

tidycensus creator Kyle Walker: “I've updated my ‘Mapping Immigrant America’ project, an interactive dot-density map of the US foreign-born population, to the latest 2018-2022 ACS data.

“Explore here: https://personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker/immigrant-america/#7.88/41.806/-87.548

“Advancements in #rstats, tidycensus, and Mapbox since I first designed the map nearly a decade ago now mean the data pipeline can run in a single morning, so future maps like this are straightforward to make”

Code: https://github.com/walkerke/mb-immigrants

#RSpatial #GIS #USCensus

DELIGHTED to say that my latest tech history column is live on Every and they've made this one free-to-read.

Because it covers one of the most overlooked founders of the golden age of computing: Lore Harp McGovern, founder of Vector Graphic who pioneered small/medium business computing.

She deserves to be better known. Certainly deserves more than a single paragraph on Wikipedia. Read and spread the word #computing #history https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-woman-that-tech-history-forgot