RIP Ask Jeeves. The natural-language search engine founded in 1996 was rebranded as Ask in 2006, and officially shut down on May 1.
Here are the Wayback Machine’s first and last captures of the site.
When websites disappear, the historical record can disappear with them. The #WaybackMachine preserves that history – capturing the web so its past remains accessible.
@ramsey technically ask jeeves was not a real natural language search engine.
source: i was one of the people paid to answer questions for them back in the day. it was a lot of fun. technically probably my first job but their accountant probably will not want to admit to writing cheques to minors.
Google needs to die & we could be observing signs that they're doing it themselves…
Looking for images of my mouse yesterday, all were from sponsored video/ review, store pages like tiktok shop, eBay, big box retailers, or the manufacturer themselves. Not a single image was indexed from community forum, micro blog, sns, repair page... absolutely nothing. Meaning everything was advertising:
We stayed in this place for nearly two weeks last month, in a fantastic free motorhome parking area. It did smell like shit (literally), but it is beautiful and close to some great hiking trails 😊
Peramola, Spain. A wonderful motorhome parking spot. Beautiful views, great mountains and hike trails around, quiet. Smells like shit, literally, but a wonderful place overall.
This video is also a testing for the new camera I (Tio) got, a DJI Osmo Pocket 3. Second hand, small and really good. Will replace my webcams too, not just my main camera.
“I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative & cynical & predict doom for the world than it is to try & figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter."
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1 of May, Workers' Day... Many humans, all obey Trade their way In this system they are prey, Celebrations on the way! Hey Hey Hey:)
This society is still primitive since it relies on everyone to trade, be a worker. Else you are fucked. There should be no celebrations about that. This trade based society has to go. Makes no sense anymore and transforms us into mindless robots.
And now from the window of a four-wheeled cab the Queen of Babylon beheld the wonders of London. Buckingham Palace she thought uninteresting; Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament little better. But she liked the Tower, and the River, and the ships filled her with wonder and delight.
“But how badly you keep your slaves. How wretched and poor and neglected they seem,” she said, as the cab rattled along the Mile End Road.
“They aren’t slaves; they’re working-people,” said Jane.
“Of course they’re working. That’s what slaves are. Don’t you tell me. Do you suppose I don’t know a slave’s face when I see it? Why don’t their masters see that they’re better fed and better clothed? Tell me in three words.”
“The realistic threat chain looks like this. An attacker exploits a known WordPress plugin vulnerability and gets shell access as www-data. They run the copy.fail PoC. They are now root on the host. Every other tenant is suddenly reachable, in the way I walked through in this hack post-mortem. The vulnerability does not get the attacker onto the box; it changes what happens in the next ten seconds after they land there.”
The opening mail by Deepti Bogadi links to a github md page saying "Web developers: strongly positive" — which file links to a github issue with one (1) comment from August. And a blog that doesn't even exist now.
That's strongly positive feedback from web developers? What?
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@Waterfox@mastodon.chrome prompt api : yeah, the architecture allows more aggregation but the progress of ai is diversifying - "intelligence" on people (chrome's prompt api) just forms a marketing profile. existing ai can research and provide online marketing anyway.. its a major step towards "ai run internet"? maybe ai can run the internet without humans having to do leg work coding 🙂
@WooShell because most of them don't care and/or are afraid of change. Not to mention that most people don't even know what a browser is or what it can do except "open Google". I can't even count how many times I've seen people google for the site they want to visit, instead of typing in the address or clicking on a bookmark.
Let's not. Kids are people, not property to be muted at a whim. If they have something to say, the government has no business stopping them from saying it in the place where the general public will hear them, and in 2026 that place is social media.
Frankly I'm shocked at how quickly freedom of speech flies out the window. When I was in school, I was taught that freedom of speech is sacred and our ancestors died for it! Am I the only one who took it to heart?
And what would you sacrifice it for? The convenience of not having to set up parental controls on the devices you give your children? That hardly justifies the burden you'd impose on everyone else.
Are you perhaps worried that your kids will find some other adult who will give them another, unlocked device and social media account to use? Because even with age verification they can still do that!
@argv_minus_one @oberstenzian When I was a teenager, I learned to make decisions about my own behavior. Yes, I did things that my parents disapproved of. We kept talking, and got through it with growth for us all.
With my own son, my wife taught me that the important part was to maintain communication. That means listening as well as speaking. Forbidding behavior shuts down that communication.
This! Kids aren't stupid. They can be reasoned with. In fact they *must* be reasoned with; they don't learn anything from unexplained commandments.
And does anyone else remember their own childhood? Sometimes I was rash and arrogant, sure, but I wasn't dumb, and neither were my fellow kids. We figured out for ourselves how to stay safe online.
Now I'm supposed to believe that kids these days aren't born with brains? Baloney. Of course they are.
@argv_minus_one I use parental controls. I’ll gladly accept more parental controls.
I’m opposed to any forms of age check bs. Especially the methods being rolled out currently.
I think commercial social media entities should be held criminally liable for allowing children on their platforms. And any sleazy ID or age check racket should be forbidden.
They’ll have to come up with a better way to prevent liability. *Like going out of business.*
@argv_minus_one My ancestors didn’t die for freedom of speech. They died to escape slsvery. And the enslavers were demanding freedom of speech for their fellow landowners, not the folks that tilled the soil.
Nationalist myths aren’t a starting point for this. But I get what you mean.
I don’t think social media as we know it was designed for freedom of speech. It can allow for it… but that’s the problem. The *allow* part.
I’d love to see everyone delete their meta, x and google accounts on the same day. #FuckMeta #fuckbigtech #FuckBillionaires oh the wonderful panic that would ensue as the tech industry goes into meltdown when they realise that they are not in control. .. Sadly, just a dream.
what's the point of banning kids from literal children's games, if a 5yo kid wants to use a tablet they would simply ask their parents to bypass the security and use it anyways. These laws are not protecting anyone
On a visit to Kentucky and just got this screen when I tried to access my DMs. Here's what age verification laws look like. Oh well, guess I'll check my Bluesky messages in California.
Google's assault on F-Droid has begun. They are permitting malicious actors to claim other people's apps and take them over. As we've warned, this is going to destroy F-Droid and independent app distribution around the world. Speak out and help stop them at keepandroidopen.org. #keepandroidOpen
Researches have found a lot of apps with malware on Google play store before, so why am I surprised..... Their new developer verification policy on Android was always about control and killing competition, don't let them brainwash you into thinking this will improve security - because they have already proven that they can't.
Today we launched code.overheid.nl: the NL government-wide code platform 🥳🥳
Code.overheid.nl is a pilot in which we are going to test @forgejo; an open source and sovereign alternative to GitHub/GitLab.
This is an initiative of @BZKopensource, in collaboration with our friends from team DAWO (SSC-ICT), @opensource , @developer , and a number of participating government orgs. 🤝
Op 24 april was de softlaunch van code.overheid.nl: één gedeelde gitomgeving voor de overheid, gebouwd op Forgejo. In deze blogpost bespreken we wat er nodig is om dat tot een succes te maken: beginnen met bouwen, en samenwerken.
De Nederlandse overheid publiceert een deel van haar broncode als vrije
opensource software. Om software te beheren is een versiebeheersysteem nodig.
Hiermee kun je veranderingen in de broncode traceren en beheren.
Dank je. Ik heb 't gelezen. Alhoewel de niet-vrije licentie van GitLab EE zeker een punt van aandacht is blijft het m.i. wat onderbelicht dat EE ook veel geavanceerde functionaliteit biedt die niet noodzakelijk ook in Forgejo zit. Of je dat als platform nodig denkt te hebben of liever zelf bouwt is een tweede. @Gina @forgejo @BZKopensource @tomootes @bo @johan @marlenabcn @opensource
make a plan for what to do when AI crawlers hit and put it in the desk for emergency (though I hope it will sit there until infinity and never be used)…
…that's the reason I moved my Forgejo instance into my VPN… >10k req from unique IPs in half an hour basically brought it down… …all to relatively "expensive" paths… …Anubis caught none…
@Gina, congrats on this great milestone! 🎉 It's awesome that government agencies are thinking about these important initiatives, wish we had a team like yours in our Ministry of digital transformation (Ukraine)... Fingers crossed for your success! 🤩🤞
Awesome! I wish #Canadians could similarly get their acts together. There is a limp-biscuited, vague policy on sovereignty here, but nothing to speak of really seems to come from it: canada.ca/en/government/system… #Canada #ElbowsUp
We intend to be active contributors. We've already found a fix to something that we'll be upstreaming. I'd like to also check for financial possibilities, but that will come after the pilot this year.
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"Overheidsorganisaties ontwikkelen samen ..." and "Uw organisatie aanmelden" gives the impression that it's meant to foster collaboration among *government* organizations.
Great ofc, but is there or will there be a facility for 'outside' contributors, ie Dutch (or why not, global) citizens to improve upon the code? (IOW: send Pull Request)
ideally yes, although I admit that we still have to work out some of the permission sets, esp while arranging a connection to the gov SSO.
Edit: more detailed answer is that ideally it should be possible to allow external, trusted and verified contributors onto the platform. What would be far more elegant is if federation came to be, so that external people can do PR's from a different Forgejo instance.
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That sounds like federation is (indeed) a much better solution.
I was thinking about (what to do with) a (hypothetical) drive-by-patch ... but opening up the platform to (literally) anyone seems 'a bit' out of scope
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