Yeah, I probably spent too much time refining it. Better skip the editing next time, and stick with the initial draft.

Subscribed!
Gotta say, I didn’t have any cooking stuff in my feed. Like, none at all, because I couldn’t care less.
The food I make is super simple, because I ignore all recipes, so what good is a cooking show to me. I’ll just wing it by throwing in some tasty ingredients in a pot and calling it a meal. Just add and heat, time and agitation. Works every time.

Fair enough. Besides, I already have many slop channels I don’t watch. Meaning, I played on video while doing the dishes, subscribed to it, and never heard from it again. There are surprisingly many channels that were created about a month ago, have only 15 subscribers, and those videos have like, 5 views, zero likes and zero comments. I find those kinds of channels all the time now. However, If I subscribe to all of them, they might become big enough to ruin YT for everyone else as well. I see that as a win-win situation.

When I initially started this experiment, the first thing was to unsubscribe from everything I had actually found worth watching in the past. Then, I wanted to check what’s going on in the “trending page”, only to find out it no longer exists. No wonder why. It only had stuff that was apparently very popular to millions of people, but it never had anything I wanted to click, let alone spend time watching. Apparently, that was also true for many other people since YT got rid of the whole thing. That would have been my go-to solution.

Anyway, the not logged in front page is probably the next best thing. I’ll give that a try. Thanks!.

Ooh, and it’s a big channel too. The algorithm must love that one. Subscribed!

And this is world news because…

Cities: skylines

This one doesn’t even require Proton, since it’s Linux native. It’s also a very chill game.

You need the following:

• Plastic pipes
• end caps
• wool yarn
• table salt
• citric acid
• soy lecithin
• shampoo
• alarm clock
• popcorn

Leave all of it scattered on the table and let your friend’s imagination run wild.

But seriously though, it depends on the type of aliens we’re encountering here. If they’re malevolent, they will probably wipe the earth clean and take all the resources.

If they’re more benevolent, they’ll just take pity on us, and turn back. Humanity is a problem that will fix itself if you just give it some time.

I know many people who use meta platforms, and they don’t seem to be very happy with the material they find. AI slop is getting totally out of control over there.

When I want to talk to friends and family, I just give them a call, send an SMS or have a group chat on signal. I don’t need meta platforms for that.

YouTube is a mixed bag though. I still find some value in there, but that’s through sheer quantity of videos in there. Finding good ones is getting harder every year. Alternative platforms are getting better, but the selection seems to be pretty narrow by comparison.

I tend to block most of the internet cancer out there and only hang out in places where the internet doesn’t suck that hard. Anything touched by Meta is obviously out of the question. So as far as what people generally call social media is concerned, I just avoid all of it. Nothing of value was lost when I abandoned that burning pile of trash. Lemmy is ok though. It’s clearly a social media, but everything about it is just so different that it probably doesn’t even count as a “social media” in this context.

What about AI then? It’s complicated. AI in general is pretty cool, but I’m using that word in a very broad sense. Stuff like isolating human voices from a messy audio signal involves AI. When a camera focuses on a human face, it’s using AI. When your postal service uses OCR to read the address off a letter, it’s using AI. Oh wait, nowadays even your phone can do OCR. Anyway, none of that really counts in this context, now does it? That’s not the AI people are angry about.

AI that generates text, audio, pictures and video definitely counts, but that’s just a fraction of what AI really is. It’s currently visible, popular, widely used and commonly discussed. That’s the type you’re really asking about, now isn’t it? My answer: it’s still complicated. The technology itself is just fine. The way it’s used to ruin the internet isn’t.

For example, LLMs love to use specific phrases and people love to use LLMs to generate text for anything and everything. What you get is AI slop text that has all the telltale signs of being generated by an LLM and proofread by nobody. The internet is filling up with low-effort trash like that, and I’m completely fed up with all of it. Still not fed up with AI as a whole though. Everything under the peak of that ice berg is still very cool.

Yes. Nothing lasts forever.

For millennia, horses used to be crucial for everyday life. Nowadays, we have cars, airplanes and other CO2 emitting atrocities that made horses effectively obsolete. Before the petrochemical industry changed the world, it was very hard to imagine life without horses. When was the last time you saw someone plow a field with a horse? Oh, you haven’t even worked on the fields. Oh, boy has the world changed in unbelievable ways.

For centuries, paper letters were the standard form of long distance communication. Before the internet, it would have been pretty impossible to imagine life without letters. When was the last time you received, let alone wrote one of those? Yeah, the world has changed, now hasn’t it.

Sooner or later, all the famous sites will be obsolete, just like oil lamps, gas stoves, and quills. Currently, it’s pretty hard to imagine what that new thing would be. Usually, these changes happen gradually. Eventually, you just realize you haven’t used that old thing in a while, because you’ve been using the new thing for such a long time.

They ran out of money long before LLMs took over the search business.

Besides, regular TV channels and their programs suck. Nothing of value was lost when I decided skip connecting my TV cable. It’s basically a glorified display now, and the computer provides all the videos I could ever want.

You could think of it as a “smart TV” setup of sorts, since the computer is smart and can do so much more than any smart TV out there. You can watch all sorts of streaming stuff on it, it can block ads, and even YouTube is barely tolerable now that I installed sponsor block. I’ve even installed Steam on the PC and played some simple games on it. It’s not quite a console yet, but after a few upgrades it could be.

That’s why you get a computer, slap it under a large TV or display and watch online videos with ublock origin on. The computer gets the ethernet while the TV gets the HDMI.

I’m beginning to see a pattern here. Billionaires say we don’t need balance or unions, but those are the things that actually improve the quality of my life. So, the billionaires are effectively saying I shouldn’t enjoy my life.

No risk, no reward. You wanna fly the coolest airship or not.

You can also use unobtanium plates with adamantium rivets if you want to make it look cooler.

That’s why you put a vacuum in there. It’s made of nothing, so it doesn’t react, and there’s plenty of it in the universe. Besides, it’s also lighter than anything else you could throw in there.

So far, oil has been absurdly cheap. Because of that, various industries have been built on the idea of bringing stuff. If oil becomes more expensive, all those industries will suffer, because someone just pulled out one of the cornerstones.