CileTheSane ( @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ) 33•1 month agoThis reminds me: I need to change my default search engine.
itsgroundhogdayagain ( @itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ) 29•1 month agoI’m kinda surprised he isn’t bound by some sort of NDA.
Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 24•1 month agoThe difference is that Google+ was actually a wonderful product.
But a couple years down the line Google did what Google does and destroyed it from the inside making it worse and worse until it was just a shell of what it started out being.
bolexforsoup ( @bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 24•15 days agospoiler
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Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 19•1 month agoIf you were into tech, the tech people were amazing. Yonatan Zunger comes to mind. He was a backend engineer at Google and the guy was great.
I also met many people who are still friends, many of whom became real life friends too.
I even got an amazing job thanks to my contacts on g+.
The feed layout was awesome. The fact that everything got fed to rss. The fact that you could tailor posts so easily. God I miss it. Only social media I’ve ever really been a part of.
It was wonderful ♥️
bolexforsoup ( @bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 8•15 days agospoiler
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Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 8•1 month agoPlease don’t misunderstand, I’m not saying that your experience isn’t valid, I am merely providing a counterpoint based upon my own experience.
bolexforsoup ( @bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•15 days agospoiler
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Laser ( @Laser@feddit.de ) 5•1 month agoAlso basically every Linux big name posted there. It was so great. I’m still sad it’s gone
PeriodicallyPedantic ( @PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 month agoA wonderful product or a wonderful community? It sounds like you’re describing the people who were on it and not the platform itself.
Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 1•1 month agoThe platform was wonderful. Intuitive, powerful, everything every other platform was not. Google started killing it slowly long before it died, but in its heyday it was amazing.
PeriodicallyPedantic ( @PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 month agoI have to admit I mostly only used it for testing purposes. I worked on a product that integrated with it, and I remember it being frustrating to work with. I forget the details of what frustrated me about it, though.
MonkeMischief ( @MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ) 1•1 month agoGoogle did what Google does
I remember wrapping my head around “Google Wave” and being like “Hey that sounds nea–oh it’s gone already?”
Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 2•1 month agoDude for real. Wave was awesome.
fmstrat ( @fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ) 21•1 month agoIt told me today that Harvard did research to show 165 degrees killed H1N1 in milk. The reference? Recommended cooking temp for chicken.
Juice ( @Juice@midwest.social ) 19•1 month agoI am a software developer, this story isn’t really about that though. When I was first becoming interested in coding I was reading about vr and ar and how it would be this huge multi billion dollar market in the next few years and I thought that sounded awesome, as it could enhance our lived experiences with info for the curious, or decorate the real world with computer generated architecture, sculpture, even some ads to pay for the whole thing. I said I’m gonna get into computer programming and then transition into vr/ar once I learn a few things.
Of course this didn’t pan out. 2-3 huge tech companies rushed onto the market with somewhat crappy products just to own the patents so smaller companies couldn’t innovate. When they weren’t immediately profitable they started cutting back and shutting down. Just another big tech grift, like cryptocurrency and now AI. Ai is probably the worst example of all because it got pushed out to soak up a bunch of excess cloud computing when crypto crashed, and now its a huge real estate scheme as well since there’s a big rush to build data centers to handle the artificial demand. You wanna know the next big bubble to bet against? Its ai and all the related industries.
It requires massive amounts of computing power to accomplish the most mundane tasks, which require electricity created by burning fossil fuels. All so your boss can spend less time writing emails letting you know you’ve been laid off, and political advisors can mass produce legislation to take away your rights.
alcoholicorn ( @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ) 12•1 month agoOf course this didn’t pan out. 2-3 huge tech companies rushed onto the market with somewhat crappy products just to own the patents so smaller companies couldn’t innovate. When they weren’t immediately profitable they started cutting back and shutting down.
The way advanced capitalism can’t even grow a product before trying to strangle it for every last penny is all that saves us from special Black Mirror levels of hell.
RandomVideos ( @RandomVideos@programming.dev ) 17•1 month agoReminds me of a facebook reel in which allegedly a doctor recommends to drink at least 3-5 coffees a day
casmael ( @casmael@lemm.ee ) 13•1 month agoFucking lmao
perishthethought ( @perishthethought@lemm.ee ) English12•1 month agoHow do you get the AI results on google.com? When I search for anything, it shows a summary and then all the results, sponsors, etc… Nothing is tagged as “AI”.
(I never visit google so forgive me if this has an obvious answer)
player2 ( @player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English10•1 month agoYou can opt into it and other beta technologies at Google Labs.
perishthethought ( @perishthethought@lemm.ee ) English5•1 month agoThank you!
Revan343 ( @Revan343@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 month agoAre you in the US?
perishthethought ( @perishthethought@lemm.ee ) English2•1 month agoYeah
Revan343 ( @Revan343@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 month agoI’m not sure then. Maybe Google is just rolling it out in waves, and hasn’t gotten to you yet?
perishthethought ( @perishthethought@lemm.ee ) English4•1 month agoAll good. I’ll just continue to mock their progress for now.
OpenStars ( @OpenStars@discuss.online ) English9•1 month agoI liked that insider peek from Jenson - well I liked reading all of this, but especially that:-).
Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 month agoAsking Andisearch to generate AI jokes
Blaze ( @Blaze@reddthat.com ) 3•1 month ago Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 month agoGoogle AI search is certainly good for memes
vs Andi AI
DAMunzy ( @DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•1 month agoJokes on you, I just shifted to DDG last week.