There’s AI slop websites for everything now. Flood the zone with enough garbage that traditional search engines can’t find anything, force people to use AI where the narrative is controlled.
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I noticed this even before the sloppening I think it’s good old fashioned SEO
The Sloppening. Hehehe.
The text is definetly slop, though.
It’s happening to all difficult problems. I’ve been searching for help with car wiring diagram or trouble codes and getting endless copies of slop scraped websites from DDG.
They often appear to be generated on the fly and rarely have any real information in them past the relevant search term. No real info. Super fucking frustrating.
TIL about footnotes in markdown. Neat!
Wait how the fu...
Looks like markdown is converted to html syntax. In-text:
<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1">[1]</a></sup>
And footer section:
<hr class="footnotes-sep">
<section class="footnotes">
<ol class="footnotes-list">
<li id="fn1" class="footnote-item"><p dir="auto">Don’t want to give them the traffic. <a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-backref">↩︎</a></p>
</li>
</ol>
</section>
From there they can be stylized. Pretty neat. More info
It's kind-of funny. Nowadays, I find the AI search assistants (I used the one with Kagi) work better than search results with all of these shitty AI sites.
We're back to the age of pre-StackOverflow, when Expert Sex Change was always plaguing my search results with fucking pay-to-view bullshit. Except it's free-but-useless websites now.
You know, I was like, wtf is slop-y. If they mean it's slop, it should be sloppy. But then I figured, sloppy is ambiguous, ok, so what about slopp-y, for clarity? But that makes no sense because, well, it don't, so, all right, maybe slop-y, that would wo- ooooooooooooh...
Lookup "splog".
Welcome to the year of the linux desktop. Now solving linux problems is big business!
What you’re saying about drops on a lotus leaf hits though. There’s something weird about the prose on those sites that’s significantly different than even ai text I’ve made at home on my own hardware.
Sometimes it feels like the opposite of meditation where I can feel something tugging “up” in the top center of my skull when “reading” one of those pages but don’t remember what the page was about.
Sometimes it feels like the opposite of meditation where I can feel something tugging “up” in the top center of my skull when “reading” one of those pages but don’t remember what the page was about.
This is your brain on slop.
This will change your life: https://ublacklist.github.io/docs
was about to add this. kinda sad that I had to give up my searxng instance because I can't get ublacklist to work on it (works on some public instances)
How did I not know about this? Thanks!
Awesome. How have I never used this before
Nature is healing.
Neat... Is there an alternative for people who don't use google? 😅
It works on each of these:
https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist#supported-search-engines
Searxng and ddg? Nice! 🤩🤩
Thanks a bunch! ❤️
It blocks on all the major engines. DDG included.
OH man, thank you for that!
Wait, doesn't this just duplicate uBlock functionality? You can just add the lists directly to uBlock, or am I missing something?
I have heard before that you can just add it to uBlock Origin, yeah.
Hey so just because I went on a spree, here's a bunch of lists you can choose from to import into uBlock since that's super simple already, and this other addon requires you to add them anyway so:
Thank you very much, do you have recommendations on lists to subscribe to?
Nothing in particular. They all seem about the same to me. Check top rankings on GitHub perhaps.