• NewOldGuard [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      19 hours ago

      Alternate search engines exist and work just fine. Hop on duckduckgo or qwant, disable their little summary features, and boom regular reliable search engine with no LLM slop built in. You could also go straight to a resource, like Brittanica or Wikipedia, and look up your info there. The only thing I use Google for is Scholar to find papers and for YouTube, everything else has a better replacement and has done for years now.

    • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 day ago

      option a) evolve. the internet is changing for the worse so our search skills have to get better.

      option b) retvrn. libraries are still pretty cool places to get information.

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        19 hours ago

        Heheh… walking through the local library months ago and there’s a huge shelf of climan denier books in the non-fiction section. Its… not good folks.