nice!
it works, but the rest of the internet is broken due to scraping and ddos, bot's, dns blocking by isp's and others
for indipendent vendors the hurdles are even greater.
LLM's are just another thing in a long list of technologies that I have rejected, mostly due to connections with advertising, pushing 60 now, and have never owned a TV, been on line since day 2 when images had to be hand coded, pixel by pixel, and have watched the internet fail to settle into something representitive of humanity and different societies and cultures , and become a fearsome machine to promote power, consumption,inanity,perversion, hate and fear to the unwary or weak, and yes there is a little good stuff surviving, one or two layers down, but it is all embattled and struggling to be seen.
The only up side is that due to the algorythmic suppression of dissent, outrage, and legitimate problems and dissatisfaction, those in power have blinded themselves from any ability to build something sustainable, and so hasten a real demand collapse under the pressure of people struggling to provide for there own basic needs.
There must be a saturation limit where indivuals and societies begin to toggle over in the search for alternatives, but it is set very high by natural forces, such that phenominon like the waffle iron(and sneeker) riots where people died struggling to get into stores for limited time supper sales, proves how effective and powerfull advertising realy can be, but that the line between a "great promotion" and a riot, and total demand collapse seem to be alomost on top of each other, and locked in some kind of doom loop, that may be central to what happens during civilisational collapse.
not good right now, not good at all.
I rather think it's getting better and better. LLM's great, almost AGI already. Big search is unusable, so alternatives will be taking over. But Google services are still free. Much better than when we started with the internet in 1994, 1995.
https://seek.ninja/
nice! it works, but the rest of the internet is broken due to scraping and ddos, bot's, dns blocking by isp's and others for indipendent vendors the hurdles are even greater. LLM's are just another thing in a long list of technologies that I have rejected, mostly due to connections with advertising, pushing 60 now, and have never owned a TV, been on line since day 2 when images had to be hand coded, pixel by pixel, and have watched the internet fail to settle into something representitive of humanity and different societies and cultures , and become a fearsome machine to promote power, consumption,inanity,perversion, hate and fear to the unwary or weak, and yes there is a little good stuff surviving, one or two layers down, but it is all embattled and struggling to be seen. The only up side is that due to the algorythmic suppression of dissent, outrage, and legitimate problems and dissatisfaction, those in power have blinded themselves from any ability to build something sustainable, and so hasten a real demand collapse under the pressure of people struggling to provide for there own basic needs. There must be a saturation limit where indivuals and societies begin to toggle over in the search for alternatives, but it is set very high by natural forces, such that phenominon like the waffle iron(and sneeker) riots where people died struggling to get into stores for limited time supper sales, proves how effective and powerfull advertising realy can be, but that the line between a "great promotion" and a riot, and total demand collapse seem to be alomost on top of each other, and locked in some kind of doom loop, that may be central to what happens during civilisational collapse. not good right now, not good at all.
I rather think it's getting better and better. LLM's great, almost AGI already. Big search is unusable, so alternatives will be taking over. But Google services are still free. Much better than when we started with the internet in 1994, 1995.