From 65518f70441c90ae953cfee0ed3dbac2a99de588 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mms Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:30:50 +0200 Subject: feat: cory 23 --- assets/ytcovers/4EmstuO0Em8.jpg | Bin 0 -> 15716 bytes content-org/blog.org | 18 +++++++-- content/blog/2024/a-million-googles.md | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ content/blog/2024/desenshittify-or-die.md | 19 ++++++++++ content/blog/2024/internet-and-press.md | 2 +- content/blog/a-million-googles.md | 58 ----------------------------- 6 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-) create mode 100644 assets/ytcovers/4EmstuO0Em8.jpg create mode 100644 content/blog/2024/a-million-googles.md create mode 100644 content/blog/2024/desenshittify-or-die.md delete mode 100644 content/blog/a-million-googles.md diff --git a/assets/ytcovers/4EmstuO0Em8.jpg b/assets/ytcovers/4EmstuO0Em8.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ca5ad5b Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/ytcovers/4EmstuO0Em8.jpg differ diff --git a/content-org/blog.org b/content-org/blog.org index d72bbdc..46bee65 100644 --- a/content-org/blog.org +++ b/content-org/blog.org @@ -8,23 +8,32 @@ #+HUGO_SECTION: blog -* 2024 [71/73] :@blog: -** TODO Disenshittify or die! +* 2024 [72/73] :@blog: +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_HUGO_SECTION: blog/2024 +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :image_dir "blog/images" :image_max_width 600 +:EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: image yt +:END: + +** DONE Disenshittify or die! +CLOSED: [2024-09-24 Tue 20:30] :PROPERTIES: :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: desenshittify-or-die :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract Another classic from Cory Doctorow :END: + It may seem that Cory Doctorow is giving the same talk over and over again, and most likely it the case. But nothing changes, therefore it's up to us. He can say it until something changes and I'll listen to him over and over again. -#+attr_shortcode: 4EmstuO0Em8 +#+attr_shortcode: "4EmstuO0Em8" #+begin_yt DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow #+end_yt + ** DONE A million Googles CLOSED: [2024-09-24 Tue 20:13] :PROPERTIES: @@ -40,7 +49,7 @@ The field is very potent now - we've dozens of different engines. Sadly, they all follow the same formula which has been already perfected by Google. You type what you are looking for, some magic happens, algorithms are algorithming, databases are databasing and boom. You get results. -This is what Google was great at some 20 years ago, but sucks now. +This is what Google was great at some 20 years ago, but sucks at now. But why? The simple answer seems to be "enshiftification". @@ -89,6 +98,7 @@ CLOSED: [2024-09-23 Mon 22:45] :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :listening Milt Jackson & John Coltrane - Bags and Trane :END: + As a kid, I loved reading computer related press. Be it gaming titles (/Secret Service/, /Gambler/, /Gry Komputerowe/, or /Świat Gier Komputerowych/), or general computing ones (/PC World/ or /Chip/) it was a monthly feast. Those have since either died or moved to the interwebs. diff --git a/content/blog/2024/a-million-googles.md b/content/blog/2024/a-million-googles.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b294b69 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024/a-million-googles.md @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ ++++ +title = "A million Googles" +author = ["Michał Sapka"] +date = 2024-09-24T20:13:00+02:00 +categories = ["blog"] +draft = false +weight = 2002 +image_dir = "blog/images" +image_max_width = 600 +abstract = "You can't outgoogle a Google" +listening = "Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement" +listening_bcamp = "https://kamasiwashington.bandcamp.com/album/fearless-movement" +listening_img = "kamasi-washington-fearless.jpg" ++++ + +I have left the Google Search Engine a few months ago - first for Duck Duck Go, and now for Kagi[^fn:1]. +The field is very potent now - we've dozens of different engines. +Sadly, they all follow the same formula which has been already perfected by Google. +You type what you are looking for, some magic happens, algorithms are algorithming, databases are databasing and boom. +You get results. +This is what Google was great at some 20 years ago, but sucks at now. + +But why? +The simple answer seems to be "enshiftification". +They replaced their technical founders with some random seller of opium - be it ads, server space, or (more recently) GenAI. +And yes, Google got progressively worse in a relatively short time span. +Yet, no one comes close to Google in its prime time. + +The web has changed. +All the principles that made Google great were discovered, analysed and weaponised against the search engine. +"SEO" is what make the web worse because your clients/users/whatever are not your visitors, but the Algorithm. +With each following round, Google's engineers would try to adjust to the status quo, but the SEO crowd would win again. +Sooner of later, the Search Algorithm would fail, and it would again be used against the poor bloke searching for the best printer out there. + +It's not that Pichai came and decided to make the search useless. +His money-chasing decisions made it worse, but even without his interference, the results would get worse. +Google had the best engineers out there, and they were destined to fail. +What makes you think that **you** will win this battle? + +I am in full support for new search engines. +There is nothing worse than a monopoly, even if that monopoly would be effective. +But I don't believe that simply trying to outgoogle a Google is the way to go. +We need a new paradigm. + +Kagi proposed something new with manual boosting of websites and "lenses", but it's not enough to become amazing. +It's better, but not great. +It's still only trying to add a quad damage to an Algorithm. +The only reason that SEOholes are not winning against Kagi is that Kagi is invisible. +Too small for them to care. +The web they create is still enshittifieed, but it's done against Google. +Is this an accept table solution? +Well, they may have crapped the carpet, but not in my bedroom! + +We **deserve** a better web. +We can even call it Web3 (as no one remembers that Web3 was to be about crypto), but it needs fresh ideas. +Simply walking the same old paths, just with a funny walk, is not enough. +And no, GenAi is not an answer, unless the question is the reason of our destruction. +Death to the omnipotent algorithm! + +[^fn:1]: Thanks, Louis! diff --git a/content/blog/2024/desenshittify-or-die.md b/content/blog/2024/desenshittify-or-die.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4ce378 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024/desenshittify-or-die.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ ++++ +title = "Disenshittify or die!" +author = ["Michał Sapka"] +date = 2024-09-24T20:17:00+02:00 +categories = ["blog"] +draft = false +weight = 2001 +image_dir = "blog/images" +image_max_width = 600 +abstract = "Another classic from Cory Doctorow" ++++ + +It may seem that Cory Doctorow is giving the same talk over and over again, and most likely it the case. +But nothing changes, therefore it's up to us. +He can say it until something changes and I'll listen to him over and over again. + +{{< yt "4EmstuO0Em8" >}} +DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow +{{< /yt >}} diff --git a/content/blog/2024/internet-and-press.md b/content/blog/2024/internet-and-press.md index 2cb4637..0c5fe7f 100644 --- a/content/blog/2024/internet-and-press.md +++ b/content/blog/2024/internet-and-press.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ author = ["Michał Sapka"] date = 2024-09-23T22:45:00+02:00 categories = ["blog"] draft = false -weight = 2001 +weight = 2002 image_dir = "blog/images" image_max_width = 600 abstract = "Grumpy mc grumps grumping" diff --git a/content/blog/a-million-googles.md b/content/blog/a-million-googles.md deleted file mode 100644 index c5d81cd..0000000 --- a/content/blog/a-million-googles.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,58 +0,0 @@ -+++ -title = "A million Googles" -author = ["Michał Sapka"] -date = 2024-09-24T20:13:00+02:00 -categories = ["blog"] -draft = false -weight = 2002 -abstract = "You can't outgoogle a Google" -listening = "Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement" -listening_bcamp = "https://kamasiwashington.bandcamp.com/album/fearless-movement" -listening_img = "kamasi-washington-fearless.jpg" -+++ - -I have left the Google Search Engine a few months ago - first for Duck Duck Go, and now for Kagi[^fn:1]. -The field is very potent now - we've dozens of different engines. -Sadly, they all follow the same formula which has been already perfected by Google. -You type what you are looking for, some magic happens, algorithms are algorithming, databases are databasing and boom. -You get results. -This is what Google was great at some 20 years ago, but sucks now. - -But why? -The simple answer seems to be "enshiftification". -They replaced their technical founders with some random seller of opium - be it ads, server space, or (more recently) GenAI. -And yes, Google got progressively worse in a relatively short time span. -Yet, no one comes close to Google in its prime time. - -The web has changed. -All the principles that made Google great were discovered, analysed and weaponised against the search engine. -"SEO" is what make the web worse because your clients/users/whatever are not your visitors, but the Algorithm. -With each following round, Google's engineers would try to adjust to the status quo, but the SEO crowd would win again. -Sooner of later, the Search Algorithm would fail, and it would again be used against the poor bloke searching for the best printer out there. - -It's not that Pichai came and decided to make the search useless. -His money-chasing decisions made it worse, but even without his interference, the results would get worse. -Google had the best engineers out there, and they were destined to fail. -What makes you think that **you** will win this battle? - -I am in full support for new search engines. -There is nothing worse than a monopoly, even if that monopoly would be effective. -But I don't believe that simply trying to outgoogle a Google is the way to go. -We need a new paradigm. - -Kagi proposed something new with manual boosting of websites and "lenses", but it's not enough to become amazing. -It's better, but not great. -It's still only trying to add a quad damage to an Algorithm. -The only reason that SEOholes are not winning against Kagi is that Kagi is invisible. -Too small for them to care. -The web they create is still enshittifieed, but it's done against Google. -Is this an accept table solution? -Well, they may have crapped the carpet, but not in my bedroom! - -We **deserve** a better web. -We can even call it Web3 (as no one remembers that Web3 was to be about crypto), but it needs fresh ideas. -Simply walking the same old paths, just with a funny walk, is not enough. -And no, GenAi is not an answer, unless the question is the reason of our destruction. -Death to the omnipotent algorithm! - -[^fn:1]: Thanks, Louis! -- cgit v1.2.3