there are a bunch of people my age and older who still think of microsoft as the evil empire, and I’m like, dipshits, its 2023, microsoft is the good guys now haven’t yall been paying attention?
well.
I tried installing edge on my mac and FUCK YOU MICROSOFT FUCK YOU SATYA FUCK YOU BALMER FUCK YOU BILL FUCKING GATES GO TO FUCKING HELL ALL OF YOU SHITBAGS
lol i installed edge on my mac too. a sentence i never thought I would say
I think they’re still bad guys, but they just are less ham-fisted about it now, so they look good compared to other tech companies. Especially the scum social media comps (Facebook, Twitter, etc.).
I’m curious, why? I’m a web guy so I’d be happy using Chrome on Mac for testing, since Edge is Chromium-based now. (Or is it, on Mac?)
Otherwise I try to avoid Edge because it’s near-impossible to get it to start up with a blank page (I hate all the click-bait “feeds” they throw in your face) and it’s always trying to take over as my default browser, along with slipping its tentacles into other parts of my workflow.
new bing is only on edge luuuul
Oh, didn’t know that. What’s the draw with new Bing?
(I guess I’ve so thoroughly internalized the “evil empire” mindset pvn alluded to that I automatically reject any Microsoft-related product or information – unless forced to for work – without even evaluating it on its merits.)
I’ve only got apple pegged as the “good” guys since they seem to be the only company that gives one iota of a fuck about data privacy
i’ve only had one workday with it so far but comparing it to Google already I like it better. tends to give the most relevant result right away
Yeah, they’re comparatively good in that category. But I hate the OS, admittedly at least partly from ignorance about how to use it best. And the smugness that oozes from every part of the Apple ecosystem is a real turn-off for me.
Google is wrecking their search business more and more all the time. Too bad, I remember when they steamrollered Yahoo and Altavista because they were a million times better…
there’s been advisories from the govt and security agencies telling people to be careful with google - the ads are blatant malware a lot, google isn’t even really trying to do anything about it.
^^^
fwiw 99% of my interactions with microsoft are azure (where they are a major underdog to aws) and github (which is sort of independent though I think we’re starting to see some tightening).
first time working with github a lot and I hate it. You can’t even partial match when searching, so if you want to find something like “host” it will only match that exact string, but not for instance if it’s surrounded by quotes in the code. It’s so useless I wonder why it’s even there.
lol this is totally unnecessary bundling exactly like MS got in trouble with the feds for 25 years ago, except I guess now no one gives a shit about that stuff?
Imagine Google being like “you can only use Google search on Chrome”, maybe right now that would be a misstep but several years ago that would have (likely illegally) crushed every other browser out of existence.
google paid $20billion for google to be default search engine on ios lol
the funny thing is, unless google pivots hard, and I have read some good analyses that suggests they can’t, I think bing has potential to take a big chunk out of them and google’s definitely a bit shook.
Microsoft’s AI-Boosted Bing Can Run Rings Around Google Search - CNET
to me it definitely seems better even right off the bat using it. I didn’t realize how many dumb/bad google results I just mindlessly scroll through when I use it.
or googling something like “X Y Z” and every result is like:
does not include: X Y Z | must include: X Y Z
As documented here
Trumpbot is currently busted.
One thing that’s puzzling for me is that even when routing through a proxy, I see different results on my home computer versus on AWS. Like I can run
curl --proxy proxy-server.com --proxy-user myaccountinfo https://truthsocial.com/...
on my laptop and it will (often, depending on the rotating proxy) work, whereas the same command on an AWS box will never work. I would think the use of the proxy should make the source of the request irrelevant, because Truth should see it the same & coming from the proxy in both cases, but clearly that assumption is wrong; anyone know why/how that’s the case? The answer might help resurrect Trumpbot.
try that proxy with https://httpbin.org/ip on both and see what comes back to verify
could be using some kind of device fingerprinting or looking at your headers too? if so, maybe a different vm would work?
fine letting it die
On some days I might understand this, but not today!
Adding to my confusion is that, on my laptop where Truth works, I’m now getting errors running what should be the exact HTTP request depending on whether I use curl (fine) or Go (not fine). Like I would think this command
curl -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0' 'https://truthsocial.com/api/v1/accounts/107780257626128497/statuses?exclude_replies=true&min_id=110113808184666539&with_muted=true'
should have exactly the same output as this program
package main
import "io/ioutil"
import "log"
import "net/http"
func main() {
rawURL := `https://truthsocial.com/api/v1/accounts/107780257626128497/statuses?exclude_replies=true&min_id=110113808184666539&with_muted=true`
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", rawURL, nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0")
resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
data, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
log.Println("output:", string(data))
}
but they do not. The curl command works for me, the program says (this is Cloudflare blocking):
2023/03/30 15:47:15 output: error code: 1020
I got Trumpbot working locally by literally adding a exec.Command("curl", ...) inside the Go program lol, so dumb
i’m sorry man. go ahead and ‘rm -rf /*’ and reinstall.