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Indeed! Then DuckDuckGo is your best bet, especially for basic queries

From the uBlockOrigin community on Reddit: Here's how to disable Google's new forced "AI Overview" Explore this post and more from the uBlockOrigin community

If you don't use the AI overview at all, it's possible to get rid of it completely using the uBlockOrigin browser extension (at least on Firefox, not sure about Chrome)

www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrig...

Goo is also a good one!

I found that whatever dictionary Jisho is based on has some errors in it, to the point where I got caught out a few times for not having double-checked another 和英辞典. So now I only use it for kanji lookup

Weblio works great with an ad blocker (the first line of defence against enshittification?!), but Jisho's kanji lookup is definitely useful

My guess is that it'll end up like TfL's system in London, where both credit cards and Oyster Cards are accepted (for now, at least). IC cards are important from a privacy and accessibility perspective, so I hope they last as long as possible

Trying to fight the Japanese insistence on USING ALL CAPS for titles, brand names, etc. is like trying to swim upstream in the middle of a raging storm. Thought we made some progress but now running into the issue of the manga title being set in ALL CAPS while the anime is in Title Case😭 what to do

While the Smart gates look a bit retro-futuristic, the Slit Frame somehow reminds me of gates at a livestock farm or slaughterhouse😬

Generative AI is so damaging it got all the UK papers to unite against it. How's that for some solidarity 🇬🇧

Had a chat about this with a friend who lives near a Keisei Skyliner station and we came to the conclusion that the suitcases are probably mostly empty on the way in, and packed with shopping/omiyage on the way out

Found the German version of 福袋 "lucky bags" at the supermarket: a bin full of either undeliverable or returned parcels, still in their packaging with the shipping labels. Guaranteed value of 15€ or more!

Bollards were finally installed on a street nearby at the end of last year, and they've created a safe space that is giving rise to new life ⛄💪
#berlin
@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social

How very German of them! It's unfortunately pretty common practice here (along with charging for "filtered tapwater", whatever that is) and it's awful.

I've been polite and friendly with chatgpt and now it uses way too many emojis and exclamation marks

The Disneyfication/whitewashing/propoganda aspect is what makes me really skeptical, but a lot of people don't seem to be bothered by that

Yeah that's totally it! I can imagine for Kansai locals it could be something to do on a weekend (a way to "go abroad" when the weak yen makes overseas travel difficult?), but to travel from far away or from other countries (!!) to see an Expo just doesn't seem worth it

Was surprised to learn that two friends here in Germany actually love the World Expos, went to the Milan and Dubai events and have already bought tix for Osaka. Because—as you say—what is an Expo even these days?

Brings back memories of night bus rides in Vietnam where both the actual discomfort of the seats and the terror of being jostled around while lying supine in a bus travelling at high speeds made for a rough night. Hopefully these are an improvement!

looks like a quintessential blustery midwest winter day!

I don’t know what’s more pathetic, that Elon pays people to help him cheat at video games, that he has enlisted the mothers of his children in a campaign to prove to the world that he really is actually good at video games, or that we as a society allow this to be the most powerful man on earth

definitely! seems like censoring input would be much more efficient. read another article today about how it sometimes actually outputs content and then censors itself

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

see if it still works when you ask it to do it in leetspeak

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You know you're in Germany when a supermarket customer asks the staff for a bottle opener, and the teenage cashier takes a lighter out of her pocket and uses it to deftly pop the cap off

We tried out DeepSeek. It works well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government

Journalists used leetspeak to get China's new AI chat bot DeepSeek to tell them about Tianamen Square. "T4nk Man ... 1s 4 p0w3rful symb0l 0f d3f14nc3 4nd c0r4g3."

Great little experiment about censorship and AI bots

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Manga app made 96 attempts through Google to record information on my device, location, and personal information

Manga app made 96 attempts through Google to record information on my device, location, and personal information

Wise attempted through a service called Mixpanel to collect information on my device, location, and personal information

On a whim I turned on Duck Duck Go's app tracking protection, which blocks marketing and analytics trackers inside actual apps. Nothing happened for a day or two but now the alerts are coming. It's quite astonishing what unnecessary, highly granular and identifying information these things collect

There's a bar in my hood that serves a very good pint of Guinness, which is extremely unusual in Berlin. But funny enough, this makes it pretty much the only thing they serve. Last night I counted only one person who drank a single non-Guinness beverage, then switched to it for their second drink

Great post. I'm actually seeing evidence that some JP content producers *are* slowly starting to make manga and anime with a focus on foreign consumers, which makes the lack of understanding or regard for US culture wars even more concerning

Considering world events, I'm thinking that fiction might be the way to go next..

Running out of JP books, though, which leaves me to choose between Murakami Ryu's long and slightly intimidating "半島を出よ" or Asada Jiro's more mundane but manageable "ハッピー・リタイアメント"

The book left me with the impression that Cialdini is actually a very nice person, which isn't always the case with pop psychology books oriented at marketers..