The solution to your favorite search engine stuffing AI dogshit into itself is to return to the old ways.
You're gonna have to make friends with an autistic person you can ask about stuff.
In the Old Times we would assemble ourselves into "webrings". We would share our knowledge to the internet, discoverable only through a shared animated gif banner, and each team of hyperfixated experts would have their own dramas about who should be banished from the webring. A more elegant time.
Except, in the spirit of calling a rabbit a smeerp, the dogshit the AI feeds itself is instead called Bullshytt, and somehow also exudes a field capable of preserving quantum entanglement.
open street maps exists, but doesn't have the same satellite and/or streetview datasets that Google owns
(aside: copyright should be abolished and all privately owned data liberated for the good of the public!)
Yeah, the big thing being I'm often in towns of like 400 people to find a business to ensure they meet our criteria and google maps can't be beat for their coverage of rural areas in SK.
oh, I don't trust them, and a part of liberating that data would be to allow public audit and correction of it
and I fear it's going to get worse before it gets better with the way google keeps enshittifying everything they own
Don't trust emaps. When my spouse delivered, Google maps were required yet dangerously wrong.
The most perilous? A dark early eve, the claimed bridge ahead did NOT actually exist. Something told them to not trust it, and I'm so glad they listened---turned out the drop would have killed them.🤬
I can't get maps of every town I have to go to. Most maps would be so outdated. Emaps are better than paper maps for my usage.
That said, I do tend to research the areas I'm going into to see if I can avoid surprises
Yeah, that was what I was saying and the other guy was insisting they were British and so then someone had the bright idea to call and find out from a rock'n'roll authority.
*tents fingers* and how much is it worth to you to befriend an autist with special interest in wading through shittified search engine results? it's old liberry's time to shine!!! :D
For me and a lot of others, it's a matter of learning from experience. I've picked up a great deal because I've nearly died a whole bunch of times from a whole bunch of different causes.
My diagnosis list doesn't fit within the character limit.
what’s fun is searching for reference screenshots of, say, julian bashir and garak for fan art purposes and having to add stuff like “-site:openart.ai”
don’t ask me how i know