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Rob RicciToday in mistakes: encouraging a student to google `powertop`. They did not get the Linux power-reporting tool.
Princess NO CARRIER@ricci happy pride!
Giovanni Campagna@ricci did you suggest "man powertop" next?
ehurtley 
@ricci “What do you mean the pants from ‘Wallace and Gromit The Wrong Trousers’ aren’t called ‘power bottoms’?”
@ehurtley More like the RIGHT trousers amirite?
Joe@ricci Strange. When I google it I get the Linux tool. Then I thought that perhaps it's based on my search history, I've run Linux since the early 90s. But I went incognito and tried again, still nothing porny. Perhaps it has to do with your student's history?
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Karl Statz@ricci this is like when I went to visit my now wife in DC for a weekend and googled "Bear Bars in DC". They even put the bears game on and it was a lovely time
@kstatz12 happy ending indeed
@ricci the only real downside is my wife got to see what "Chicago Sports Depression" looks like
@kstatz12 relatable, many of my in-laws are Cubs fans, I assume because they hate themselves or something
@ricci cubs fans are a special kind. Hot take: Wrigley Field is an objectively bad place to watch a baseball game
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Vivia 🦆🍵
@ricci Interesting. The whole first page of my DuckDuckGo search results is the Linux power-reporting tool. Had to go to Images to have a clear picture of what the other meaning was.
Andreas Scherbaum@ricci First link: ubuntuusers.de page about the Linux tool, second link: Arch Linux wiki about the Linux tool, third link: GitHub link to the tool's repository.
The entire first page is about the Linux tool. What am I missing here?
The entire first page is about the Linux tool. What am I missing here?
@ascherbaum try looking it up on Urban Dictionary
mc.fly@ricci without having safe search on - i still mostly get that linux tool. 2 links on the first page are something different - something with a smart roof.
Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤@ricci you should have knooooown
mcherm@ricci Google's search results are quite individualized. I just tried the Google search for "powertop" and the first 21 results were all related to the unix utility. The 22nd was urban dictionary.
dprk_ebooks@ricci feels like one of the situations where googling 'man powertop' wouldn't help at all
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Matthew Flint@ricci
I googled “tromboning” recently, and didn’t find the information I wanted about exfiltrating data from a network.
I googled “tromboning” recently, and didn’t find the information I wanted about exfiltrating data from a network.
helplessduckThis whole thread is deeply hilarious. You people are amazing.
MeowcaTheoRange 
@ricci i love the internet
SigmundFreudsBartender@ricci First thing that shows up in my search on ddg
Murad@ricci Not as bad as #SusanAlbumParty but still concerning...
Océane ⏚
alternative_be✅🖖🏻@ricci These days Google excells in weird search results.
Steve Gisselbrecht@ricci
I once had to use a highly regarded tool for calling topological domains from genomic data, and spent a month discussing TopDom with an undergrad, and I'm sorry, we can't have straight people naming things, it's just not working at all.
I once had to use a highly regarded tool for calling topological domains from genomic data, and spent a month discussing TopDom with an undergrad, and I'm sorry, we can't have straight people naming things, it's just not working at all.
Beko Pharm (deprecated)@ricci worked fine for me. First hit was Arch Wiki, which is exceptional good usually (not even using Arch but hey…).
Google Search _is_ personalized though.
Calum@bekopharm @ricci Same… not just the first hit, but entire first page of results. I can’t even imagine what else it might have found tbh (and I don’t want to!)
Hamza@ricci Never forget that there's NO spaces in tools' names :) :)
@hamza Except, of course, in the cases where there is :) You just can't win.
Noah Cook@ricci There are similar issues in medicine as a reason to type everything out rather than using acronyms. Experience has taught me to explicitly warn people to spell out Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, for example, when searching.
Koutsie 
David POh, "powertop" finds the Linux tool, whereas "power top" does not.