Hash BangMar 14
dmi 💽
judging online information quality based on site where it appeared: a comprehensive guide

- "How To (...)" in the title, cookie banners, lots of side-information written in a way that wastes your time: SEO slop, don't bother. You might as well make a wild guess, same likelyhood it'll be correct

- official docs for $x, autogenerated by a rube-goldberg machine and automagically pushed into whatever-pages by a fully-skidoodled, post-quantum CI pipeline: describes everything, except the exact fact you're looking for.

- no HTTPS, tilde in the name, DNS with 4+ dots, likely hosted on some dusty uni server, white background with absolutely no CSS: one of the best resources on the subject. you question how it's even still online

- site titled "Garry's blog", default wordpress favicon, last update either previous month or 12 years ago: golden. crystal-clear exposition, good examples and screenshots framed so well you don't even need arrows pointing places. likely used as a cheat-sheet daily by everyone in the community
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Show threaddmi 💽 Mar 14
one like == one thank you to Garry 🙏
Show threadachillMar 14
@domi thank you Gerry 🙏
Show threadhug0Mar 14
@domi Would be fun to have some sort of metric for this that weights into the search results.
Show threaddmi 💽 Mar 14
@hugo if i ever end up making a search engine, something i don’t wish upon myself,
Show threadOssie Mar 14
@hugo @domi https://marginalia-search.com/ is one I use sometimes that upweights raw HTML pages! Good for finding this sort of thing.
Marginalia Search

Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.

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Show threadbeaiouns Mar 14
@spacefinner this is so cool!
Show threadLoohoosaherMar 14
@hugo I want to say get people to do it but I think I would just end up reinventing SEO but make it DIY
Show threadhacknorris4d ago
@hwll @hugo even ads may be OK in these times tbh… https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115415993694346804
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Show threadAndrewMar 15
@hugo @domi The personal blogs with the good content are much less likely to have ads on them, so it wouldn't surprise me if some search engines reduced the ranking.
Show threadSaphire LatticeMar 14

@domi I'm quite a fan of lua manual

It won't let you solve an error, those are likely because you forgot an `end` or misnamed something

But it will help you with building just about anything from the basic matchsticks and glue

Show threadsnowyfoxMar 14
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Show threadMiyazepam 5mgMar 14
@[email protected] real, we have the latter in biohacking, like this is the best guide about glow scars, it's used as reference by everyone, and it's really just someone's random WordPress blog that's barely updated https://bioduck.me/2025/06/03/glow-powder-cuttings/
Show threadirelephantMar 14
Shout-out to that one painters WordPress blog that perfectly explained how to clean up large amounts of spilled paint.
Show threadKimMar 14
@[email protected] I'll add: Support forum thread from 8 years ago. Describes your problem perfectly and spells out why several potential solutions don't actually work. Stops short of actually solving the problem.

Belatedly, you realise you were the original poster.
Show threadkikebenllochMar 14
@kim @domi OFFICIAL support forum. 😆 😭
Show threadPeter 🔜 EMFMar 14
@kim I've had a variant of that at work. I searched for an error and found a a thread on it, but it didn't contain a resolution. I raised it with our dev team, including the link to what I found. A dev replies and admitted he was the OP of the tread.
Show threadEloy.Mar 14

@domi I like adding Garry's blog to Wikipedia in "external links" or "further reading" sections because those don't have the strong reliable source requirements

"4. Sites that fail to meet criteria for reliable sources yet still contain information about the subject of the article from knowledgeable sources." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:ELMAYBE

Wikipedia:External links - Wikipedia

Show threadMichael NewtonMar 14
@[email protected] @[email protected] ​A couple of weeks ago, somebody mentioned they were using a blog post of mine from 2013 to guide them in their current project. It is, in fact, on a blog titled Mavnn's Blog
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Show threadJake in the desertMar 14
@domi 🔥🔥🔥
Show threadCaleb MaclennanMar 14
@domi
- AI Sloperifica: immaculate landing page with hero images and grid layout elements, bold typography in 247 shades of purple, dazzling parallax effects, fawning prose, all the best buzzwords, and promises all worldly wealth. Hold it up to the light, no substance in sight.
Show threadChamomile 🐑Mar 14
@domi Nowadays when I search for something if I see a long intro paragraph describing the exact, simple question I asked followed by an index with a dozen sections I immediately close the page.
Show threadHumbird0 FandomMar 14

@domi
Another common sign is when it spends half the article explaining in the most long-winded way possible, the most boneheaded basics of what the subject even is, then follows it up with "therefore it's important to know how to..."

You can just tell when has been written to waste as much of your time as possible.

Show threadAlistair KMar 14

@domi

- Long preamble about why you might want to know this. Probably won't get to an answer, but might end by re-stating the question and saying that the question is important.

- Long autobiographical preface, most of it digressive and gratuitous rather than prefatory. Followed by numerous photos purporting to document the process, but not really showing much at all. Ends with a trite non-answer about the author's personal experience.

Show threadelilla&, famigerada travestiMar 14

@domi you're looking for how to frobnicate the fubar, and you found a website titled fubar frobnicating dot net right at the top domain level:

- if it's 2003: you struck gold, it will have everything you need.
- if it's 2023: it's the cognitive hazard, toxic type of slop. if you read it you will know *less* than you did before

Show threadMark GardnerMar 14

@domi @europlus

  • Page hosted on Medium or Substack: Throw it into the sea
Show threadJulia RezMar 14

@domi

- a 156-post github issue thread. Nine of the posters have a different problem which may be fixed by updating their workstation. One poster reports that replacing the wiring in his house was the root cause.

The solution is marked as 'wontfix'.

Show threadit's pronounced 'yagoda'Mar 14
@domi some old forum post where someone describes your exact problem, it has a single reply "You didn't google hard enough: <link>", it's 404.
Show threadcontraptionMar 15
@domi pour one out for Sheldon Brown
Show threadRobin Bobcat6d ago

@domi

One of my absolute favorite websites is the Atomic Rockets page. Basically a resource for all things Hard Sci Fi, it is an early web time capsule, dense with information, but is updated regularly.
https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/

Atomic Rockets - Atomic Rockets

Show threadEtherbloom3d ago
@domi - Favicon is company logo: Run
Show threadJigme Datse2d ago
@[email protected] Sadly... The ones useful are often hard to find, hence I've gone and created some of my own cheat sheets on my own Forgejo instance. Also (but harder to handle) longer form stuff that I have on my website.