ellie (slut arc) 🖤 
whoever the fuck decided that ecosia should have an llm generating answers to search queries should be shoved down the stairs and break something
the introduction of so-called "AI" into products whose users obviously and definitely Do Not Want It, such as ecosia or at mozilla, exemplifies the sheer soullessness of the nonprofit industrial complex. evidently the people making decisions at ecosia don't actually care about the environment, or being sustainable, or planting trees (which tbh is a very simplistic solution to a complex problem to begin with). No, to them ecosia is just a step on their career path like any other, and they're clearly more focused on being able to write "spearheaded introduction of AI at [company]" in their resume than they are on making good decisions that actually further the goals the nonprofit is ostensibly for.
The Nonprofit is a monument to the failures of liberalism
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@roadblock161_ I gave up on Ecosia when they *repeatedly* moaned about me using adblockers (as its only rebranded Bing search anyway, same as DuckDuckGo)
Sharp Cheddar Goblin@vfrmedia @roadblock161_ Same here. Unfortunately there really are no decent search services. I'm begrudgingly using DDG with no-AI flags for now, and accepting that internet searches are absolute garbage no matter what.
sb arms & legs@SharpCheddarGoblin @vfrmedia @roadblock161_
There's a meta search engine called #SearxNG that searches up to dozens of different sites, then returns the results to you. No ai. No ads. No BS.
I run my own instance here, but there are many to choose from: https://search.sbcloud.cc
Brad Macpherson
Eugene 
@brad @sb @SharpCheddarGoblin @vfrmedia @roadblock161_ Uh, there are some work to add ChatGPT, Bing Chat and other LLMs to the SearXNG:
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2163
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2008
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2273
Also devs unable to use their own natural intelligence to make a code review and asking Copilot about it: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues?q=copilot
@evgandr @brad @sb @vfrmedia @roadblock161_ Great. I decide to set up a local SearXNG service to try out for a while and these assholes are trying to fuck this up too. Fuck these fucking sloplords straight into the sea.
@SharpCheddarGoblin @evgandr @brad @sb @roadblock161_
why do people even do this? its like someone discovering a new fishing lake, and then pouring used motor oil into it and still continuing to fish there...
@SharpCheddarGoblin Totally agree 🤝
@vfrmedia I don't know, but I have some theory — maybe these people don't like the process of building new things and all what they need — the working result. Before they were "forced" to create something before using it. Or to pay the real creator.
But LLMs gave them possibility to get semi-working things without being incorporated into the process of creation. So, looks like they are happy and think that everyone should share their delight
CC: @brad @sb @roadblock161_
@evgandr @sb @SharpCheddarGoblin @vfrmedia @roadblock161_ God motherfucking damn it all to hell.
That's it, back to Excite.