Posts by Warhead1954

The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge

Re: Oh, you mean that shit at the top of the search results

A few days ago one of my tech buddies told me to add '-ai' to my search queries to prevent getting 'that shit at the top of the search results" and it appears to work. I know next to bog-all about search engines, so I don't know if this just doesn't show AI results, or prevents the engine from going down the AI part. Any search geeks know the answer to this?

Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

Probably because they don't know what alternatives are out there. Your bog standard user's heard of and/or used Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Edge, DuckDuckGo, etc, etc. but has never heard of most non-stock browsers, so they stick with what they're familiar with.

Post Office finally throttles delayed in-house EPOS project

Re: Reminds me of Danny (or Gordon) Kaye...

Whoever takes this on will have to accept the pellet with the poison.

Microsoft has reached $1M giveaway levels of desperation to attract users to Bing

Re: Doesn’t have the Edge

"That’s what everyone hates."

Particularly the repeated Clickbait that recommends that you (Check it out today)

To the Moon? Emojis can be financial advice, says judge

Re: Using emojis now comes with legal warnings

I've seen the rocket ship emoji, didn't know it was to indicate sexy time to come later. Is there an emoji for "going down well?"

In the '80s, spaceflight sim Elite was nothing short of magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done

Stuck in hyperspace with Thargons

I first played Elite on a BBC B in a Learning Resource Centre at a residential training centre run by the government department I worked for in the 80s. The manager used to leave me the the key so I could stay late and try out all the kit they had in the centre, but when I discovered Elite I spent many evenings engrossed in it. There were a few occasions when I was in hyperspace and being attacked by Thargon swarms, but instead of emerging into normal space after a couple of minutes, I was stuck in there for maybe 20 minutes, although it felt like hours. I don't know if this was a bug, or intentional. Sometimes I made it through, sometimes I didn't, but I'd be soaked with sweat every time.