Encouraged by a colleague, I’ve switched to using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine instead of Google.
It’s not even about privacy for me, and only a little about avoiding the ads. Instead, it’s all about getting rid of the nonsense AI response at the top of the results.
There’s been this example floating around the web for months. If you ask Google if it will be 2027 next year, it confidently tells you:
It is 2026 right now, and will be 2028 next year, followed by 2027.
After several months of people posting screenshots and poking fun at it, Google’s AI is just getting more convinced, using those posts as a reference. Someone said so on the internet, so it must be true!
This is the most blatant example, but for most other things, the primary source seems to be either a random bloke on Reddit saying something or some page that, when you click through to it, says nothing about the topic at all.
So, no thank you. I’m quite happy getting real search results instead.
It’s amusing/annoying how the Apple devices at home respond whenever anyone says “Hey Siri” in the video stream during the WWDC keynote.
Aside from that, I’d say it was a bit of a yawn this year 😴
When going by bus, I always sit at the front, if I can. And now, when commuting by the DLR, I have a new front seat to go for.
I just realised I’ve moved to a different hemisphere! I’ve gone all the way from 0.05° W to 0.001° E, about 60 metres across the Prime Meridian!
The V&A East museum was a bit of a mixed bag for me, tbh, but I enjoyed the view from the roof terrace.
I’d forgotten quite how old old-style banks are. A standing order can’t go out on the weekend? Does a clerk need to print it out, take it to the accounts department, and hand it to another clerk? 🤨
This is my first commute by public transport in eight years. It takes just under 40 minutes door to door but I’m no longer getting my 10K steps per day.
Why are the doors inside UK flats self-closing, so you need to bend down and remove a doorstop whenever you actually want to close the door? 🤔
We sometimes end up at Hoko for dinner after work, and it always goes a bit like this:
1x Hong Kong Classic French Toast
1x With Peanut Butter
1x Scrambled Eggs Char Siu BBQ Pork Rice
1x Lychee Yakult Ice
1x Pineapple Ice
1x Swiss Wings (5pcs)
Note to self: Remember to go to the new flat, not the old one, after work tonight.
