I think every single author needs to put a tip jar on their website and we can toss them some extra. (short term solution)

But yeah- the industry needs a major revamp.

Yeah- I got an email from him asking for money today and it pissed me right the hell off.

Free is 100/mo & then pay $5 for up to 300 searches/mo. The last 2 months I've hit 300 just one day before. I've made a small shift to making sure I enter the website I'm going for instead of wasting a search on it. Paying by the year is even cheaper, but I wanted to do month by month for a trial.

I made two changes (also pls uninstall chrome- it has ears) & my browsers now: Brave & Vivaldi.

Kagi search engine is like Google 20 y ago. There is a free version; I pay $5/ mo. GLADLY

Query and get limited, ACCURATE answers. No AI. No sponsored posts. It's heaven. HEAVEN. Saves me so much time.

I'm more worried about AI inability to say, "I don't know" and to blindly fuck up someone's entire return with unfounded and insistent confidence. I refuse to call them hallucinations. It's a machine that makes unforced errors and WILL NOT TELL THE USER

Do they not know this isn't working anywhere else and certainly not for complex things???.

Stop with this transphobic BS

This post made my little geek heart so happy.

I'm always astonished by people selling to them, by now people should know they will set your company and employees on absolute fire

So satisfying!!