Reply to Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content by Vincent Schmalbach

Selectivity is long overdue. Marginalia, Stract, and Teclis feel like a breath of fresh air for broad short-tail queries because they downrank or skip pages full of ads, trackers, scripts, and even SEO. However, Google’s selectivity can’t penalise such criteria as that would conflict with its ad business.

Google has a bias against new sites. This makes sense, given their spam potential. I disagree with your argument that a bias against new sites is a pivot away from Experience, Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (EEAT): it takes time for a website to become an authority and earn trust. If delayed indexing of new sites is wrong, then the problem lies with EEAT. I argue that EEAT is a good framework for an answer-focused engine, but a bad framework for a discovery- or surfing-focused engine like Marginalia or Wiby, respectively.

Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #Google #SearchEngines

Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - Vincent Schmalbach

Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google.

^{Vincent Schmalbach}

In-Process is out! Featuring all the news on NVDA 2024.3 Beta 4, the add-on update notification feature in NVDA 2024.3, thanks to Intopia (& all our corporate sponsors) and a look at jumping between paragraphs! Check it out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #ThankYou #Intopia #Navigation #Beta #Prerelease #FOSS #Software #blog

"Today, the time has come to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener."

No, you absolute shitheads, it's not just "the time." There's no immutable reason here other than your own disgraceful attention span.

If you create a link-shortening service, you owe it to the Internet not to just turn it off after a mere decade; even more so if you purport to have a mission "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

mastodon.cloud/@corbet@social.…

Jonathan Corbet

2024-07-18 22:08:06

Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

developers.googleblog.com/en/g…

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%…

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available

Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

^{developers.googleblog.com}

I once ran my own personal URL shortener but eventually killed it because it wasn't that useful, but I kept the links working, and in fact they still work _to this day_ because I converted them from a dynamic PHP web application to a little list of nginx URL redirects.

Google have comparatively infinite budget and can't figure out how to be a respectful web citizen.
social.kernel.org/objects/3912…

Jonathan Corbet

2024-07-18 22:08:06

Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

developers.googleblog.com/en/g…

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%…

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available

Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

^{developers.googleblog.com}

Proton Mail is now AI bullshit. Pass it on.

pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/18/pro…

Please boost.

Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’

If an organization runs a survey in 2024 on whether it should get into AI, then they’ve already bodged an LLM into the system and they’re seeing if they can get away with it. Proton Mail is a priva…

^{Pivot to AI}

My new narrated audio fiction project An Invisible Sun launches on August 1st!

Go to invisiblesunpod.com to hear the teaser, subscribe on your fav pod app, and get more information!

But if you can't wait, members of my Patreon can hear the episodes early and ad-free! patreon.com/wkeithtims

I hope you'll listen!

#audiodrama #audiofiction #fiction #podcast #fictionpodcast #sff #specfic #writingcommunity #writing #indie

Congratulations to our newest NVDA Certified Expert, Victor-Daniel Dima!

If you'd like to become an NVDA Certified Expert, you can sit the exam for FREE here: certification.nvaccess.org/

(There is a cost to receive the certificate, with all money helping keep NVDA free for all!)

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Certification #Qualification #Study #AmStudying #Exam #Leadership #Technology

The Biden/Harris administration has released a tool — a first-of-its-kind software in partnership with the Department of Energy and HHS — that connects families to solar energy through the HHS' Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

Those enrolled in the program can see significant electricity bill savings, aligned with the National Community Solar Partnership goal of 20% in average household savings — the equivalent of $370 yearly per household.

#Solar
energy.gov/communitysolar/clea…

"The EU’s #NGI programme has supported free, open source software for years. But now a silent death seems to be looming: An internal document suggests that financing may soon end. Developers are surprised and call for the programme’s survival."

netzpolitik.org/2024/next-gene…

#softwarefreedom

Next Generation Internet: EU apparently set to end open source programme

The EU’s Next Generation Internet programme has supported free, open source software for years. But now a silent death seems to be looming: An internal document suggests that financing may soon end.

^{netzpolitik.org}

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of decentralized blockchain Ethereum, has issued a warning to his fellow tech leaders against choosing a candidate purely based on whether they claim to be “pro-crypto.”

While he didn’t name any candidate specifically, his warning comes just one day after prominent venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz announced their support for Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

“In a blog post, Buterin said it’s more important to scrutinize a candidate’s broader policies to ensure they support cryptocurrency’s underlying goals, including internationalism and protection for private communications,” reports @Techcrunch. Here’s more.

flip.it/u1UPFX

#Crypto #SiliconValley #Ethereum #Trump #2024Election

Oh nice! Firefox translation will now* translate all relevant HTML attributes, e.g. title, aria-label, aria-description and more : bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

Thanks @gregtatum !

* this landed a few hours ago, will be in next @FirefoxNightly and hopefully should be available for all in Firefox 130

Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

developers.googleblog.com/en/g…

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%…

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available

Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

^{developers.googleblog.com}

Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

Link: github.com/veggiedefender/open…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

GitHub - veggiedefender/open-and-shut: Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut - veggiedefender/open-and-shut

^GitHub

With many people getting COVID from the summer surge, a reminder that the CDC's isolation guidelines are inadequate.

CDC shortened their isolation guidelines, not because of a change in the science, but in response to political pressure to keep people working even if they are sick.

Science shows most people are infectious for 10+ days; it's best to isolate until you test negative on multiple tests. If you can't stay home the whole time, wear an N95 mask to stop the virus spreading to others.

Hola a la comunidad #Celiaca y #SinGluten el grandioso @pietervdvn ha creado en #MapComplete un tema (mapa) específicamente para vosotros, esto es muy importante ya que este mapa es GRATUITO, LIBRE y editable por cualquier persona, haciéndolo una fuente de conocimiento de TODOS y para todos.

Se acabaron los mapas de google maps que solo conocen los dueños y a quienes se lo comparten.
Si tienes una lista o mapa de tus sitios favoritos añadelos!

Puedes visitarlo aqui:
mapcomplete.org/glutenfree

Glutenfree

A crowdsourced map with glutenfree items

^{mapcomplete.org}

Would you believe it's been a whole year since I published the final version of my content, consent, and safety toolbox for tabletop roleplaying games (and other purposes), the Script Change RPG Toolbox?

buff.ly/3zKrEvw
buff.ly/467iuW5

Did you know that it remains Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution licensed, free to download with an option to donate, filled with a variety of tools and new resources for play, and supplemented by emojis for Discord and both playing & tarot cards?

All The Technology Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Predicted Correctly

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the most inventive and whacky sci-fi properties around, and it's predicted quite a few real-world technologies. #press

slashgear.com/1620490/hitchhik…

All The Technology Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Predicted Correctly

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the most inventive and whacky sci-fi properties around, and it's predicted quite a few real-world technologies.

^{Nathan P. Gibson (SlashGear)}

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue

CALLY: [V.O. scream] Blake.
[Space. Exterior. A freight ship called Scorpio is in flight. Scorpio interior: flight deck. A blonde man is the only occupant of the flight deck. His name is Dorian. He bends over to check something on the ship's instruments. Finished, he moves around the flight deck.]

blake.torpidity.net/m/401/41 B7B4

I've tagged version 0.0.1 of #libcmatrix - a #matrix client library.

The project was initiated and developed by
Sadiq (gitlab.gnome.org/pksadiq) in order to add Matrix support to chatty (gitlab.gnome.org/World/Chatty) for @purism

It has been a bit 😴 over the past months but my recent interest in #unifiedpush derailed me and I had a look at the code base, cleaned up minor things and figured it might make sense to tag a release so here we go: source.puri.sm/Librem5/libcmat…

Thanks @devrtz for the reviews!

World / Chatty · GitLab

SMS/MMS, Matrix and (optionally) XMPP messaging via ModemManager, mmsd-tng, libcmatrix and libpurple

^GitLab

Prior to C23, the C standard does not specify an underlying type for enumerations other than that it be compatible with int, which is itself unspecified beyond being a signed number of no less than 16 bits in size.

C23 gives us the ability to actually specify the underlying type of an enum, which makes bit-flag enums much more portable, among other things. This is a standardization of existing common compiler extensions, of course. Clang and GCC have had it for years.

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 14 updated and 1 added apps:

* Fossify Keyboard brings your Fossify Collection up to 11 apps! ( 🇩🇪 Prosit!)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Permissions, please?

For #Workbench by @sonny & friends

#GNOME #Inkscape #Illustration #AppIllustration

Current City is back!

This app helps you log your travels, see the photos you’ve taken in each place, and find information about your current location.

Congratulations Taylor Arndt for releasing your first app into the App Store!

apps.apple.com/us/app/current-…

‎Current City

‎Current City is an app developed by Techopolis Online Solutions, LLC to log your travels. It helps users determine their current city and state. It is particularly useful for travelers who need quick and precise information about their location.

^{App Store}