nixCraft,
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.

nixCraft,
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

OpenAI, Mircosoft, and Google together kill the open web. Thousands of independent blogs and forums are now nowhere in search engines or pushed back to page two to support their AI and partnerships with Reddit, StackOverflow, and more. Many humans contributed to these sites hoping to build a knowledge base for humanity, but now greedy people like Sama and OpenAI are taking over everything.

Pajo_16,
@Pajo_16@mastodon.cloud avatar

@nixCraft Is there any way to find these sites? You are correct in that they disappeared but there must be a way to find them. Hopefully 🤞

zleap,
@zleap@qoto.org avatar

@Pajo_16 @nixCraft

If people find them, perhaps post links here.

jeruyyap,
@jeruyyap@hachyderm.io avatar

@Pajo_16 @nixCraft

If you're looking for blogs and other personal sites I recommend bookmarking these search engines:

Would also recommend checking out this very excellent piece as well for alternative search options: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

tezoatlipoca,
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to avatar

@jeruyyap @Pajo_16 @nixCraft Support the micro-brew search engines that are trying to make Search Engines Not Suck Again!

(new slogan )

funbaker,
@funbaker@chaos.social avatar

@nixCraft so... renting a garage and building a new search engine from second hand pc's?

hllizi,
@hllizi@hespere.de avatar

@nixCraft now is the time where always having been to lazy to get seriously involved anywhere pays off, in a weird way.

bjn,
@bjn@mstdn.social avatar

@nixCraft Oh FFS. Can sites please just stop selling stuff they didn’t create to these grifters.

AlexanderESmith,
@AlexanderESmith@c.im avatar

@nixCraft

No no no, you're doing it all wrong. What we need to do is come together as a community and contribute as much as we can to StackOverflow, all all of its partner sites.

Contribute by;

  • Posting questions that don't make sense, even grammatically
  • Selecting only the most "correct" answers. They need to meander, have lots of unverifiable opinions, and contain as many external links as possible.
  • Replying with batshit excellent answers that are off topic, offensive, and frequently change topics mid-sentence.
  • New words! Really give those models something to learn on by giving them all the greatest new words, like Solutionate, Fixxor, Correctimation, and Incorrectage!
  • Downvoting anything with relevant data. We don't need any of that pesky "truth" gumming up the paste for our copy/pasting into production code/servers.

Don't waste all your hard earned rep by deleting your account. Use those dusty old things for a new, exciting LLM project!

Lets all enhancigrade StackOverflow together!

LukasBrausch,
@LukasBrausch@mastodontech.de avatar

@nixCraft Wow! Doesn't this mean that the company will now die a slow death once all their databases have been incorporated into ? On the one hand, this seems like a really stupid move, but on the other hand, I reckon that this deal is actually the only real choice they have left, as all their data has probably already been crawled by the best before. At least they can gain a bit of money from in the short term before becoming completely obsolete in a few months to years. 😢

lordmatt,
@lordmatt@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft Or, if you are feeling mischievous, get a group of friends together and invent a nonsense programming language and then ask and answer questions about it that sound right but are utter boffo.

zanagb,
@zanagb@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft Well, this poses a hard question. If you don't want to use or help the AI industrial complex, you got nowhere to look specific ways to implement X, and nowhere to ask why Y is happening. You are basically SOL. Memorizing the entire documentation for a language may not even help figuring why doing A causes B to happen.

So I guess we've got to pour one for all the novice and future programmers who have just been shafted hard.

hunterhacker,

@nixCraft I never expected to get paid for my SO answers. I wrote them so freeloading developers could freeload on me. I always expected SO as a site would make a few bucks to run the show. My answers were my donation to the universe. What’s the problem here again?

val_int1,
@val_int1@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft ChatGPT after the partnership:
User: hey, could you write a python program to do X?
ChatGPT: 𝚂𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚢, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚍𝚞𝚙𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝 "𝙲𝚊𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚊 𝙲++ 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚖 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚘 𝚈", 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛, 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚕𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚍.

mrcompletely,
@mrcompletely@heads.social avatar

@nixCraft OR - just hear me out -

change all your answers to be plausible sounding but totally, destructively wrong?

and change your profile to something really surreal just for fun?

but mostly, corrupt their knowledge base

rexi,
@rexi@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft

remind me what the humans were collecting in this "collective knowledge"

eerongal,
@eerongal@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft cant wait for chatGPT to start answering "thats a stupid question, closed as a duplicate" to all programming questions.

xorgrox,
@xorgrox@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft By deleting posts you making the AI the only source. They will just sell you the same stuff in this case.

gimulnautti,
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green avatar

@nixCraft I think you should rather make them pay you for your efforts, since they’re making money out of it. I don’t AI tools are bad in itself. It’s that they don’t license the corpus they’re training on that’s wrong.

sardo,
@sardo@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft huh 🤔 Removing account doesn’t remove questions nor answers. This is insane!

greencactus,
@greencactus@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft RIP. Nice to have been there...

sutekh,

Enshitification central

depereo,
@depereo@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft I'm excited for all of these nonsense vortices to start answering 'duplicate question, closed' to any query.

Alb_,
@Alb_@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft

What should have been done is :

  1. keeping SO as is. Humans' contribution only.

  2. Build another entity, called for example "SO AI", from scratch with both human and non human posts and works and interactions, knowing perfectly who is doing what. What's more this could end up developing uncommon and unexpected results.

This was the right way.

Get in touch SO, i'll give you some salutary advices!

thejikz,
@thejikz@mastodon.social avatar
stux,
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

@nixCraft another one bites the dust..

chris_hayes,
@chris_hayes@fosstodon.org avatar

@nixCraft How it started: How it's going:

SenseException,
@SenseException@phpc.social avatar

@nixCraft AI is going to use the preferred answer in Stack Overflow? Be afraid, be very afraid.

250h,

@nixCraft This is how capital and even the world work. Some people just build the platform, and everything else is waiting for most people to build.

dozymoe,
@dozymoe@mastodon.social avatar

@nixCraft are they hosted in Microsoft datacenters?

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