clearleaf (u/clearleaf)

clearleaf commented on Microslop Manifesto microslop.com/... · Posted by u/gostsamo

leshenka · 13 days ago

At least they're being honest about the counter in their source:

    // Starting value (high number to suggest ongoing problem)
    let currentCount = 8_472_000;

clearleaf · 13 days ago

What am I even supposed to think "gallons of slop" means? Funny that this is both fake and meaningless. OP if you're reading this, this garbage was the worst possible way you could have made the point.

clearleaf commented on Setting up phones is a nightmare joelchrono.xyz/blog/setti... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap

monooso · 14 days ago

A Samsung phone. I've owned several (not Samsung) Android phones, and have never had to deal with such nonsense.

clearleaf · 14 days ago

Samsung phones are the most bloated pieces of shit I have ever seen. Mine came with an app just to view the msn.com web site and it couldn't be uninstalled. You have google and samsung in a tug of war over every single thing the phone does. I thought my home button was breaking because of how unresponsive it was, but it turned out it just waits for a sequence to trigger such and such unwanted AI assistant or whatever the hell. It's a crapshoot whether you accidentally launch google assistant or bixby or some other crap service you never even heard of. There are touchwiz sound effects that I hear in public and to this day it sends a chill down my spine because it brings me back to so much miserable time spent with that abomination of electronics.

clearleaf commented on Setting up phones is a nightmare joelchrono.xyz/blog/setti... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap

t0bia_s · 14 days ago

that isn't all that different from getting a Pixel.

Paradox is, that with Pixel device you can get most freedom and security togather. Installation of GrapheneOS is easiest custom ROM installation that could possibly be.

clearleaf · 14 days ago

Unless you live in a place where your phone needs to be a regional variant and there are no custom roms that support it.

clearleaf commented on Dead Internet Theory kudmitry.com/articles/dea... · Posted by u/skwee357

imglorp · 2 months ago

> allow even more bots to increase traffic which drives up ad revenue

Isn't that just fraud?

clearleaf · 2 months ago

Yes registering fake views is fraud against ad networks. Ad networks love it though because they need those fake clicks to defraud advertisers in turn. Paying to have ads viewed by bots is just paying to have electricity and compute resources burned for no reason. Eventually the wrong person will find out about this and I think that's why Google's been acting like there's no tomorrow.

clearleaf commented on Dead Internet Theory kudmitry.com/articles/dea... · Posted by u/skwee357

lizknope · 2 months ago

Bots have ruined reddit but that is what the owners wanted.

The API protest in 2023 took away tools from moderators. I noticed increased bot activity after that.

The IPO in 2024 means that they need to increase revenue to justify the stock price. So they allow even more bots to increase traffic which drives up ad revenue. I think they purposely make the search engine bad to encourage people to make more posts which increases page views and ad revenue. If it was easy to find an answer then they would get less money.

At this point I think reddit themselves are creating the bots. The posts and questions are so repetitive. I've unsubscribed to a bunch of subs because of this.

clearleaf · 2 months ago

It's been really sad to see reddit go like this because it was pretty much the last bastion of the human internet. I hated reddit back in the day but later got into it for that reason. It's why all our web searches turned into "cake recipe reddit." But boy did they throw it in the garbage fast. One of their new features is you can read AI generated questions with AI generated answers. What could the purpose of that possibly be? We still have the old posts... for the most part (a lot of answers were purged during the protest) but what's left of it is also slipping away fast for various reasons. Maybe I'll try to get back into gemini protocol or something.

clearleaf commented on Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video] youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTO... · Posted by u/joelkesler

porkbrain · 3 months ago

Text selection used to be frustrating on mobile for me too until Google fixed it with OCR. I get to just hold a button briefly and then can immediately select an area of the screen to scan text from, with a consistent UX. Like a screenshot but for text.

clearleaf · 3 months ago

This is such an indictment of modern technology. No offense is meant to you for doing what works for you, but it is buck wild that this is the "fix" they've come up with. As somebody learning about this for the first time it sounds equivalent to a world where screenshotting became really hard so people started taking photos of their screen so they could screenshot the photo. How could such a fundamental aspect of using a computer become so ridiculous? It's like satire.

clearleaf commented on Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? · Posted by u/embedding-shape

clearleaf · 3 months ago

I don't see the point of publishing any AI generated content. If I want AIs opinion on something I can ask it. If I want an AI image I can generate it. I've never found it helpful to have someone else's ai output lying around.

clearleaf commented on Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt

LordGrey · 3 months ago

Hilarious: I looked at first two examples on the page, showing a menu and contextual menu, and I saw no problem. Icons? What icons?

That's when I realized that, much like advertisements on a web page, my brain had utterly filtered them out.

clearleaf · 3 months ago

My brain first started doing this with online ads as well.

The habit has adapted and evolved very strongly with the amount of exercise it gets from UIs, textbooks, signage, and basically every other visual medium possible these days. It has actually become a problem with how often I overlook important information due to it being situated in a "nothing useful will ever be here" zone. But it's difficult to consciously control that instinct when it's correct 99.999% of the time.

clearleaf commented on Hachi: An Image Search Engine eagledot.xyz/hachi.md.htm... · Posted by u/warangal

mikepurvis · 3 months ago

“Windows and Mac have indexed keyword search across files, but the interface feels primitive.”

The functionality is further obscured when (at least on windows) the local files results are intermingled with results from afar, which I guess are Bing.

clearleaf · 3 months ago

For me it just doesn't work at all. I don't know why but every windows instance I've used since Win7 has not been able to find files even with the exact filename supplied. I don't disable the indexer. I can see it using CPU and disk resources but it just doesn't find anything relevant when I search. When I instead use Search Everything on Windows it works perfectly.

clearleaf commented on Ask HN: What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments? · Posted by u/GaryBluto

clearleaf · 4 months ago

I think that due to how sophisticated anti-bot measures have gotten, bots now go through a "life cycle." An engagement bot spends the first phase of it's life building up an innocent and legitimate looking history. It does this by blending into the noise with innocuous and pointless comments that you'd never take a second glance at, and definitely not report or flag. Then when the account has aged and is in good enough standing, metamorphosis to the adult stage occurs, and the bot starts posting the kind of blatant spam that you'd think would be automatically ban filtered, but somehow isn't. These bot farmers are quite literally farming bots like vegetables and selling them when they've ripened.

I am very confident that this is the case in YouTube comments, where most people find they can not use violent words like "kill" or "genocide" when discussing war, but somehow there are bots posting uncensored racial slurs.