Off topic - on Voyager on iOS, and the thumbnail is upside-down? Anybody else?
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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Same on Voyager on Android
Same on eternity
Could be that the shittier sites are using tricks to make people hang around them as long as possible?
Also, sites that are 'strange and a bit obscure' are probably more likely to require us to take what they report with more grains of salt. They're likely to have fewer visitors who can call BS on stuff.
I found a Pi Hole blocklist that filters out known ai slop websites but even then they're still clogging up my DDG result. Such a pain.
Also: Phantasy Star is great! Have you played the Sega Ages release? It adds some really cool stuff to make it more playable.
Hell yeah the Sega Ages version is the definitive way to play. The built in dungeon map is a must if you don't want to lose your mind having to manually map it out yourself. I never knew the FM chip had such a drastic improvement to the soundtrack before this version came out. Add on the scan line filter and it's retro gaming bliss.
If someone says AI is reliable ask them to ask AI who they are, like we used to Google ourselves. It will spit out some bullshit for sure (except if your friend is famous, but maybe even in that case).
Insert 'always has been meme'
Insert last part of the page:
And if your answer is to just say "Um, Nicole, you could never trust the internet, people could tell lies or even just honest mistakes about topics, you do it all the time", please try to understand the point I'm trying to make beyond just a reading of the headline.
I read the whole thing and I wasn't 100% what the point was beyond the title. I still feel like responding with "it always has been."
I guess it's that they like to give new websites she finds the benefit of the doubt for the off chance that she might gain new knowledge about a subject, but:
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people perpetuate misinformation to make a quick buck off as revenue
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LLMs make the problem even worse
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they feel powerless to do anything about it
None of which is an excitingly new revelation if you have been paying attention for the last decade or so.
But as someone looking for a copy of Phantasy Star, I found out there's a reprint of it on Genesis thanks to this blog, so that's good! Now to see if they're telling the truth...
It's an older meme sir, but it checks out.
Wow. I got a few links deep.
I've just recently told my family that modern tech is pushing me to become a Luddite.
And here’s a thing about me. I want to trust new websites. I have a bias towards clicking on articles from sites I don’t know, because to be quite honest, I’ve read the TCRF page on Phantasy Star a thousand times. How else do you learn something new?
To some extent, I think that this is a solveable problem in terms of just weighting domain age and reputation more highly in search engines (and maybe in LLM training stuff).
The problem is that then you wind up with a situation where it's hard for new media sources to compete with established incumbents, because the incumbents have all that reputation and new entrants have to build theirs, and new entrants get deprioritized by search engines.
I think that maybe there's an argument that you could also provide a couple of user-configurable parameters on search engines to permit not deprioritizing newer sites and the like.
Another issue is that reputation can be bought and sold. This is not new. For example, you can buy a reputatable, established news source and then change its content to be less reputable but promote a message that you want. That will, over time, burn its credibility, but as long as the return you get is worth what you've spent...shrugs