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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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    I had a simple question: how to rescue a Windows hard disk to a new SSD?

    The answer is ddrescue from a Linux USB stick, but the Windows user wasnā€™t comfortable at the command line.

    But if you Google it, you get:

    • insanely detailed geek pages. These contain the right answer! But not the specific right answer.
    • AI slop.

    Eventually I just did it myself with ddrescue. But I got a first-hand experience of how fucking unusable search is now.

    Oh, and Google is now showing AI slop answers at the top of searches in the UK.

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      For people from the future:

      Iā€™m a fan of Clonezilla, which is a debian-derived live distro designed specifically to clone partitions as well as whole disks. If youā€™re comfortable with how Linux represents devices, itā€™s as close as you can get to training-wheels-included imaging for free.

      BIG WARNING: Be sure to write down the BitLocker key before you begin, or else itā€™ll be a bad time!

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      insanely detailed geek pages. These contain the right answer! But not the specific right answer.

      I had a windows problem once, so was looking through all that looking for an answer and saw somebody go ā€˜I need to save my data, which is very important, so how do I fix this problemā€™ and then they got a reply with ā€˜follow these steps with step X making sure they would delete their dataā€™. And this was before the whole era of AI slop so I fear how much worse it has gotten now.