Post B4FG6CPWF8KETEEd0K by domi@donotsta.re
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(DIR) Post #B4FG6CPWF8KETEEd0K by domi@donotsta.re
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judging online information quality based on site where it appeared: a comprehensive guide- "How To (...)" in the title, cookie banners, lots of side-information written in a way that wastes your time: SEO slop, don't bother. You might as well make a wild guess, same likelyhood it'll be correct- official docs for $x, autogenerated by a rube-goldberg machine and automagically pushed into whatever-pages by a fully-skidoodled, post-quantum CI pipeline: describes everything, except the exact fact you're looking for.- no HTTPS, tilde in the name, DNS with 4+ dots, likely hosted on some dusty uni server, white background with absolutely no CSS: one of the best resources on the subject. you question how it's even still online- site titled "Garry's blog", default wordpress favicon, last update either previous month or 12 years ago: golden. crystal-clear exposition, good examples and screenshots framed so well you don't even need arrows pointing places. likely used as a cheat-sheet daily by everyone in the community
(DIR) Post #B4FG85hIAr3sEERyS0 by domi@donotsta.re
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one like == one thank you to Garry π
(DIR) Post #B4FGvurMk3Y75zv8Vs by fossdd@chaos.social
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@domi thank you Gerry π
(DIR) Post #B4FIDXPkkXwNY1yIOu by hugo@chaos.social
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@domi Would be fun to have some sort of metric for this that weights into the search results.
(DIR) Post #B4FIEqkSLtd7nhHTPs by domi@donotsta.re
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@hugo if i ever end up making a search engine, something i donβt wish upon myself,
(DIR) Post #B4FOZN5UQOTpcEHtsu by snowyfox@deadinsi.de
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(DIR) Post #B4FOpv73gfMlmCudm4 by iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be
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@domi@donotsta.re real, we have the latter in biohacking, like this is the best guide about glow scars, it's used as reference by everyone, and it's really just someone's random WordPress blog that's barely updated https://bioduck.me/2025/06/03/glow-powder-cuttings/
(DIR) Post #B4FRFev0ig7SzKg6wC by irelephant@app.wafrn.net
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Shout-out to that one painters WordPress blog that perfectly explained how to clean up large amounts of spilled paint.
(DIR) Post #B4FqyMNyy5iDOZdpKa by eloy@hsnl.social
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@domi I like adding Garry's blog to Wikipedia in "external links" or "further reading" sections because those don't have the strong reliable source requirements"4. Sites that fail to meet criteria for reliable sources yet still contain information about the subject of the article from knowledgeable sources." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:ELMAYBE
(DIR) Post #B4HHqr4RtG8IAP6uQq by j-g00da@donotsta.re
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@domi some old forum post where someone describes your exact problem, it has a single reply "You didn't google hard enough: <link>", it's 404.
(DIR) Post #B4kHgJri7wQVs0xynA by spacefinner@chitter.xyz
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@hugo @domi https://marginalia-search.com/ is one I use sometimes that upweights raw HTML pages! Good for finding this sort of thing.