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  "textContent": "Other people have spoken about the blessings of email and IM, which exist beyond the web (fully for me, now that I have forsaken Discord). I could not have made any of my current friendships except online, for friends who share my esoteric interests are hundreds or thousands of kilometres away. It has also been well documented that the internet levels the playing field for autistic socialising. Processing delays and an inability to cope with body language and intonation mean little where replies are delayed and through text.\n\n\n> But what about the \"handful of websites\", which is the issue I'm really talking about? …the general user experience with using websites for information and research purposes has turned into absolute garbage. And that's just talking about the Cloudflar-ification of the web, not even discussing the fact that almost no one gets paid for writing anymore, and so your search results are going to be filled with AI hallucinatory slop. You almost have to use AI in order to dig past all the AI slop to find some data of value.\n\nHow do you research on the web?\nFor me, if we are dealing with an academic topic, it often begins with any of the several reference websites, including _Encyclopædia Britannica_ , the Free Dictionary (itself hosting many subject dictionaries and encyclopaedias), seeking out books on the subject through the Internet Archive, combing through Wikipedia citations as if it were a web portal. Specific subjects have got their own subject dictionaries: Routledge, Stanford and the IEP for philosophy, the EMS and Wolfram for mathematics, Spektrum (in German) for biology and geology. If we are dealing with anime, the VNDB, fan wikis and kindred sites are easy to consult. Over the years, I have built up various places to look into different subjects. Search engine miscarriages like the blight of Indian school revisions are relatively rare for me, and I know the kinds of topics which tend to provoke this rash, helping me avoid them. Online research is far easier than visiting several libraries or waiting for days to receive a book, needing to evaluate it only after it arrives and needing to take notes if I am to refer to the contents later.\n\n* * *",
  "title": "General Discussion • Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues",
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