Years ago I worked inside Akismet - https://akismet.com - which is an Automattic product.

Akismet, along with user chosen comment moderated lists in 'Comments > Discussion' would not publish certain comment content.

For example, you put 'bad' in to your moderation list and if someone wrote 'badger' your comment was moderated, and probably deleted.

Various sites had "Copy this Bad Words List"

There was/is a medication called cialis

Lots of spam - email, web, comment, used those 6 letters

There was a HUGE amount of comments caught that used socialist, socialism in the US elections.

Where on earth do you get 'a hint of Sharia Law' from?

Why are you adding something not mentioned to steer the conversation?

They're just being racist.

First happened upon NFS around 2005. I have long admired their terms, their FAQ, the whole shebang. Currently have two sites hosted with them for the sole reason that they are not EIG and I feel confident that were the targets of those two sites (and they are not offensive, just opinionated) to complain to NFS that my sites would not be affected in any way. For years now that has proved true.

I am an ordained Dudeist priest

You don't need the nonsense from the url linked above

Just abide

https://dudeism.com/

I saw this in my feed reader this morning and my first thought was "How do you get a Urinary Tract Infection in an OS?"

Same here, at first I thought Gruber was using it ironically since he doesn't seem very fond of his own creation. But no, it really is "UTI."

A dirty pipe

Nothing - it's a joke.

For the answer, scroll down here - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Their catalogue is well worth buying.

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/zachtronics

"Eliza" is a bit unusual for Zachtronics as it's not a programming/puzzle game but a visual novel. But it's excellent and I think it's one of their most under-appreciated games. It's well-written, well-acted, and very prescient. Highly recommended!

I'm good friends with the writer of Eliza. If you enjoyed it, you might like his novel.

https://matthewseiji.com/process

It's one of my favorite visual novels and is so underappreciated.

Maybe it's because (unlike others in the VN space) it totally eschews unusual settings, gimmicks, or flashy set pieces to sell itself... I only bought it because I liked the tidbits of story in Shenzhen and Infinifactory, by the same author. Every part of it is unbelievably strong though.

I tried to replay Eliza this past winter after having played it and loved it when it came out. But I couldn't get past the start of the game because not only is it so dark, BUT SO MUCH OF IT CAME TRUE!

Eliza is one of the only games that I enjoyed so much that I sent fan mail when it came out — it’s nothing that a standard Zachtronics game but it stands alone as an excellent visual novel.

The in-game phone apps that just show a looping pixel art city scene with haunting ambient music are mesmerizing, even moreso than the beautiful solitaire game.

I think about this game often

i loved playing ShenzhenIO! So much so that i ended up buying and registering the domain of the fictitious company you were hired by in the game. That domain redirects to Seam now

I have 9000+ games on Steam and many others on EA, Ubisoft etc. Value is zero.

I recently catalogued and valued my physical game collection across multiple consoles. Value is over £10,000 and that value will only go up as time passes.

Why is this better than using the !g DDG bang after the initial search?

it's not, at all

this is the entirety of what this extension does, from its code:

    // Extract the search query from the DuckDuckGo URL
    const url = new URL(tab.url);
    const searchQuery = url.searchParams.get('q');
    
    if (searchQuery) {
      // Create the Google search URL
      const googleUrl = `https://www.google.com/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(searchQuery)}`;

which is identical to what appending !g to a DDG query does

Its just convenience. Its a couple of keystrokes vs a mouse click while you are scrolling