{"id":3476,"date":"2018-01-24T21:30:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T21:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2018-01-24T21:31:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T21:31:19","slug":"lmgtfy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=3476","title":{"rendered":"LMGTFY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A minor intertubes annoyance of mine.<\/p>\n<p>I use <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/\">Google Maps<\/a> quite a bit. Not massively for sat-nav, as I&#8217;m a terrible luddite for navigation, and don&#8217;t have a suitable car holder, but for finding pubs, bars, restaurants, stations, shops etc if walking. I&#8217;ll use the reviews as a guide, and I contribute back to it as well: I&#8217;ll edit places I know are wrong, I&#8217;ve added photos of opening times that Google can scan and publish automagically. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, it&#8217;s pretty cool. Yes, you&#8217;re dealing with a big evil tech firm, and they&#8217;re getting a lot of data for free, but it&#8217;s useful for me, and the contributions may be useful (they&#8217;d be even better if it would let me add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1795\">The Jigger&#8217;s Whistle<\/a>, but meh).<\/p>\n<p>One thing, though, is troubling me. Nagging away at me like an untraceable rattle in the dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>Questions. Questions asked by people too damn lazy and\/or stupid to do even the most basic research on the computer they are in front of or holding in their hand. The maps app on my phone will occasionally prompt me about a place it knows I have been and say <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSomeone has a question about [place], can you help?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and like a twat, I&#8217;ll view the question, because it&#8217;s good to help.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a typical example, with a fairly succinct answer from another contributor. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3477\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/Screenshot_20180124-211019.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/Screenshot_20180124-211019-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/Screenshot_20180124-211019-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/Screenshot_20180124-211019-768x1365.png 768w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/Screenshot_20180124-211019-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/Screenshot_20180124-211019.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FFS. Let me Google that for you.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Really? Not even a full sentence, and the answer should be pretty fucking easy <em>with the fucking Internet in front of you<\/em>, shouldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Looks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lmgtfy.com\/?q=grand+theatre+wolverhampton+opening+times\">pretty easy to me<\/a>. Fuckwits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A minor intertubes annoyance of mine. I use Google Maps quite a bit. Not massively for sat-nav, as I&#8217;m a terrible luddite for navigation, and don&#8217;t have a suitable car holder, but for finding pubs, bars, restaurants, stations, shops etc if walking. I&#8217;ll use the reviews as a guide, and I contribute back to it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=3476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LMGTFY<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-rants","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}