"While full of trash & fake news, the Internet is not dead. You must search like a chaotic flea market."

I paraphrased my title from this exact line: "Because while it may be full of trash and fake news, the Internet is not dead. You just need to know how to search, like in a chaotic flea market." That I read in this Blogpost: https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/19/what-if-i-were-twenty-again-thoughts-on-my-46th-birthday/ I like analogy a lot, seems accurate. One can easily spend 1 or even 3 hours wandering around a flea-market, and though you might see a few interesting things, but even those may well be nothing you would not want to keep nor remember. Most things would even be a detriment to acquire. But then you find one or several things you really need or want or that even help you, often things you could not get anywhere else, and certainly not at that price, and those makes the entire trip worth it and even pleasant. The internet certainly is chaotic. But just like almost every flea market I visited various times, you can see through and mitigate that chaos. At a certain point you…