You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.
I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.
(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).
#InternetSearch #degoogle #websearch
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.DuckDuckGo
Every time you buy a Chinese electric EV it makes baby Doug Ford cry.
Go ahead and buy a Chinese electric EV.
Making your list of @fosdem talks to try and get into/watch online? We are too! Be sure you don't miss @bogo and his talk, "What translating Thunderbird taught me," Sunday 1 February at 14:50 in the Translations dev room (K.3.401) 🌍
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“In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.”
musically.com/2026/01/15/5-1tn…
Music-biz number-cruncher Luminate has published its year-end report for 2025, with plenty of stats for the industry to chew over.Stuart Dredge (Music Ally)
krúpy a kadečo z prasaťa.
edit: s bramborami taky dobrý ale podľa mňa naj s chlebom a kyslou uhorkou hh
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Huh, that's interesting. It always used to skip back to the beginning for me.
I have recently figured out that I can somehow still get a student YT premium subscription through my employee account, because SheerID apparently doesn't check permissions for us properly, so that's my workaround now.
The future of software development is Gemini adding and removing the "status/needs-triage" tag from an issue on GitHub 5,000 times.
Gemini is made by Google, a company once famous for incredibly high quality software engineering.
github.com/google-gemini/gemin…
What would you like to be added? This is feature request - someone can point it as bug as well but I will not. Ask / Request 👉🏽 Implement exit and quit as standard commands with a simple confirmati...pm-bhatt (GitHub)
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Oh, good. It's driving up spinning rust prices too.
Hard drive prices are spiking because of "ai." Prices have jumped 46% on average since September. The 24TB Seagate BarraCuda used to be $239 on sale, but it's now sitting at $500.Terminal Tilt (Climate Justice Social)
Random quick+dirty scripts I want to share. Contribute to hannob/scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
#Chromium embedders: imagine full extensions support, on your lightweight //content-only product. No more complex rebasings or //chrome hacks! Just clean APIs without chrome::Profile. Shin, from @igalia , has been working on this.
From an #Android prototype to a demo in the @WolvicXR browser, landing upstream in //extensions. A path to real extensions on TVs, cars, and custom #browsers. Read more in her new blog post! ✍ blogs.igalia.com/mshin/2026/01…
bei uns hieß das eine ganze Weile lang, dass das Paket dann innerhalb der nächsten 10 minuten ankommt. Verstanden hab ich das auch nie. 🤷♀️
Und mittlerweile geht das tracking dann glaube ich auch für die letzten 10 minuten hier.
God bless people who do stuff like getting in touch with the US patent office and putting the source code for the 1998 furby on archive.org
archive.org/details/furby-sour…
The source code of the firmware used in the 1998 Furby.The patent wrapper containing it was obtained and scanned by Sean Riddle (seanriddle.com).Internet Archive
Supposedly a IBM board member once said there's a market for maybe 5 computers worldwide.
Maybe he was just very good at making predictions.
Five computers. MS, Amazon, Google, Apple, Oracle.
To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
passo.uno/letter-those-who-fir…
Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical writing positions last year because of AI.passo.uno
I'm happy to have some back & forth, receive new information from people, get called out if I'm fucking up, etc.
But I do not fucking need jerks who just want to cause problems wasting the energy which I could spend on good, important conversations.
some of these graphs are truly helpful to us, some of them I think show "interesting stuff" that we can extract from an old well maintained source code written in C even though that data might not really help us.
Then there is a subset of graphs that are mostly silly and they are there simply because I'm obsessed with graphs.
Just 6 graphs left to the big 100. Isn't that what all projects aim for?
Updated daily here:
curl.se/dashboard.html
Oh goody, a LinkedIn connection request with a message!
Let’s break this down:
> …vc backed…
Focused on quarterly profits / RoI instead of outcomes.
> …invite-only…
NDAs and other gag agreements.
> …openAI browser…
Chromium that begs authors for ARIA to parse content.
> …seeing promising results…
Which aren’t genuine results.
> …goal is 100% WCAG testing…
Ah, snake oil.
> …with high capture rates.
Sales targets, not WCAG coverage.
They responded. So I responded:
Because WCAG cannot be automated to 100%:
karlgroves.com/web-accessibili…
Automated tools have demonstrated that for years:
adrianroselli.com/2023/01/comp…
Every time someone claims higher, it's been a lie:
adrianroselli.com/2025/03/be-w…
Or otherwise based on bad math:
adrianroselli.com/2022/07/what…
Another vendor was fined by the FTC for claiming full coverage:
adrianroselli.com/2025/01/ftc-…
[…]
The Short Version Read this if you’re disinclined to read the entire list of specific WCAG Success Criterion and look at how each can be tested.Karl Groves (karlgroves.com)
I made a custom Firefox icon you can actually use as the app icon now! Also I did a little interview with the folks over at Mozilla about it, check it out :)
blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/mo…
Ruud is known for the charming, joyful characters in his comic series heyheymomo, and he brings that same energy to this design. He originally created the artwork as a quick five-minute doodle for fun.Jenifer Boscacci (The Mozilla Blog)
Kiinnostava uusi avaus:
Äänel on tekeillä oleva kirjailijoiden omistama äänikirja-alusta, jossa on äänikirjoja, jotka eivät ole tarjolla muualla, jossa lukijat ostavat kirjan eivätkä kuunteluaikaa ja joka tarjoaa tekijöille asianmukaisen ja oikeasuhtaisen korvauksen työstään, kuten uusi tekijänoikeuslaki vaatii.
Seuraan tätä suurella kiinnostuksella! Toivottavasti se myös kirittää muita äänikirja-alustoja kohtelemaan kirjailijoita paremmin.
"#JBILibrary—the nearly century-old organization dedicated to ensuring that people who are #blind, have #lowvision, or have #print #disabilities can fully participate in #Jewish life—is inviting individuals, families, teens and community groups to get involved in its new #Volunteer Ambassador Program designed to expand access to Jewish #learning and #culture."
We know what a Friday needs to get good and I'm happy I can deliver it: a new graph.
#if density in curl source code over time. Fascinatingly static through the years counted per 1000 lines of code.
Crap, you answered my earlier question already.
Serves me right for reading my timeline backwards!
A thought that popped into my head when I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t get back to sleep…
Imagine that AI/LLM tools were being marketed to workers as a way to do the same work more quickly and work fewer hours without telling their employers.
“Use ChatGPT to write your TPS reports, go home at lunchtime. Spend more time with your kids!” “Use Claude to write your code, turn 60-hour weeks into four-day weekends!” “Collect two paychecks by using AI! You can hold two jobs without the boss knowing the difference!”
Imagine if AI/LLM tools were not shareholder catnip, but a grassroots movement of tooling that workers were sharing with each other to work less. Same quality of output, but instead of being pushed top-down, being adopted to empower people to work less and “cheat” employers.
Imagine if unions were arguing for the right of workers to use LLMs as labor saving devices, instead of trying to protect members from their damage.
CEOs would be screaming bloody murder. There’d be an overnight industry in AI-detection tools and immediate bans on AI in the workplace. Instead of Microsoft CoPilot 365, Satya would be out promoting Microsoft SlopGuard - add ons that detect LLM tools running on Windows and prevent AI scrapers from harvesting your company’s valuable content for training.
The media would be running horror stories about the terrible trend of workers getting the same pay for working less, and the awful quality of LLM output. Maybe they’d still call them “hallucinations,” but it’d be in the terrified tone of 80s anti-drug PSAs.
What I’m trying to say in my sleep-deprived state is that you shouldn’t ignore the intent and ill effects of these tools. If they were good for you, shareholders would hate them.
You should understand that they’re anti-worker and anti-human. TPTB would be fighting them tooth and nail if their benefits were reversed. It doesn’t matter how good they get, or how interesting they are: the ultimate purpose of the industry behind them is to create less demand for labor and aggregate more wealth in fewer hands.
Unless you happen to be in a very very small club of ultra-wealthy tech bros, they’re not for you, they’re against you. #AI #LLMs #claude #chatgpt
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