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

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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) 🌍

#Thunderbird #Community #Translation

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…

“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…