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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@cleantext" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cleantext</span></a></span> I recommend checking out <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nixCraft</span></a></span> to get uo to speed...</p><p>Otherwise you can find sites like <a href="https://linux.die.net" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">linux.die.net</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> which can be set as search parameter in like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://monocles.social/@monocles" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>monocles</span></a></span> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MonoclesSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MonoclesSearch</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a>.</p>
Lars :tux: :AFD:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dju.social/@Plasmogen5_2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Plasmogen5_2</span></a></span> Bitte, bitte NICHT über <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/googleshare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googleshare</span></a> teilen! Das ist böses <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Tracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tracking</span></a> - möchte ich vermeiden!<br>Lieber mit <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>duckduckgo</span></a> suchen: <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">duckduckgo.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
MadeInDex 📰🌎<p>Has anyone else noticed that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> 5 is pretty bad? It keeps asking for details and a lot of follow up questions before commencing work. Might this be an attempt by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> to reduce the insane computational demand?</p><p>You can test the free version GPT-5 mini (along other free models) anonymously at Duck.ai (you can use it via <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tor</span></a> if you don't trust <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ki</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/update" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>update</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chatbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatbot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/costs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>costs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/electricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electricity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computingpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computingpower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/server" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>server</span></a></p>
Jörgi<p>Is there a free, privacy friendly AI like duck.ai from <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>duckduckgo</span></a> that can create images? No registration, just using it?</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/imagecreation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imagecreation</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/aiimages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aiimages</span></a></p>
100%/0% TAX ✅ ✅<p>Claude Haiku 3.5 got web search now!</p><p><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo+AI+Chat&amp;ia=chat&amp;duckai=1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo+A</span><span class="invisible">I+Chat&amp;ia=chat&amp;duckai=1</span></a></p><p>How did this happen? I like that 1 more LLM got search but didn't expect it to be Claude whom I've found to be very strict in how you can interact with it...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckAIClaude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckAIClaude</span></a></p>
Dmytro (Dima) Oliinyk :paw:<p>I started testing <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kagihq" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kagihq</span></a></span> paid search, signed up for the Starter plan 4 days ago. </p><p>Already used almost a third of my queries, so might switch to Unlimited. </p><p>Anyone else tried paid search? The idea is cool: features like Lens, fine-tuned settings, and other perks! But still in doubts.</p><p>If you’ve got experience with paid search, share your thoughts! </p><p>Curious if it’s worth it or if there are any catches.</p><p><a href="https://blog.dol.ch/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://blog.dol.ch/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a> <a href="https://blog.dol.ch/tags/kagi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kagi</span></a> <a href="https://blog.dol.ch/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>duckduckgo</span></a> <a href="https://blog.dol.ch/tags/tracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tracking</span></a> <a href="https://blog.dol.ch/tags/adfree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adfree</span></a></p>
Daniel de Kay<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@jbz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jbz</span></a></span> Watching via <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> seems to still work ad free and unblocked. Whatever they do.</p>
Flominator<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.art/@enriquericos" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>enriquericos</span></a></span> What's the difference between <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/Gibiru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gibiru</span></a> and <a href="https://genealysis.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a>?</p>
jpoesen | 🇪🇺 | 🏳️‍🌈<p>If you're a <a href="https://social.jpoesen.com/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> user, here's a reminder that they also have a version without <a href="https://social.jpoesen.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> integration:</p><p><a href="https://noai.duckduckgo.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">noai.duckduckgo.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻<p>Hi <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedifreu.de/@chpietsch" class="u-url mention">@<span>chpietsch</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://suma-ev.social/@MetaGer" class="u-url mention">@<span>MetaGer</span></a></span>,<br />was bedeutet das für die User-Agents in der <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/robots" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>robots</span></a>.txt?</p><p>Was muß da stehen, damit z.B. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@brave" class="u-url mention">@<span>brave</span></a></span>, <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Metager" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Metager</span></a>, <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Suma" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Suma</span></a>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ecosia" class="u-url mention">@<span>ecosia</span></a></span>, <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Startpage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Startpage</span></a> und evtl. <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> es finden können?</p>
Wulfy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>briankrebs</span></a></span> </p><p>I don't think it's a bug...</p><p>"Perception management" firms have a pretty solid income de-Streisendifying bad stories from the internet.</p><p>If you look for specific Pedo Republicans stories, they are often harder to find, or downranked on Google, comparing with <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>duckduckgo</span></a></p>
ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Richard_Littler</span></a></span> <br>Thanks!<br>For those wondering where it is, the option appears after turning safety off.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIbollocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIbollocks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FuckAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuckAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a></p>
100%/0% TAX ✅ ✅<p>I'm sorry DuckDuckGo but it looks like you are force feeding your users with Microsoft JavaScript.</p><p>You see M$ doesn't give a **** about you.</p><p>THEY DON'T TRUST YOU...and that's why they are giving you THEIR JAVASCRIPT.</p><p>When serving an ad you could make the ad be natural as part of your web page...</p><p>that way I won't have to "accept ads"...I mean if I ALREADY accept your webpage.</p><p>EMBED YOUR ADS</p><p>Is this a tech problem? I think this is more like idiocy...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> #<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGoProblems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGoProblems</span></a></p>
100%/0% TAX ✅ ✅<p>DuckDuckGo isn't good...</p><p>It's a lesser evil.</p><p>It got problems.</p><p>ie. one is the ad network from Microsoft that appears on Duck Duck Go.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LesserEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LesserEvil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGoMicrosoftAds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGoMicrosoftAds</span></a></p>
Claudius<p><a href="https://darmstadt.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> now lets you filter AI images in your image search. Amazing.</p><p>This is, how well this works:</p>
T_X<p>Had been searching for the topics "manganese in drink water" via the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Duckduckgo</span></a> search engine yesterday. And realized that the top five or so websites all had the same text. This in turn made me wonder today:</p><p>Is what generative AI does like drinking from and peeing into the same water reservoir?</p>
Frehi<p>For those that missed the news: European search engines Qwant and Ecosia are starting to use their own web index in order to reduce their dependency on Bing.</p><p>Try them out:<br><a href="https://www.qwant.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">qwant.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://www.ecosia.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">ecosia.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.heise.de/en/news/Ecosia-and-Qwant-launch-web-search-via-European-index-10513567.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heise.de/en/news/Ecosia-and-Qw</span><span class="invisible">ant-launch-web-search-via-European-index-10513567.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/qwant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qwant</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ecosia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosia</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/searchengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengine</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>duckduckgo</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>europe</span></a></p>
The New Oil<p><a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a>: Try <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/PrivacyPro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrivacyPro</span></a> for 7 Days with New Free Trials</p><p><a href="https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-pro-free-trials/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spreadprivacy.com/privacy-pro-</span><span class="invisible">free-trials/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/DataBroker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBroker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VPN</span></a></p>
Richard Broekman<p>Q for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> experts: I used to have my browser start page set to start.duckduckgo.com. I like the clean layout and the search box in the middle of the page. </p><p>Now I want to use noai.duckduckgo.com to avoid AI stuff. This has the search box at the top and clutter below. Is there a URL that gets me the 'noai' version of the 'start' page, without using cookies or hiding elements?</p><p>Note: this is about loading an actual page for my searches, I do not want to search from the address bar. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DDG</span></a></p>
Rolf Blijleven<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> search results are degrading. Ai is totally off in my settings. Yet machine aggregated junk is right up there in the top results. To the point of it becoming unusable. </p><p>What's the deal, Ducky?</p>