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   over 4 years ago
   Google chrome, firefox, edge, ie, opera, are now tracking you.

   ddg is my favorite search engine and it has great restutes. It has a built in video player too! The only problem is that i have to use google in a blue moon to get the results it need. Duckside! Brave! Lunix!

Tildes mentions (240)

• RSS Server Side Reader

  I was curious too so I Googled it. The hits were just similar posts in HN comments and this one on Tildes says more (assuming it is the same person): https://tildes.net/~tech/1e5n/rss_users_how_do_you_use_organize_and_maximize_your_enjoyment_of_rss#comment-c0i4. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• An origin trial for a new HTML <permission> element

  Google probably wants to bring the "maybe later" anti-pattern to the browser permission system: https://tildes.net/~tech/1d9u/im_thoroughly_done_with_my_choices_being_only_yes_or_not_now. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• College English majors can't read

  The study in question is... questionable, at best, IMO. Discussed elsewhere, and a comment there summarized (and led to further discussion) why the study is not as representative as we might assume. Link below [0], as it's simultaneously far too long to re-post here (especially from mobile), yet well worth the read. That said, for ease of reading, the opening paragraph starts: There's a lot of awful stuff that has... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip

  Glad to finaly see someone in the low-power chip industry going in the open source direction. Thanks for the insight! When I saw rePebble be announced, I signed up for it right away. But I realized I actually don't want a smartwatch, I want a dumb watch with vibration notifications. I know I'm in the minority, but it's a niche that has a few very interested people in it [0] [1] [2] After wearing the Casio F105 for... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Reddit Will Introduce Paywalls in 2025

  I just remembered that Tildes (https://tildes.net/) still exists, I wholly forgot about it. Anyone else using it these days, perhaps over reddit and even lemmy, mastodon etc? - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

DuckDuckGo mentions (1814)

• Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place

  The AI stuff can be disabled. Duckduckgo allows you to store settings in the URL, so if you're the type of person who disables cookies and localstorage you could simply edit your search URL to: https://duckduckgo.com/?k5=1&kbe=0&kbj=1&kbg=-1&q=%s. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

  It's solid, I use it 95% of the time, that 5% Google usually still disappoints. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=midjourney&ia=web. - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

• Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks

  Anyone familiar with The Onion knows this, The Onion themselves repost the exact same thing every time there's a school shooting. Which emphasizes how regularly it happens, and therefore in turn I have no objection to a joke like this becoming copy pasta every time an NPM supply chain attack takes place. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Atheonion.com+%22no+way+to+prevent+this%22. - Source: Hacker News / 17 days ago

• Challenges You Will Face When Parsing PDFs with Python

  This is not insightful. It describes (in a very typical padded, AI style) some generic reasons that PDFs are hard to parse (which apply just as much in any programming language), and then makes a few common suggestions for Python PDF parsing libraries that could trivially be found by anyone who needs them with a simple Web search (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+pdf+library). (Admittedly, PyPI's own search is... - Source: Hacker News / 19 days ago

• Minesweeper Thermodynamics

  Similar game: Mamono Sweeper https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mamono+sweeper (mamono is monster in japanese) it's a RPG variant of Minesweeper, where you have life points, level up and fight against monster (mines) that gives you xp once killed (you loose HP if you fight a monster higher lvl than you). it's a flash game, that had an android release at some point (it was removed from the store for some reasons). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago