Assuming this is about duck.ai, I didn’t know they got shit for it. People I’ve talked to generally enjoy having that option available. It’s free and about as private as you can get with the current LLM chatbots, unless you self host one yourself.

At least until Confer gets off the ground. Once that happens, I’m hoping DDG switches to a similar model

https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/

That’s a bit of a stretch?

People who pay for Kagi likely tried the trial and found the results to be far enough better than google/microslop that they are willing to pay for the ongoing service. Or they want to support a business model that isn’t based around the advertising industry, so that someday Kagi can realistically compete with the incumbents. I don’t need to search for things often enough to justify the cost, but I know people who use it for work and consider it to be worth the cost.

Meanwhile people who bought NFTs thought that they could sell a copy of a digital image for lots of money.

I think they’re talking about DDG, not google

I’m surprised it took this long. The skill argument makes no sense, since you could just as easily try to apply it to any form of traditional gambling.

My bad, I missed that 😄

The links are dead for me, maybe it’s set to private? The first one doesn’t open anything, and the second one takes me to a login page

That might actually work for a chaotic storyline with an antihero version of Two-Face. The dichotomous nature is baked into the character, maybe even too rigidly

Odd, its a pretty old website so maybe something broke. Looks like they have issues with their certificate or something

When I manually edit it to https, I needed to accept the risk to see it

Alternative source

https://www.army.mil/article/109852/drowning_doesnt_look_like_drowning

I remember this interactive game/video where you can try it out yourself

http://spotthedrowningchild.com/

When people hear the word “addiction” they often assume it implies catastrophe intoxication, loss of control, destruction. But addiction medicine describes a process long before those outcomes appear: the gradual shift from optional use to psychological reliance.

That might be interesting! If you build on this idea, it would be cool to see ping times with location data, so instance operators can see what the performance is like with real world data. That was something we were concerned about when trying out different alternatives when leaving CloudFlare.

Sweet, that was fast :)

Next step is to figure out a way for the bird to pilot the drone, like those vehicles driven by mice or goldfish

This is enshitification, but it might be indirectly helping people who are on Twitter too much 😄

It doesn’t do much to bot farms since they can keep spinning up more accounts

That’s true, but I still don’t think we can raise ocean temperatures through direct cooling and renewable sources the way that the greenhouse effect can. Water can absorb a lot of heat energy without changing temperature, and that is why regions close to oceans have a more temperate climate.

While I don’t have enough knowledge in this field to be making any definitive statements, my logic is as follows:

• outside of nuclear fission/fusion reactions, heat energy on the earth’s surface comes from either the sun or molten rock in the core
• that energy is responsible for everything that happens on earth, including wind energy

So we would need to get energy from off planet, use nuclear fission/fusion, or cover enough of the land area in wind and solar farms in order to redirect the sun’s energy over to the oceans.

I think the bigger concern, when it comes to heating the ocean, is that manufacturing, construction, and transport related to the data centers still releases a lot of greenhouse gases. Those gases trap the sun’s energy within our atmosphere and that WILL heat up the earth. Way more than direct cooling using ocean water.

It would probably take more energy than we can harvest on earth, considering the sunlight and geothermal energy doesn’t boil it currently.

I could see it affecting the temperature on local scales, such as the area immediately around the data center.

Open the link in a web browser. If you’re using an app or custom frontend, the link might be opening in your instance.

Since it’s a small community, and you are the first person to subscribe to it from your instance, it might not have federated content over to your one yet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliophorus_versicolor

The page doesn’t say, and I don’t know enough about mushrooms to judge.

I did however come across many vibe coded “can I eat this mushroom, upload an image” tools…

I think the original title was more helpful because it shows that this is a recent development. Maybe you can add “new CEO”?

Bitwarden scrubs ‘Always free’ and ‘Inclusion’ values from its website as longtime execs step down

In February, longtime CEO Michael Crandell moved to an advisory role, according to LinkedIn, with no announcement from the company. His replacement, Michael Sullivan, former CEO of both Acquia and Insightsoftware, touts his experience with “all facets of mergers and acquisitions” on his own LinkedIn page, including experience working with leading private equity firms.

CFO Stephen Morrison also left Bitwarden in April, replaced by former InVision CEO Michael Shenkman. Both Crandell and Morrison joined the company in 2019. Kyle Spearrin, who started Bitwarden as a fun hobby project in 2015, remains the company’s CTO.