It’s still FOSS, and you can either download it offline or selfhost the server if you want to use it without paying. Services cost money to run, I’m not going to ask for them to run that for free indefinitely 🤷

The xcancel thread with the video: https://xcancel.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2060164928472854821#m

This makes a lot of sense, but it might take some getting used to. I think people are more self-critical and embarrassed about their coding ability and mistakes than they should be, and they might worry about all that being public.

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

From what we can see on our end, this account doesn’t match the pattern of the other harassment accounts

They’re somewhat sandboxed, likely to be up to date, and it behaves similarly across different machines. It’s nice for GUI programs that don’t need access to the wider system, and it won’t mess with anything else that I already have installed. I guess it would have similar pros and cons as containerization with Podman/Docker?

I get the vast majority of my GUI programs from Flathub. I didn’t know there was a controversy with it, other than just wanting a different way of doing things.

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.

With everything running, you’ll be able to launch arbitrary programs and have the windows placed within the Minecraft world as if they were in-game. Users can place the windows in any orientation and can interact with them like any other desktop environment. [EVVIE] has released all of the code under the GPL for anyone wanting to try it out or build on the project itself.

Oh, that’s not what I was expecting 😄

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.

thank you, all of those accounts have been banned, along with any others that matched the pattern from the last week.

PartyDonut@lemmy.zip, from your previous comment, seems to be unrelated and doesn’t match the pattern, and so they were not banned

Nixon said the news release was sent in error by UCP caucus staff who have apologized. He said Lunty did not sign off on his statement in the release.

After everything else that’s happened, yea that’s a load of shit

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