Name: RedWinterRoses, you can call me Red
Pronouns: she/her
Fandoms: Hermitcraft, Life Series, and related content
You can find me streaming with the Contrarian Trio (LelilaPlays and Skribblegurl) on Friday nights on Twitch, with the same username, and occasionally from the Edge SMP server!
On AO3 as RedWinterRoses
radio shack at the end of the world: A quiet apocalypse featuring Etho, Pearl, Bdubs, and Etho's goats
Reset, Restore: A server reset leaves Impulse amnesiac and lost in the end, and Wels determined to save the day
Recall: Mumbo's gone missing, and Grian and Scar go in search of him -- right into a simulated alternate season 7, where Mumbo is mayor and Grumbot reigns supreme.
Everything Turns to Gold: An epic fantasy Empires s1 fic about the cost of power, the value of loyal friends, and how Jimmy deserved a hero arc.
This Is Boatem (We Have a Dragon): Hermitcraft, early s8, Grian gets a little... dragony.
Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.
You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
Our @falsesymmetryzine is OUT!! I had the honor of making a piece dedicated to the Hermitcraft 5 section of the Zine
Go download the Zine and take a gander!! So much skill, time, and dedication packed into a beautiful package to celebrate False’s artistry and our community 🤍
Yesterday, I switched to searching for things with noai.duckduckgo.com, and everytime I type “No AI” in, I imagine myself side-eyeing an increasingly irritated Google. I am just one person, I doubt my refusal to use Google’s “search engine” will make a difference in their numbers, but man, does it feel good to IMAGINE that pointed side-eye.
#Ramblings#I have to keep it open as a tab on my phone though#So I don’t automatically type a query into my browser’s url bar#Which will direct me to Google [via @o-lei-o-lai-o-lord]
*emerges from the woodwork* *cracks knuckles*
Unsolicited advice incoming, for whoever happens to be reading this and happens to be tired of seeing AI summary results at the top of their every web search. There is a way to set searching via noai.duckduckgo.com to be your default search engine, without having to change your browser or keep search tab open perpetually or any of that stuff. I.e., you can just. search for things. in your browser's url bar. And it will just automatically run the search in the NoAI version of DuckDuckGo.
For anyone who doesn't know how to do this and wants to, the process for adding it as your default search engine in both Firefox and Microsoft Edge is under the cut. Unfortunately I've cut ties with Google Chrome enough that I uninstalled on all of my devices, but I imagine that the process is similar enough to these two to figure out.
(Also, my sincere apologies, o-lei-o-lai-o-lord, for hijacking your post.)
Version 1: Mozilla Firefox
Step 1: Go to your search settings. Easiest way to do this is by clicking the search engine icon on your URL bar
and selecting Search Settings
Step 2: Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and find the section called Search Shortcuts. Now click the Add button (ignore the fact that I already have NoAI DuckDuckGo added; it's fine)
Step 3: Add noai.duckduckgo.com as a search engine
The search engine name doesn't matter, but the URL is very important. You want to type, exactly: "https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?ia=web&q=%s" (excluding the quotation marks). Once you've entered that, click Save Engine.
Congrats! You've added a search engine to your web browser.
Step 4: Set your newly-added search engine to be your default. Scroll back up to the top of the page, click the drop down menu under Default Search Engine, and select your new NoAI DuckDuckGo engine.
Firefox saves settings automatically, so you've now successfully configured your browser to run all of your browser URL searchs in noai.duckduckgo.com without any additional effort on your part.
Version 2: Microsoft Edge
Step 1: Go to your search settings. Edge is annoying, so search settings are harder to get to. One way is via the meatballs menu at the top right:
clicking on Settings and then running a search in the browser settings for "search engine":
Click on the "Search engines" result and then into the settings menu itself to get to this screen:
which has all of your search engines listed.
Step 2: Click on the "Add search engine" button indicated in the image above and add noai.duckduckgo.com as a search engine:
Again, the search engine name doesn't matter. The shortcut needs to be "noai.duckduckgo.com" (excluding quotation marks) and the URL needs to be, exactly, "https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?ia=web&q=%s" (excluding the quotation marks). Once you've entered all of that information, click "Add."
Congrats! You've added a search engine to Edge.
Step 3: Set your newly-added search engine to be your default by clicking on the meatballs menu beside the search engine name and selecting "Make default":
You've now successfully configured your browser to run all of your browser URL searchs in noai.duckduckgo.com without any additional effort on your part.
I don't have an explicit step-by-step process for any other browsers, but this should give a pretty good idea of how to manage it if you're interested. The query URL is really the most important part, so if you've got that and you can find your browser search engine settings, you should be fine.
my neighbor, bless him, has rediscovered his love of electric guitar.
and he's not bad at it... he's just. Dedicated. In a very specific way.
I have been sat here for 20 minutes, and in that time, he has played nothing but A#...C...D. A#...C...D. A#...C...D-- (𝅗𝅥𝅗𝅥♪ for anyone who cares). Just. On a loop. Unwavering. Unchanging.
I support his musical hobby but also. Sir. There are a myriad of other notes, would you care to try a few?
this is even funnier because i just had another post about grian’s extended family being all of his alter egos right here you and me same brainwave mate
