icon is my first cat Puna. I'm an adult trying to figure out what that means so if anyone can figure out what life or this blog is about please tell me. Multishipper. Leverage my beloved. #spoonielife. but also cool science things and memes? but also literally anything that makes me laugh? oh and a bunch of cats. good luck.
I like to think there was some account that was making those imagine type posts like people did for one direction and Ilya loved sending them to Shane to annoy him
Like: “imagine you can’t swim and someone pushes you into a pool so Shane dives in to rescue you” and it’s the gif of him from the wet tee shirt photo shoot and Ilya is like would u save me Hollander and Shane is like no I’d be the one pushing you
Or like “outfit for when Shane invites you to his cottage” and it’s like galaxy leggings, a metros tee shirt, and uggs and Ilya is like “ok Shane I have my packing list ready do u want to see”
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.
“I met a gorgeous girl last night but then I found out she, you know, serves on Rackham’s crew” “tough, better luck next time you’re on shore leave, mate”
or “we all went up to visit Mapleton’s girls, except for Harrison, ‘cos he sails with Flint”
or “you think she’s on Rackham’s crew, or is it worth asking if i can see her again tomorrow night?” “her? no, I heard she, uh, you know, works for Eleanor Guthrie, I think it’s worth a shot”
anne hears people talking about women who “sail with Rackham” in whispers, so she storms up to jack like “what the fuck are you planning with all these people?? without telling me??” and jack is just like “???? i’ve never heard of those ladies in my life” while max is just giggling in the background because She Knows that jack’s legacy is being the Let’s Go Lesbians guy
Overheard two (high school? probably?) girls discussing some book on the train, with a lot of "They're just SO gay for each other" type comments and did not think much of it at first until it became clear to me over the course of their conversation that they were in fact discussing the main characters of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic gothic horror novella The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
people saying “don’t use your full government name for your ao3”, “create different emails for work and personal use” but personally I think it’s both sad and dystopian how capitalism/companies/even schools think they have the rights to cross your personal boundaries and insert themselves into your personal life. like, I get it, safety wise, why checking digital footprints can be important sometimes. but a gay fanfiction is not a fucking threat that could ever cause anybody harm. it’s funny (not really, it’s still sad and dystopian) how they now think they can control your personal life and prevent you from having hobbies
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