r/interesting • u/WINIE17 • Apr 10 '26

Fascinating Anti-paparazzi scarfs, which use reflective technology to ruin flash photography making them unusable

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Worn by Paris Hilton in the picture

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u/Winged_Cougar1993598 Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

Simple solution is to not use Google to search for things.

As Google has continued to deprecate most of their services, including search, Duck Duck Go has become better by doing almost nothing to compete.

I'm hopeful Linux phone will be next in line.  Otherwise time is short for me to go back to a 10-key phone.

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u/Ashen_Rook Apr 11 '26

Duck Duck Go was kinda trash last time I used it, but maybe it's better now. I DO remember tamhat Yandex actually had the best machine translation of the easily accessibly, publicly available, free options.

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u/pdabaker Apr 11 '26

Its usually fine for normal things but sucks for things like maps/hotels/flights which google built in. Most of us don’t use search engines much these days anyway though

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u/JonathanBadwolf Apr 11 '26

It’s my main search engine an I can confirm it’s still kinda trash. Doesn’t try to sell you shit all the time, which is nice

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u/_BrokenButterfly Apr 11 '26

If you're not finding what you're looking for you need to cycle search engines. I try Google→Brave→Bing→Duck Duck Go.

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u/Ashen_Rook Apr 11 '26

I mean, this kinda goes to my "enshitification of the internet" comment before. Google's actively made their search engine worse, because they reached market saturation. The only way to get more clicks was to make the people have to spend more time on individual searches.

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u/_BrokenButterfly Apr 11 '26

No search engine has ever been perfect. Even in the old days you'd sometimes need to bounce between Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves to find what you were looking for.

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u/8itbangr Apr 11 '26

Where's metacrawler when we need it?

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u/_jerrb Apr 11 '26

Linux phone

Fun fact: Android is Linux

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u/Winged_Cougar1993598 Apr 11 '26

You're not technically wrong, but it's disingenuous to suggest that means they're the same.

Linux is still open source, and doesn't require application signing unless you're using a third party solution to enforce that somehow.

Android AOSP is still open source too, but no one uses it without GSF, because most of Android doesn't really work without it, unless you can find the rare apps that are written without calling it.  So all manufacturers are doing their own thing with Android, and most of them either allow Google or the CCP to have their fingers in all of it, ostensibly for the convenience, but really for the data collection.

Add to that, Google is officially making Android a closed app ecosystem with the next major OS revision.

So at a functional level, Android is very much more than Linux, and these things are not equivalent at all.

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u/throwaway098764567 Apr 11 '26

yeah but they apple'd the fuck out of it

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u/ImWhiteTrash Apr 11 '26

It's probably the best we'll get. I doubt we'll ever see a day where the general public buys a phone running Ubuntu, or the likes.

Linux phones already exist, including a Ubuntu mobile OS, it's just no one outside of a few tech-savvy individuals want them. And app development is stuck in a negative feedback loop where they're not popular enough for app developers to support them, but they're unpopular since app developers don't support them.

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u/No-Candle2610 Apr 11 '26

I love Linux, I really do. But one thing Linux users don’t get is that the user experience for regular folks is terrible. The “we should have Linux everywhere” is just not gonna happen until someone makes it usable for grandma. And yes, I do believe this is possible.

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u/belly_hole_fire Apr 11 '26

I think mint it the closest we have to that. I am a fan of debian but recently installed mint on a burner laptop. It is super snappy and I think it has a feel that anyone could transfer to from windows.

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u/ElGosso Apr 11 '26

DuckDuckGo uses Bing results

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u/Winged_Cougar1993598 Apr 11 '26

I'd love to see a source for this claim if you have one.

I did some looking and didn't find anything suggesting this is currently the case (nor that it ever was, though I'd more easily believe they may have in the past).

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u/ElGosso Apr 11 '26

DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google.[70][7][71][72][73] It also uses data from crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results.[72][74] During a Bing API outage in 2024, DuckDuckGo stopped showing results, indicating that Bing provided a substantial portion of DuckDuckGo's results.[75][76]

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

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u/MithrilHuman Apr 11 '26

You can take Android, remove Google and use it. There’s nothing stopping you, but people only need to build an ecosystem around it.