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Fritz Adalis

@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange

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Infosec Lurker | Technical Debt Collector

It's not for fun, or any sense of community.
It's just trying to dull the pain.

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Fritz Adalis 17m ago

Yann Le Gall 6h ago

various edge bundling experiments. They have a satisfying motion.

Fritz Adalis 35m ago

Owls in Towels 40m ago

Feasting like a champ

“This Northern Hawk Owl is a true foodie and arrived into our care with TWO broken wings! He won’t let that stop him, and is on the mend after undergoing surgery to pin the fractures”

Original post by Wildlife Haven, Île des Chênes, Manitoba
Link to donate: https://wildlifehaven.ca/pages/donate
#owlsintowels

Fritz Adalis 48m ago

Richard "mtfnpy" Harman (he/him)1h ago

Today I learned: recent video cards (e.g. the Intel Irix Xe Graphics) often don't support color bit depth greater than 8 bit, and will do temporal dithering (flipping pixels rapidly to approximate a color).

Why. The. Fuck. Have. We. Rolled. Backwards.

The flickering is goddamn visible to me, my USB-C monitor *supports 24 bit depth* and I have to blame Intel for sucking donkey balls for making such a shit integrated graphics card in my laptop (13th gen i7-1370p)

Fritz Adalis 53m ago

/r/netsec 1h ago

Just casually broke bunq’s sandbox with 0day-level spoofing, and nobody seems to care 🇳🇱 https://privatebin.net/?7073ce1add8438ec#TYEhQM7TSgnZEu6mBYaE9HeVSh2qXtYBHoEVghUcpoM

PrivateBin

Visit this link to see the note. Giving the URL to anyone allows them to access the note, too.

PrivateBin

Fritz Adalis 58m ago

@tinker
Small town playhouses are awesome!

Fritz Adalis 1h ago

@tinker
We got ww3 out of the way.

Other than that, Mr. Tinker, how was the play?

Fritz Adalis 1h ago

Body bags and dropping bombs
The Pentagon knows how to turn us on

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fA0fZ3LARsw

Wargasm

YouTube

Fritz Adalis 1h ago

@w7voa
The sternest of sternly-worded letters.

Fritz Adalis 4h ago

if you want to prove ai works, stop trying to replace blue and white collar jobs with it. instead try:
- replacing ads
- translating cat and dog speech to english
- eliminate the concept and need for health insurance
- analyze all traffic cameras footage and eliminate traffic
- feed it all weather data at all times and have it make better forecasts
- make fake sports and let sports people froth over that
- make it solve chemical puzzles and invent new, cheap drugs to heal folks

Fritz Adalis 4h ago

Plague Poems May 27

My aunt, the doctor,
told me a new joke.
She asked:

How bad
is the new Covid variant?

I replied:
I don’t know, how bad is it?

And she answered:
The new Covid variant
is so bad
that the media
is having to report on it.

And then neither of us laughed.

×

Ernie Smith 3d ago

Just learned there was a new Google udm code discovered. So you know what I had to do.

https://udm56.com/

Still kicking in on the DNS front, but it’s already up.

Edit: https://udm14.com still works too, this is just an alternative view.

Ernie Smith 3d ago

This is essentially a super-light version of the Google search with no Google branding. Here’s what it looks like on desktop and mobile.

Unlike &udm=14, it shows knowledge panels, but AI does not appear to be part of it.

Ernie Smith 3d ago

I didn’t uncover this. This was spotted via a Reddit thread—but I will note that it appears to be new, as I did not see it when I looked through every udm code in March.

The thread is here if you want to see it: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1le5ibq/googles_udm56_parameter_unlocks_cleaner_and/

mikeTesteLinuxQlub 2d ago

@ernie Thx for the sharing anyway!

DeltaWye 🔜 Anthrocon-ish?1d ago

@ernie That UDM=14 site is AWESOME.

Ernie Smith 1d ago

@DeltaWye Thanks—that tag was something I did find on my own. I’m glad folks have found it useful!

@ernie I'm guessing that should read 'Want a Google search' rather than 'What a Google search'?

Thanks for your efforts!

Ernie Smith 3d ago

@voxel LOL figures, I did this fast! Will fix.

Pusher of Pixels 3d ago

@ernie any idea if there's a local way to do this? I'm wondering about a browser plugin or something

Ernie Smith 3d ago

@pixelpusher220 It’s an easy tweak if you’re on chrome—you can add it to the browser yourself. The basic format looks like this. You can add this yourself. Safari doesn’t support this though, sadly.

There is a search.xml on the site for autodetection, but it doesn’t seem to be kicking in on Firefox yet.

Ernie Smith 3d ago

@pixelpusher220 I do plan on opening up the code for this as I did udm14.com

@ernie @pixelpusher220 is there a eli5 for udm14 and udm56 or udm in general?

Pusher of Pixels 3d ago

@ernie 'add it to the browser' meaning some other way than just typing it in the url as pictured?

Ernie Smith 3d ago

@pixelpusher220 Yes, you can add custom search engines to your browser. That URL is the code you would need to put into Chrome or Vivaldi. Here’s how I do it in Vivaldi.

My post from last year explains the process: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

Ernie Smith 3d ago

@pixelpusher220 I originally built this as a way so people who aren’t tech-savvy could use these search engines without going into settings or installing extensions.

Pusher of Pixels 3d ago

@ernie gotcha, thx!

Paul Chambers🚧3d ago

@ernie This is how I created the search from the browser bar. One can set it as default or start and search with UDM from the bar @pixelpusher220

Code is also in the alt text for the URL

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=56

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Canvases By Peter 2d ago

@ernie Hmmmmm, NoScript blocked domain 'servedby-buysellads . com' when I opened that link, lol

Ernie Smith 2d ago

@CanvasesByPeter there is an ad on it to just cover server costs (as the prior udm14 had), feel free to block

Canvases By Peter 2d ago

@ernie Ah I see 👍

saxnot (not at GPN)2d ago

@ernie back to https://mastodon.nl/@Edwin085/114702535050970245 basically

Edwin (@Edwin085@mastodon.nl)

Attached: 1 image An ad for Google in 1999.

Mastodon.nl door Stichting Activityclub

@ernie ok I'm saving this the AI 95% of the time I find so unnecessary and annoying.

Laurent 🦄2d ago

@ernie works really great. Thank you

iveyline 2d ago

@ernie Works well!

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈2d ago

@ernie @meganL This is amazing. Thank you!

CodeByJeff - Now with AI!2d ago

@ernie
Still lacking a "only show results that contain what I searched for" option.

It might be in there somewhere, it was one of the things that got Google popular in the beginning.

@ernie The interface is cool, if only it could get the quality of the results to how they were 15 years ago.

Rihards Olups 2d ago

@pq1r @ernie Haha, had the same thought :)
UI is "yaaaay, back to useful".

The reported result shittification is sad, though. Removing usefulness of Google search for quick bucks.

Cassian [main]2d ago

@ernie Once you've done a search the search bar disappears, which is weird, BUT I just worked out how to add it as a default search engine on Firefox, which is pretty good. 🤔 Thanks!

Ernie Smith 2d ago

@cassolotl yep the missing search bar is what makes it minimalist!

Rihards Olups 2d ago

@cassolotl @ernie How did you do it? Would like to join in.

Cassian [main]1d ago

@richlv @ernie Right-click on the address bar when you're on the site, and click "add as search engine" or something, and then go into settings and set it as the default search engine!

Mokorana 2d ago

@ernie great work. Used it already without knowing who made it.

S'il faut utiliser Google autant le faire sans IA

@ernie nice job, I don't use google. I guess you just cloned the project and replaced 56 instead of 14 but “what is udm56?" links to the explanation of "what is Udm14?".

So what is Udm56? I am curious.

edit: nevermind you explained here. I just jumped on your website cause i am Depth-Search first kind of guy 😄

Ernie Smith 2d ago

@splinux it's another search code that gives you a different search experience. One common complaint about udm14 was that knowledge panels weren't in there. This has some.

I will write a dedicated post about it this week

Marius Gundersen 2d ago

@ernie I'm surprised (not really) how fast this page loads, compared to the regular results page. Seems I'm conditioned to wait for my Google response now, but it really doesn't need to be that slow, apparently!

@ernie Why do people still use Google? Genuinely curious.

Ernie Smith 2d ago

@blhue Google has a large amount of information resources that other search engines do not—such as an easy-to-search patent library, millions of scanned books, and a freely accessible archive of Usenet posts. (They don’t promote it much these days, but they also have a printed newspaper archive.) Other search engines may be better at pulling up relevant results from the Web, but Google built up a very strong moat before its quality went downhill.

Paul Palinkas 8h ago

@blhue it’s the most popular search engine in the world by a large margin. This question makes you sound like a Martian.

Logan Fick 2d ago

@ernie So how long until Google deletes this flag silently and it turns back into normal search results?

Ernie Smith 2d ago

@logan No clue, but I will note I also run udm14.com (which offers a different search view) and it hasn’t changed in more than a year

Logan Fick 2d ago

@ernie Good to know! I guess it stays under the radar enough for them to not really care. Thanks for putting this together! 😁

Ernie Smith 2d ago

@logan Seemingly every news outlet reported on udm14 (including a bunch of big ones), so I don’t know if it’s that. This one is different in that there’s not really an equivalent view you can grab directly from the standard Google interface. But we’ll see.

J.D. MacLeod 🇨🇦2d ago

@ernie does this mean i shouldn't use udm14 anymore?

Ernie Smith 2d ago

@johncomic Nope—this is just another option that solves one of the biggest complaints about udm14 (no knowledge panels). I think udm56 might be a good mobile option but udm14 might be better for web. Both work!

J.D. MacLeod 🇨🇦2d ago

@ernie ta very much

@ernie seems interesting but i have no idea what udm is

Ernie Smith 2d ago

@clot27 It‘s a code that Google uses in its url tags for its various different views. The best known is udm=14 (the web view) but this is another one. Google makes these hard to find. This website simplifies using them, and refers to them by the udm name to make the process transparent.

David Fleetwood - RG Admin 2d ago

@ernie Possible to self host/toss into a docker container?

Ernie Smith 2d ago

@reflex Yes. It’s just a static site. I have not polished it up yet but the code is in the udm14 repo:

https://github.com/readtedium/udm14/tree/udm56

I would recommend removing any analytics or ad stuff from it if you can.

GitHub - readtedium/udm14 at udm56

Code for udm14.com, a site with an easily-accessible AI-free Google search. This has a CC0 license so consider the code public domain. - GitHub - readtedium/udm14 at udm56

GitHub

David Fleetwood - RG Admin 2d ago

@ernie Awesome, thank you!

Neville Park 2d ago

@ernie sick!! thank you for making this.

@ernie Another thing related to this topic I found recently: You can revive the "Add search engine" button in Firefox settings:

add the key `browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh` in about:config and set it `true`.

piebob ✨2d ago

@ernie fantastic! i'm now looking for a firefox (librewolf) extension to add this as my default search bar setting as well, so far i only see the udm=14 one by Donald Hoburn (which i'm currently using).

Apicultor 🐝2d ago

@ernie Replacing what's at the _beginning_ of the URL is even better:

https://kagi.com/

Gruber even compares it to what you suggest (more or less): https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_switching_to_kagi

Kagi Search - A Premium Search Engine

Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

Ernie Smith 2d ago

@apicultor @kagihq I have been running udm14 for over a year. I have heard every single variation of this argument.

It's okay if you're not the target audience.

Apicultor 🐝1d ago

@ernie Tell us you don't give a shit about quality search results without telling us you don't give a shit about quality search results.

Even DuckDuckGo is better than Google.