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Jon Valdés

@jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

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At Frostbite rendering team.
Spaniard in Stockholm

Website

https://valdes.cc

Jon Valdés 1h ago

Watching this video about Kiki's Delivery Service English dubbing, and halfway through it turns into a sociological analysis of the gift economy, and of how capitalism twists our minds so much that gifts become an almost alien concept.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d5mO-obJdTQ&t=2168s

Absolutely fantastic. It's also made me realize a gift economy is how I want to build community around me. No worrying about monetary value. Just caring about the folks around you.

That Time Disney Ruined Kiki's Delivery Service

YouTube

Jon Valdés 4d ago

Had a whacky dream tonight. Dreamt I met these two wholesome guys that had been race car drivers in the 70's.

They were famous because they couldn't stand seeing broken cars, so they would stop to fix other cars in the middle of a race. Like one time when they stopped to fix Dolly Parton's car and she won the race.

Also, one of them was the driver, the other one was the _bongo player_. The bongo player was there "to keep the driver honest, so he doesn't drive too risky and ends up dying".

Jon Valdés Jun 23

Smoljaguar Jun 22

@aachrisg no, it's actually named after his angular face

Jon Valdés Jun 23

Chris Green Jun 22

I used to think the heaviside function (x>=0)?1:0 was called that because it's "heavy" on one side and empty on the other. It's actually named after mathematician Oliver Heaviside.

Jon Valdés Jun 19

Ernie Smith Jun 19

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.

Jon Valdés Jun 18

nataliyakosmyna Jun 16

𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞.

See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : https://www.brainonllm.com

Jon Valdés Jun 16

We got a visual corruption bug with repro steps "play for 60 minutes, and it'll happen in one of every thirty runs or so"

Kill me now

Jon Valdés Jun 12

Eniko Fox Jun 11

How do I join the butlerian jihad

Jon Valdés Jun 12

Jeff Grigg Jun 11

@glutto @secretgeek

Yes, there is an "i" in "TEAM".

Jon Valdés Jun 11

Erik Jonkers Jun 10

We just published all talks from RustWeek 2025 🦀 🌎
Clear your calendars: 25+ hours and 54 talks worth of amazing Rust content!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Q1w7Ff68DCEXiGidlM0DMn8ztjlUlez

#rustlang #rust #RustWeek

RustWeek 2025 - All talks

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Ernie Smith Jun 19

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 Jun 19

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 Jun 19

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 Jun 19

@ernie Thx for the sharing anyway!

DeltaWye 🔜 Anthrocon-ish?Jun 20

@ernie That UDM=14 site is AWESOME.

Ernie Smith Jun 20

@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 Jun 19

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

Pusher of Pixels Jun 19

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

Ernie Smith Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

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

Ernie Smith Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

@ernie gotcha, thx!

Paul Chambers🚧Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

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

Ernie Smith Jun 19

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

Canvases By Peter Jun 19

@ernie Ah I see 👍

@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 🦄Jun 19

@ernie works really great. Thank you

iveyline Jun 19

@ernie Works well!

Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Jun 19

@ernie @meganL This is amazing. Thank you!

CodeByJeff - Now with AI!Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

@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]Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

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

Rihards Olups Jun 19

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

Cassian [main]Jun 20

@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 Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

@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 Jun 21

@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 Jun 19

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

Ernie Smith Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

@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 🇨🇦Jun 19

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

Ernie Smith Jun 19

@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 🇨🇦Jun 19

@ernie ta very much

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

Ernie Smith Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

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

Ernie Smith Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

@ernie Awesome, thank you!

Neville Park Jun 19

@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 ✨Jun 19

@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 🐝Jun 19

@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 Jun 19

@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 🐝Jun 20

@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.