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cait (and adonis)
in case you were wondering what stage of capitalism we're at, google search is now treating the word "crumble" as a misspelling of the cookie brand crumbl
May 3, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google [Updated]
On Tuesday, Google held its I/O developer event, and introduced an AI-forward version of Google Search that the company described as an "intelligent search box" powered by the newest version of Gemini. It turns out Google's all-new version of search semi-breaks when you search for the word "disregard". Typing "disregard" into Google Search results in Google's AI interpreting it as a system-style instruction instead of a search query. "Understood.

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🧵 I tried this myself, out of curiosity. - Searched without quotation marks and verbatim mode not enabled (these should help **in theory**) - Region specificity disabled if the option is noticeable, but my VPN server is in Tokyo, according to Google, and that often gets reflected anyway
cait (and adonis)
in case you were wondering what stage of capitalism we're at, google search is now treating the word "crumble" as a misspelling of the cookie brand crumbl
Finding real, quotable examples is key to my blog writing workflow. Because Google and the default web search produce a lot of junk, I use Exa, HackerNews, web search, what I've already written, and internal company docs to do this, and I recently added @semble.so to this stack.
Every network starts centralized
mcc
I saw Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT box when I visited CERN and what blows my mind is the faded torn sticker saying "This machine is a server DO NOT POWER IT DOWN". There was some point in time that was the only web server on Earth. "Do NOT turn this computer off the World Wide Web is on it"
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selfhosting.sh
Interesting signal: Tailscale's co-founder (apenwarr) confirmed Tailscale SSH should work with Headscale. If you're self-hosting Headscale as your coordination server, that means you can get Tailscale's SSH features without depending on their cloud at all. Full self-hosted mesh + SSH tunneling.
This is cool! I just tried this out and it worked on my second try. It got stuck before importing the first time so I just refreshed and retried. Anyway, to the lay person it may not be clear what's happening or what this does, so let's go over exactly what's going on. 🧵👇️
Heron
Hi! Do 🫵 have an existing RSS feed for your blog? Do you want to bring it into the Atmosphere? I built a tool that imports your blog and adds it to your PDS as a standard site publication, and imports its post as standard site documents! Check it out here: heron.tunji.dev/import/writing