As I was reading the article, I was thinking how glad I was that I switched - I am on the yearly plan now because I’m not going back to “free” search engines.

This guy’s got great taste in films, I’ll have to watch some of those that I haven’t and then I get to enjoy the book cover.

It allows me to connect into the house via the VPS without opening ports or knowing my home address.

Nowadays there are various companies offering tunnelling services, but my setup has been working for a long time and I see no reason to change.

It’s the root OS; that Pi is a media centre in the living room (plus it’s taken on a few extra duties since it’s always online). It’s been going for a good few years now, 8+?

I’ve been running OSMC (Kodi on Debian) plus a few useful things like maintaining a reverse SSH connection to a VPS.

He always mysteriously gets frail and feeble-minded when it’s time for him to have to testify in court. Once that’s over his memory magically returns to him and he goes back to his mafia don mode.

There was a hack in 2011 where The Sun’s website claimed Murdoch was dead.

https://www.example.com/(.*)|https://archive.today/search/?q=https://www.example.com/$1

This takes you to the search results so it’s an extra click to get to the actual page.

My actual regex is a bit more complicated since it deals with multiple domains but that’s the gist.

I’ve been using Kagi for two months and I’m loving it - the ability to control your results is amazing. Some things I do:

• remove or downrate things like pinterest and w3schools from my results
• rewrite www.reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/*
• rewrite to send some sources through archive.today or similar to break paywalls
• rewrite to set the language of some sites that GeoIP my location but ignore my language headers

Also, having keyboard controls - like Google used to have - is so welcome, and their AI summarisation tools are actually useful too.

What’s this easy fix then? Just a lower number? That will just mean more publishers.

AI detection tools don’t work, and humans aren’t much better, unless they’re subject experts. How do we stop AI books?

The article mentions that Hurd is also a recursive acronym, but doesn’t go into any more details.

After looking it up on Wikipedia, I see why not:

It’s time [to] explain the meaning of “Hurd”. “Hurd” stands for “Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons”. And, then, “Hird” stands for “Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth”. We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

I can only answer the first part: .jxl

• PDA: I loved my Palm Pilot and I can still write using that script (was quite nice when I noticed my Android keyboard supported it)

• Raspberry Pi: this feels weird to be on this list! I still have one in the living room running Kodi

• No to the others, although I did have one of these beauties:

Some great lines in this film. Perhaps my favourite is

I watched this for the first time the other day and was shocked they didn’t make more (particularly as I’d noticed some other The Nice Guys titles in imdb but they’re all shorts or what would have been DVD extras once upon a time). Given that this was initially developed as a series, I’m sure they have more stories to tell, It’s a real shame.

I hate seeing new IPs not get traction as it just leads execs to churn out more of the same old remakes and repeats.

When I last used Debian, I found myself very annoyed with the lag in the package manager. This is a very long time ago (15 years?), so probably isn’t the case any longer. However, due to laziness (or proactively avoiding a bikeshed rabbit hole) I didn’t check and just chose Ubuntu over Debian the other day because of that.

Yeah, the original thin clients were basically useless without the server they connected to, but nowadays even computers the size of a stick of gum are plenty powerful enough for consuming webpages and videos.

You still need peripherals like mouse, keyboard and screen but you might get them as part of the package (sounds like you already have them though).

I love that it’s got the summary at the start, very respectful of readers’ time 👍

my account is still 100% storj token funded

That seems to be the key bit, since everyone can use up to 25TB (if they can pay for it). Are you also hosting a node to earn credits tokens?

From the first paragraph:

And best of all, NASA says it will be “ad-free, no cost, and family-friendly”

Looks like you’re one of those who just assumes they know what a story’s about after glancing at the link title…

I love Mermaid, although I don’t think you can currently do network diagrams. I’ve seen Kroki recommended here for doing that, which supports Mermaid plus many similar markup-based diagrammers.

[Edit: added link and more info]