It’s completely markdown which is future-proof and easily portable to other software

Good to know. I will say as a colorblind person, it’s always a tad ironic because as a colorblind person, the filters don’t make things definitive. It’s still a bunch of random colors that I can’t identify lol

Ran nala after seeing this post and got a libc update on Debian myself

I’m sure most of us are old enough to remember when citing directly from wikipedia was seen as stupid and in poor taste because ‘anyone could edit the articles’.

It’s likely still premature to fully trust in definitions from LLMs, but it’s worth noting that AFAIK, basically every LLM is trained off of wikipedia articles because the data is free, easily accessible and contains the answers to lots of random human questions

What surprised me was the amount of Android users. I guess self-hosters are predisposed to tinkering in general perhaps?

7 years support for (new & future) Pixels & 10 years of support for Chromebooks. WATTBA

I agree re: malicious compliance. Also leading w/ the web price knowing that the majority of their base uses mobile devices to connect

m/TheyDidTheMath

Come on over to Linux yall, the water’s open-source vibes are fine

It feels like every other post on privacy and technology is someone pushing the (paid) search engine Kagi nowadays…

Good point when you frame it that way, but also worth acknowledging that relative to the alternatives, it is an uphill battle that most won’t be bothered with. My experience involved reading this site + joining their discord + digging into Github for troubleshooting, which is not a viable option for 80% of users

It is worth noting that they updated their support to be 10 years moving forward, so I disagree with the eWaste sentiment. I agree that Linux as a permanent alternative isn’t super easy, and I say that typing from a Chromebook running Debian 12.

I think the article appears biased because searxng appears to offer the same functionality as Kagi, in spite of being free, yet Kagi is shown to be the best in class for some reason? Also it doesn’t touch on the critique that kagi having a login potentially aggregates all of your searches into one account that is stored by one company.

I use NewPipe and what has helped me the most is not having to deal w/ the recommendation algorithm.

I reset my subscriptions to only be the most relevant feeds from YouTube and then I only check the subscription page. I’ve consciously curated the feed to be more productive and I’m much less likely to get distracted when watching videos

My 4a 5G screen cracked beyond usage three weeks ago. I thought about it & ended up buying a used 4a 5G for $100 on swappa. I get too much usage via the earphone jack and don’t see any new features that warrant an upgrade.

Gonna keep it until the first update skips me and then root & flash it w/ Pixel Experience

Anyone backed by Peter Thiel is guilty by association at this point.

Same. It completely ignores exact phrase match so you can’t drill down with the most important aspects of a query. Ecosia was the same way IIRC, so it might be related to people using Bing data as a 3rd party perhaps

bad bot

Wayback Machine ftw. Here is August 2023:

The only piece of personal information we collect is the IP address your internet connection runs over at a given moment. Why? We need to protect ourselves against “spammers”, meaning ad fraud and bots trying to up-rank certain search results. Your IP address is anonymised after one week or less. For example, 192.168.152.223 becomes 192.168.XXX.XXX.

We still use Microsoft Bing to deliver search results, but using them through Ecosia is very different from searching on Bing directly. At Microsoft or Google, you are likely to have personal IDs which track you across all of their services: email, calendar, video platform, gaming, video conferencing, maps, locations, location history, and so on.

We don’t sell any data to anyone and we don’t buy any data either.

We are interested in the performance of our social media advertising, as well as answering your search results. We would like to know if users stay with us once they have seen our ads and installed us. This helps us run the right advertising campaigns on the right platforms. We never let those platforms know your search terms, though. We only share whether you are still searching with us or not. We only do so with your consent and you can remove that consent at any time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230729030327/https://www.ecosia.org/privacy

Was struggling through an attempted self-install of SearXNG. So far so good, w/ this one, thanks for sharing