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@ambivalena Ja, har gĆ„tt och tƤnkt pĆ„ den hela dagenā¦ nƶjd att jag kom ihĆ„g att skissa den innan det blev dags att knoppa.
You donāt want to get left behind.
Du vill inte hamna pƄ efterkƤlken.
@number6 That is super interesting. The conspiracy theorist in me suspects a forum fallout with Kagi founder Vladā¦
@number6 Haha, yes, itās hard to fathom. š¤£
@number6 Yes, Iāve written the same argument :)
https://axbom.com/duckduckgo-bangs/
But now Iām intent on ditching gaggle altogether. Setting my own startpage is helping (I have a more customized personal version of the udo search).
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@number6 Haha, love that idea. There is actually a page, I just have to make the bang, which obviously will be '!bang' ā will fix tomorrow.
https://udo.se/bangs.php
Lots of people are struggling to choose a search engine other than Google. I made a thing to encourage people to not only try many different global search engines with better privacy, but to also remind everyone to purposefully use site-specific engines. You'll want to check out the full list of !bangs.
I believe everyone should !bang moreā¦ That may or may not be a better tagline for this search box.
https://udo.se
@ghosttie @hsza @blaurascon @zzt if something is free it could also just be given by a nice person who likes to help other people.
(but yes, you are generally the product in cases where people are encouraged to pay for access to you via the free service)
@topofmyvoice @WeirdWriter @c_merriweather @zzt @blaurascon > ā¦I'm calling them all the time for cooking and home repair adviceā¦
Love this.
I just want to give a shoutout to a software company I have turned to for many, many years and that has never let me down. It's a rare thing.
Rogue Amoeba. Always blown away by how useful and functional their software is, with something for every audio challenge.
https://www.rogueamoeba.com
@nazokiyoubinbou @mancube Yandex is actually more tied to the Kremlin than most are aware.
https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/zois-spotlight/the-sad-fate-of-yandex-from-independent-tech-startup-to-kremlin-propaganda-tool
The Philosopher in the Valley by Michael Steinberger (on Karp and Palantir) is not available as an ebook on Kobo in Sweden(!), only as an audiobook. So weird.
What other books on Palantir, perhaps more recent, could someone perhaps recommend? Doing research for an essay with the intent to help more people understand its risks and impact.
If you are considering the Kagi search engine, there are aspects you should be aware of from an ethics perspective.
https://khevans.com/2025/08/21/kagi-ethics.html
āA portion of your fee goes towards Yandex, indirectly funding Russiaās invasion of Ukraine. Vlad, the CEO, has stated that 2% of their total costs in 2024 goes towards Yandex. He has also stated that there is no intent of changing this.ā
āAt least other search engines like DuckDuckGo have halted their partnerships with Yandex. Kagiās refusal to do so and Vladās firm support of Yandex is quite telling. If others have ceased partnering with Yandex, why canāt Vlad?ā
āItās worth mentioning that Kagi previously listed the sources they used in their search. It seems that theyāve now hidden that information on that page, seemingly contradictory to their ācommitment to transparency.ā
āA portion of your fee goes towards Elon Muskās xAI, of X/Twitter, to support Grok in their AI assistant. Indeed, you can simply not use this assistant, however all paying users are effectively subsidizing the cost of the Grok API calls. There is no way to opt-out of this.ā
A good walkthrough of everything about Kagi, including its claims about āanonymityā: https://ććŖć¦ć¹.com/doubting-your-favorite-web-search-engine/
So many people in this thread asking me what search engine they SHOULD use, so I made a thing:
https://axbom.me/notice/B6jG0feJudUb41auUi
@urlyman When considering Kagi one also needs to consider their ties to Yandex.
https://ioc.exchange/@troed/113311987220115248
āAt 5.02am on 31 March ā a Tuesday ā a US-Israeli airstrike hit the mosque. Four people were killed, and 26 wounded. And the Seyyed al-Shohada Library inside the mosque complex was completely obliterated.
The library held a sprawling collection of 21,000 books, including an archive of 6,000 rare manuscripts; historical documents; and theses. These were dedicated to Shia history and the life of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, who is revered as a symbol of resistance against oppression.
Most of these centuries-old texts had never been digitised. They existed nowhere else in the world. Irreplaceable history turned to ash.ā
āAccording to the libraryās records, at least 1,900 men and 2,200 women used the library every month. It was a place where parents brought young children on weekends, and where the cityās youth had affordable access to learning outside an overstretched school system. An annual membership and library card cost about $1.50.ā
From the first issue of The Atlas.
https://www.theatlasnewspaper.org
@rkaj Tusen tack fƶr feedback Rasmus! Och jƤtteroligt att du lyssnade. Kanske jobbdatorn inte tillƄter WebRTC per default?
Ja jag har funderat lite pĆ„ det dƤr om frekvensen, och om jag ska kƶra en kort recap i bƶrjan - men det tar fƶrstĆ„s tid som jag sannolikt inte har. Vi fĆ„r se hur det blir helt enkelt! š