Seirdy

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by Seirdy 6y ago
Plain text or unformatted email, in my experience, is more likely to have come from an actual person who genuinely wants to send me something. Heavily formatted emails optimized for user manipulation ("engagement") are typically s
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What were the privacy implications of these tests? Did your findings that email-savvy users were insignificant account for the fact that this subset of users probably disabled any email tracking in the first place? I'm finding that tec
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We have asterisks for emphasis , attachments for screenshots, and bulleted lists for a subset of tables. More complex tables and formatting probably work better in an attachment; the message body should be clear, concise, and render correct
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"Free" antivirus software, Windows 10 telemetry, Javascript, WeChat, WhatsApp, Google Chrome, Gmail, Facebook, and countless other software choices are used by millions of people today; that doesn't mean that feeling uncomfor
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Everything you described can be done with progressive enhancement. Only three engines exist that work well with JS; if we want our sites to not be dependent on behemoths like Google and Apple (Google is Mozilla's income source), we nee
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Email clients that for whatever reason allow sending HTML email typically default to sending multipart messages with a normal plain text version as well. Emails that are HTML-only are typically marketing or unsolicited noreply junk. I norma
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I collected a bunch in an article: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe... . HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26429942 I'd also be interested in
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A preferences menu that lets users select/specify Searx instances, similar to the existing preferences menus.
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Given how frequently Searx instances get banned by the search engines they use, it would be interesting to have a "meta-Searx" client that tries different Searx instances for the selected engines until none of the engines error ou
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Thanks for answering. > We have provided our results to multiple metasearch engines over the years and currently provide them to a number of people for various uses. Are you able to name any? Also: what (if any) are some "starting p
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Other collections: The big list of personal websites: http://biglist.terraaeon.com/ The directory for Search My Site: https://searchmysite.net/search/browse/ 10kb Club: https://10kbclub
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- Do you have plans to allow users to submit sitemaps/feeds/links? - What are some of your other favorite search engines and why? - Bigger engines like Google, Bing, Yandex, and even Gigablast are providers for other engines. Does
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Soft agree. Going around people isn't always as borderline-sociopathic as people in this thread make it out to be. For example, the given solution for handling the process-obsessed is surprisingly non-toxic: encourage them to favor i
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by Seirdy 6y ago
> I really wish DDG would innovate on search, improve their own crawlers & indexing and then attack Google head on by comparing better results with the ad-ridden, SEO-flooded shit show that Google results have become. DuckDuckGo&#x27
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What's so risky about cp-ing config files as opposed to typing "COPY" or mounting a volume in a Dockerfile? If you use a distro like Debian you shouldn't be worried about breaking changes, especially if you're subsc
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Docker and its tightly coupled sibling programs amount to millions of lines of code. It took billions of dollars in funding to make. There's a reason it's classified as a PaaS. It is far more than a "layer on top of cgroups&q
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These things can also be solved by using distro packages and `cp`-ing config files. Docker introduces a ton of complexity into the stack. Using Docker to solve these problems is like hiring a construction company to build a birdhouse. Sure,
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> We care quite a lot about web standards and broad browser support at GitHub From [0]: > We design GitHub to support the latest web browsers. We support the current versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft Edge. Following &
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I'm getting an error message when trying to view the lists ("Something went wrong"); I've tried multiple browsers and devices. Trying to save it to the WayBack Machine didn't work either. I managed to archive a snap
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Don't forget the elves who turned out to actually enjoy slavery, and the girl fighting for their liberation essentially being labeled a "whiny SJW" after founding STEW. It's easy to make a series of tweets to look like a
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(Am author) Most "alternatives" to the big three search engines (Google, Bing, Yandex aka GBY) just proxy their results from GBY. I took a look at 30 non-meta search engines with their own crawlers/indexers to find actual alt
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The Future Will be Technical: A modular essay about our optimistic future(coolguy.website)
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A look at search engines with their own indexes(seirdy.one)
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Linux users have platforms like Flatpak that sandbox applications to known directories, and have multiple "app store"-like implementations with colorful buttons to make the process look unintimidating and non-threatening. Another
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I've tried blogging, with mixed results from people on the other side of the fence. A lot of people are actually less likely to adopt something if I promote it since I'm "that guy" who only uses FLOSS and open platforms.
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(Comment adapted from one I made under the post itself) Whether or not the server-side code is visible isn't very important. There are two reasons why: 1. (Anti-Signal) Signal is a closed platform; users can't self-host a Signal s
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Even if a browser is FLOSS, I wouldn't say a user can truly "own" a browser any more than an absolute ruler can govern a country alone. Browser engines are complex beasts that have grown beyond what anyone can hope to underst
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This addon is basically just a Nicki Minaj or Doja Cat reference that probably took under an hour to write. Pretty much every large tech org lets employees make something fun every once in a while, partly to keep developers happy. The artic
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> I almost wonder if this could be done safely in a decentralized manner. Everyone runs a BitTorrent like service and when you make a request the swarm proxies it to a specific node who then serves the page back to you. > Under this s
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DuckDucGo's classic link results are verbatim from Bing (or sometimes Yandex instead). DuckDuckBot is only used to grab favicons and a subset of its rich results (instant answers, zero-click info). Don't take my word for it; you c

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