Seirdy

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by Seirdy 5y ago
I offset these impacts by actively avoiding brands I recognize from unsolicited ads, and I encourage everyone to do the same.
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by Seirdy 5y ago
https://seirdy.one/ Seems like a really simple site that uses a mix of browser defaults with light CSS enhancements, but I put about 13k words of thought into it: https://seirdy.one/2020/11/23&#x2F
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I'd pick Graphene over Calyx on privacy and security grounds, and Lineage over Calyx on device support or tweakability grounds. Graphene is honestly ahead on the security and privacy front. MicroG requires very strong privileges and we
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by Seirdy 5y ago
They do have their own index, Teclis. You can use it independently: https://teclis.com/ The "non-commercial" lens in Kagi is mostly powered by Teclis, and the main SERPs include some non-commercial lens results mi
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by Seirdy 5y ago
How can users be sure that "results" aren't sponsored? I imagine that whoever runs such a service would get hounded by paid placement opportunities if it takes off. A similar issue plagues browser extension devs.
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by Seirdy 5y ago
A few more I found: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe... I recommend Teclis, Wiby, Kagi's "non-commercial" lens (mostly powered by Teclis), and and Gnomit (old result
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Searx and SearxNG support a few of these, but instances get blocked and unblocked left and right. eTools is a metasearch engine that uses commercial APIs for its search providers, so it does not get blocked. However, each search is a bit ex
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Are there any non-Apple ARM laptops that can reliably run "normal" Linux distros (e.g. Fedora, Alpine, Debian derivatives)? Currently the only options on my radar are the Pinebook (and Pinebook Pro) and MNT Reform.
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Echoing this. All the services on my servers (Web, Gemini, Matrix, Fediverse servers and a CSP violations collector) are statically-linked binaries running in sandboxed chroots, with no access to the outside filesystem except a subdir of my
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I think Mojeek is a better alternative "general" engine than Brave because Brave's ranking algorithm was optimized against Google SERPs (back when it was called Cliqz), making many SERPs too similar to Google's. Kagi use
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Bing powers a host of other engines. Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, most of Qwant, AOL, the web results from Windows Search, Ecosia, and others are all dependent on Bing's search APIs. If you use a Google alternative, there's a good chance it
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Web browsers are not bulletproof. Their sandboxing implementations depend on OS features, which vary. Check a CVE database for your favorite browser and you'll find plenty of historic holes to dig through. WebGL is one of the biggest f
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by Seirdy 5y ago
> Yes, any structured data could definitely help improve the results Which syntaxes and vocabularies do you prefer? microformats, as well as schema.org vocabs represented Microdata or JSON-LD, seem to be the most common acc to the latest
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Oh boy, I have too many questions. I'd appreciate any answers you're able/willing to give: 1. Do you have any plans to support the parsing of any additional metadata (e.g. semantic HTML, microformats, schema.org structured da
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Really good stuff. You might want to explain some of this on the website.
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Some of these (Andi, nee Lazyweb; You; SwissCows) are Bing proxies. Gnod is a search launcher, not an engine unto itself. Many more installable engines are available at https://mycroftproject.com as OpenSearch XML plugins, compa
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I'm curious as to which reasons/tradeoffs were involved in the decision to use harmonic centrality, if you wouldn't mind sharing.
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I discovered Alexandria a month ago and was shocked by the quality of its results; while it's no Google/Bing replacement, it was leagues ahead of most other independent engines I'd collected and monitored for over a year[0].
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Kagi's "noncommercial" lens, search.marginalia.nu, and engines that don't parse JS (e.g. Mojeek) can add some variety. Another thing I like doing is adding phrases like "creative commons" to already-long querie
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I've been keeping my eye on You.com, tracking a few SERPs over time compared to other Bing- and Google-based engines. So far, the results don't seem independent. Try comparing results with a Bing-based engine (e.g. DuckDuckGo) or
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I listed a bunch over at https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe... , and I'm always adding more. I first discovered Alexandria in early February: https://git.sr.ht/~s
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by Seirdy 5y ago
DDG's organic link results are from Bing, sans personalization. DuckDuckGo advertises using "over 400 sources", which means that at least 399 sources only power infoboxes ("instant answers") and non-generalist searc
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I've heard from other people who run engines (Right Dao, Gigablast) that this is a major problem; Common Crawl does look helpful, but it's not continuously updated. FWIW, Right Dao uses Wikipedia as a starting point for crawling.
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by Seirdy 5y ago
SearX and Searxng are the most common options, but instances often get blocked by the engines they use. Users need to switch between instances quite often. eTools.ch uses commercial APIs so it doesn't get blocked, but it might block yo
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I generally find that sites like SO, GFG, etc. often play the role of "Reading the Docs as a Service". I prefer using them only after official documentation or specifications fail me. When I want an opinionated answer, I just ping
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by Seirdy 5y ago
> I'm curious how people evaluate them quickly. To paint with a broad brush, I look at three criteria: 1. Infoboxes ("instant answers") should focus on site previews rather than trying to intelligently answer my question.
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Tor supports many kinds of bridges to serve as unlisted "inproxies" to enter the Tor network in an environment that blocks Tor.
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The Decline of Usability(datagubbe.se)
6 points by Seirdy 5y ago|1 comments
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Ko-fi and Liberapay are platforms that don't take fees. Buy me a Coffee is a popular choice for one-off donations.
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by Seirdy 5y ago
My feedback: I think what you're doing with Breeze seems interesting, but the value-add of making it a commercial offering isn't clear; what does it offer that anyone else can't easily replicate with Google Custom Search? I&

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