when people say searx, i want to know… is it duckduckgo or google or both?

join diaspora and only post to private aspects.
better yet… host your own server.
otherwise… someone is going to have to hurry up and design a more private platform.

i’m thinking the mozilla version will be better maintained and have stuff added to it, in the future

buildings are designed to be closed. its a horrible design thats irreversibly invested upon.

fake activism button

dopamine button

speaking of the world…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatominae “kissing bugs”

paris,france has seemed to have been affected by bedbugs recently: BBC: Bedbug panic sweeps Paris as infestations soar before 2024 Olympics

how is nobody afraid of bedbugs?

im just overwhelmed by the endless flood of minor services that leach “a dollar here… a dollar there”. add them all up and they drain you dry.
skip some and you lose essential coverage. "just $2 more a month… i swear bro! "

the topics seem good. but posting to two coms is kinda spammy. as opposed to asking in one, then collect answers before asking for further additional responses in another.

better to keep track of a ton of torrents and seed the ones that go completely dead

us food safety gore

And cache

I think ping is this: https://m.slashdot.org/story/64339

It would be dfficult to keep all kinds of random things in an affordable database.

I’m more concerned about the meaning of life. Which, conveniently is 42.

webserver software can compress.
https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/web-server/compression/ .

If its just a game then why not run it in any old browser.
It doesnt matter much, in this case.

Not perfect:
But here are some ideas.

• reddit (tor)
• wikipedia (tor)
• certain niche direct sources (tor)

More ideal ideas:

• certain specific private source (maybe tor). Not reliable but high quality.
• large collection of raw links ( requires labor, skill. And yields imperfect results )
• searx ( mainly to share with friends and as a fallback. it is a pretty great premade metasearch engine when selfhosted)
• ready-to-go foss searchengine implementations. (Limited in scope, requires decent amount of “labor” and time. Requires setup phase and light maintaining. Extremely high quality results. Optionally invest money in various ways to supercharge. Perhaps recruit collaborators)

other stuff:

• creating private collections and bookmarks
• not using internet or using rarely or using in cautious way. Or not using www.
• focusing on distracting self with hands-on projects.

What am i actually using at this point? (Nothing is set up currently!).

• Sometimes i use tor 70% of the time. Sometimes i use tor 30% of the time.
• very frequently non www .
• duckduckgo when needed. [Often] without visiting the links
• niche sources (2, …)
• reddit

*this isnt perfect! but i think overall i think i dont spend much time traveling to websites for info.

Historically:

• searx
• searchengine
• dabble in scaling.

Future:

• selfhost
• scaling
• further isolation
• IRL
• other stuff. such as creating new solutions.

There is certainly room for immediate improvement here.
Im just lazy.

I dont need the internet as much as the internet needs me.

I hear people frequently say this.

Searx is basically a proxy. If you had an actual proxy… you would achieve the exact same benefits. Its good for making it difficult… or extremely difficult to tie a person’s real identity, directly to their search query.
Another thing that searx does is sends your query to google. This is not good for privacy. But sometimes it gives you additional results.

I dont think paying money is the answer. But it may make sense for some people in some cases.
For example: for someone who uses gmail… switching to protonmail is a huge leap. And donating money(or buying service) is a way to ensure that it remains sustainable and continues to grow.