Technology

Duck it, we'll search it live

The thing that is hilarious about this is that DDG is powered by Bing. 😂

Check out yacy, its not well polished but at least it doesn't rely on major search engines afaik (p2p)

The problem with your own searxng instance is that your searches across other engines come from your IP address.

So if you're searching for something, everyone knows it's you using IP triangulation. Google then tracks you around the internet.

If that doesnt bother you, OK great.

Dude I don't even know what that is or what it does and I'm pretty sure most people don't either. It might be easy but what the heck even is it?

I have it installed in a docker container in Linux both as a search 3ngine for my local AI setup, and for regular browsing.

Setup and installation is a great use case for AI.

Go to Google gemini, and ask it to create a step by step guide to install a container with searxng, and how to allow searches from your browser(s). Make sure you tell gemini that you are a simple user, not a power user, so it shouldn't assume anything. Also ask it to make sure it shows you how to make the container autostart with the pc. Tell gemini that you want this in a step by step tutorial.

Should make it easy, as you can ask questions if you get stuck, or something doesn't work.

Last time I tried I had issues but it was quite a while ago. Do you know a good guide or something you can post?

I thought it meant changing your default search engine.

I never considered that it was an app.

We've come full-circle. I used to download .html pages so I could browse them while offline. Now websites install themselves so they can browse you while offline.

I "love" when the wrong technology is applied.

On the the dawn of the smartphones Mozilla tried to enter the space with an FirefoxOS and the pitch was that every app was just a website just more tightly integrated with the phone. The problem is that all the web stack is wonderfully resource hog and at the time phones were super underpowered running websites were not optimized in a browser that were not as optimized as today. So it was a terrible choice for the time being.

Other good one was Android early days. They choose Java as the default app environment and development. It kinda makes sense to use it if you want the same program to run on different platforms, the problem, again, it runs worst and with the underpowered devices of the time everything was a slog. And they doubled down on the mistake by using a garbage collector that doubled the memory usage of every app. The cherry on top, at least in hindsight is that arm was and still is the de facto Android plataform, greatly disminishing the advantage of using Java/JVM. And today Google enabled apps with native code optimized for specific plataforms, but everyone only care about ARM so of you try to run Android like in an Intel laptop a lot of apps are not compatible.

End of rant.

Too many people are brain hostages to the idea that apps do everything and you need an app for everything, even though most of the things are just websites. But all the apps are really doing is spying while they deliver their version of the website.

It's great it even has a toggle.

But I like that it has that toggle at least

Because:

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