"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.

It's called #MarginaliaSearch.

It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.

What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.

The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.

There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.

It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every #searchengine now shows you the same twelve #monetizedpages."

marginalia-search.com/

Staff at the Eiffel Tower are on strike.

A Hindu religious group booked for a private tour demanded that female staff were "set aside" during their visit. Management complied.

"As ‌the delegation passed ⁠through, women were asked to leave their workstations so that men could take their places."

Hopefully the strike will help management realise that misogyny and religious fanaticism should never be allowed to infect their workplace again.

nzherald.co.nz/world/strike-sh

#Paris #Eiffel #Hindu

docker compose up up down down left right left right b a start

@misty Did I mention our oven had an RF chip in it that was broadcasting an open wifi network with the password in the SSID, 24/7, and the only way to turn it off is to either sign up for an LG account and use "the app", or just... take your wall mounted oven out of the wall, open up the casing, remove more casing, then remove even more casing, and then you rip that stupid chip out?

Feels extremely weird that my wife had to mod our TV so it would stop exfiltrating all our data. At least it's possible...

the desire to be the Operator, in the control room, at the controls, airliner cockpit, power plant, studio with racks of synthesizers, devices all around you, screens showing you the latest updates, in the lain nest where you have assembled the computers routers servers boxen: it masquerades as a fantasy of control where you are powerful at the center, but it is actually a fantasy of comfort where the machines surround you like a blanket and their screens and buttons are what command your action

transitioning is easy as a dev, it's just about:
- naming things (yourself/yourselves)
- cache invalidation (telling ppl you changed identity)

i was trying to make a little tiling eggbug pattern for my pants and i stumbled into a very fun setting

A more skilled musician than me would just call it microtonal and play something really cool on it

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That feeling when you're visiting your brother and his family and trying to play something on his child's toy xylophone and the A-bar is 50 cents off, *unplayable*

I followed one of those lentil curry recipes and what I learned is that sambal oelek (which is spelled weird because of the Dutch apparently) is a good ingredient and coconut milk is not

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TIL that windows explorer can mount ISO files

INTRODUCING: “Let’s Talk About Stuff,” a brand new weekly show from Sarah Zedig where we watch movies and talk about the movies that we watch! first up, the 1965 gay awakening film Winter Kept Us Warm.

give it a watch, share with your friends, and let me know what you think in the comments!

youtu.be/M_OMMHVZX48

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