Maybe the silent majority think SNC-Lavalin was a bigger deal than the Liberal party did, eh, Justin? Perhaps doing fuck-all about that and twisting out of the affair wasn’t the winning strategy you though it was, and people are getting sick of some corrupt bullshit like this happening in every Liberal administration.

Having pulled a toilet out to fix something more than once, the bathtub is exactly where you want to put it while you work.

Ironic.

That reasoning is pretty specious.

Yah, nobody with 5 minutes of KVM under their belt would bother with Virtualbox.

What amazes me is her own child is trans.

Burn Snap out of there and I’m in.

Edit: looks like they’re not putting much towards snaps, it’s mostly Flatpak and systemd-sysext. I’m good with that.

Because I don’t want a direct link to payment information and my search history stored and sold later.

Defaults are working fine, I might have added one or two.

I was a sysadmin with some Linux usage in 1998, does that count?

Not if it runs the queries it sends out via a VPN where it mingles with thousands of other requests. An API call doesn’t have the disadvantages of browser fingerprinting, cookies, etc that are used to build a background of a user browsing to your search engine and track their searches. Also, there is no feedback to the search engine about which result you choose to use. If you allow outside users, it would further muddy the waters.

Ideally, you’d have it run random searches when not being used to further obfuscate the source.

Yes, that’s the purpose of the VPN. It’s out there mixed in with everyone else that’s using that exit node.

Honestly, it’s not too much of a concern to me, I’m not doing anything illegal or naughty, it’s just making sure I’m not part of the dataset.

Its all calls to other engines, that you can choose and tune. So its making those calls and filtering out shit like AI results, and then ranking it to return back to you. Seems to do a good job.

Self host it, it’s nothing to set up.

Been rocking self-hosted Searxng for the last 3 weeks now as my default search engine; it’s as good or better than DDG and certainly better than Google. Results I need are usually within the first three items, no extraneous shit.

I thought I’d just try it out, but it’s staying. The ability to tune the background engines is awesome. My search history is private (though I wasn’t that worried about DDG, there was no way in fuck I was using Kagi) since it’s running it’s searches via a VPN and returning me results locally.

I upvoted this because I hate it.

Just playing a Collective Soul compilation on repeat does the same for me.

This is cool too, though.

Plasma.

When I try Gnome, within a couple minutes I encounter the Save dialog that defaults the cursor to the Search field instead of the Filename field, and the top of my head goes spinning across the room, and I uninstall it.

The ease of updating and installing new software is starting to get me down. I’ve started hiring a neighbor to come over and slap me across the face for minor updates, and vigorously kick me in the balls when I do a full version upgrade.

Carry it printed on a sign behind your back until he pops up, then whip it out after the first question. Then walk away after he’s read it, while conspicuously taking handwritten notes and looking back over your shoulder.