Deebster

Just a heads up: not all plants like this because the tannic acid can make the soil too acidic for them.

As I was reading the article, I was thinking how glad I was that I switched - I am on the yearly plan now because I’m not going back to “free” search engines.

He always mysteriously gets frail and feeble-minded when it’s time for him to have to testify in court. Once that’s over his memory magically returns to him and he goes back to his mafia don mode.

There was a hack in 2011 where The Sun’s website claimed Murdoch was dead.

https://www.example.com/(.*)|https://archive.today/search/?q=https://www.example.com/$1

This takes you to the search results so it’s an extra click to get to the actual page.

My actual regex is a bit more complicated since it deals with multiple domains but that’s the gist.

I’ve been using Kagi for two months and I’m loving it - the ability to control your results is amazing. Some things I do:

• remove or downrate things like pinterest and w3schools from my results
• rewrite www.reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/*
• rewrite to send some sources through archive.today or similar to break paywalls
• rewrite to set the language of some sites that GeoIP my location but ignore my language headers

Also, having keyboard controls - like Google used to have - is so welcome, and their AI summarisation tools are actually useful too.

What’s this easy fix then? Just a lower number? That will just mean more publishers.

AI detection tools don’t work, and humans aren’t much better, unless they’re subject experts. How do we stop AI books?

The article mentions that Hurd is also a recursive acronym, but doesn’t go into any more details.

After looking it up on Wikipedia, I see why not:

It’s time [to] explain the meaning of “Hurd”. “Hurd” stands for “Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons”. And, then, “Hird” stands for “Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth”. We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

I can only answer the first part: .jxl

• PDA: I loved my Palm Pilot and I can still write using that script (was quite nice when I noticed my Android keyboard supported it)

• Raspberry Pi: this feels weird to be on this list! I still have one in the living room running Kodi

• No to the others, although I did have one of these beauties:

Alan Schaaf created Imgur while he was at uni and he never worked for Reddit, but I believe it was made for Reddit primarily (Reddit didn’t support uploading images until 2016).

Reddit hardly came up with that thermometer-style fundraising display; it’s older then the internet.

I just tried to decode that acronym for a bit too: “mystery kanban bunny haired boss”? He’s a tech YouTuber.

Yeah, I wasn’t arguing, just thinking out loud too. I think the whole decentralised aspect of the fediverse means that ownership has to have a cryptographic answer because there’s no central source of truth that everyone can agree on.

I think moving accounts is a little easier than you think, apart from who gets to say that something should move. It’d be better to have a “pull” than something like the “push” solution that currently exists on Mastodon - there you can forward an account to a new place, as long as the old instance exists and cooperates (big ifs).

I’m mostly thinking about moving accounts (+ communities) in the case of when an instance suddenly vanishes.

Posts and comments have a canonical URL (i.e. the original submission’s URL that’s linked to via the Fediverse pentagram), so that can be used as a foreign key when comparing.

I think identify claiming would need to have been designed into the original spec with something like a public/private key for account ownership to allow moving of related data in a safe way, or e.g. editing a post from a different instance than originally posted it.

I’m really glad they don’t! There’s so many ways to ask for a link to open in a new tab, but it’s much harder to make links open in the same tab once target=_blank is set.

And no upvotes, because it’s obviously a stupid, unworkable idea.

What are your new predictions, oh time wizard?