Are you trying to suggest that Ukrainians are extremists here? I mean seriously, what makes you think the country has the internet bandwidth to compete with what Twitter has available? For that matter, what makes you think they would have TIME for such things when Trump’s master is dropping bombs on them?

And as usual, they always have to bury something in it that will directly hurt people.

even though those people are an extremely loud minority Heh sounds like you’re describing MAGA

I see they’ve deleted old user accounts. Oh well, I was briefly curious but that’s gone now.

Funny thing, I just looked this up this morning. Texas is actually 47% Democrat and 38% Republican, but their gerrymandering is controlled by the GOP and drawn to hugely suppress the Dem vote. They are basically the poster child for suppressing the will of the voters.

Yeah? OK well it’s certainly worth taking a closer look at, and I was also doing some reading on Yacy. I’ve run one in the past called mnogosearch, with a lot of customization, but it would be nice to get into a community project like this.

But is it decentralized? Do the results from multiple spiders get added to give everyone the same quality searches or do I need to scan the whole internet myself?

[edit] I was looking at this earlier and couldn’t find the info. Started searching again just now and found it immediately… of course… (The answer is YES)

Yep, that’s exactly what I was looking at (https://github.com/searx/searx). As I said, it was a QUICK dive but the wording was enough to make me shy away from it. For all the years I’ve been running servers, I won’t put up anything that requires the latest/greatest of any code because that’s where about 90% of the zero-days seem to come from. Almost all the big ones I’ve seen in the last few years where things that made me panic until I realized that oh, if your updates are more than a year old then none of this affects you. And the one that DID affect me had already been updated through a security release.

Right? I mean I’m still lamenting the loss of slider keyboards, typing on a screen is so damn unreliable that I was forced to turn on the auto-correction, which itself is highly unreliable and constantly changing real words while failing to fix the words where I hit a number instead of a letter (the word “9f” gets typed a LOT!). I use my phone for phone calls and sending texts, with a secondary usage as a GPS in my truck. If it can’t perform one of three basic tasks then what good is it?

I just did a quick dive into this and have some concerns. SearX appears to no longer be maintained and was last updated three years ago. SearXNG was forked to use more recent libraries but there were concerns that those are not always stable or fully vetted. There were also concerns that SearXNG did not follow the same concerns for user privacy. It’s a shame that SearX shut down, that one actually sounds like a project I would have jumped on.

I upgraded to a Sony Xperia XZ2 compact last year. It has a 5" screen and decent capabilities, the only down side is it doesn’t support 5G. For a phone that’s over 5 years old, it’s probably the most recent usable phone available which actually fits in my pocket.

Seriously, don’t show me a damn tablet computer and try to sell it to me as a mobile phone. If you can’t make a compact phone then you’re not really advancing the technology, are you?

It could be “3D” 2.0 as well.

What, you mean just because Trump is Putin’s lap dog? Or because Gabbard is now head of Intelligence?

Yeah you’re probably right. Reality is a foreign concept to these people.

Looks like the majority of the storage facilities are in Red states. Even though some are near me, I feel like saying screw it, let them stay unmonitored and lets see what blows up. A blunder of that magnitude would shake up even the most die-hard MAGAt.

Why would that have any affect on heart attacks? That reminds me of people saying that changing the clocks leads to more car wrecks when it’s just really showing how many people are unable to drive in the dark.

Trump’s ratings are going to fall like a rock as his supporters realize how much his policies are hurting them directly. I saw a post over the weekend from a lady screeching that her package from Temu was being held for a $42 tariff payment but Trump told her tariffs wouldn’t affect Americans… Welcome to the “find out” phase, idiot.

The numbers on the clock have magical powers as far as what time I am expected to report to work. Most people do not start work at 4:30am when the sun come up (if you do NOT change the clocks), so that would mean more hours of the day lost. If you have the energy to get up early and do things for work, great for you, but the rest of us sleep until the alarm and use that extra evening hour to get things done. Now it’s easy to say 50% of the population is wrong when we look at the current administration, but having the sub come up at 4:30am doesn’t really help you and for most people it means trying to get those last couple hours of sleep while the sun is shining in your eyes. What you’re suggesting is useful for a small handful of people in exchange for fewer hours of good rest for the majority of the population.

Sure thing, we’ll just move everyone to permanent DST because that makes the most sense and causes the least amount of problems…

Or did you think we were going to switch everyone OFF of DST because that’s your personal preference?

Yeah I’ve seen some bits about that, they were looking into how Musk was interfering with the Ukraine war I think?