It seems to me that we've actually got a potential alternative for the big search engines in YaCy. It's not perfect, but it's open and it's distributed so if you don't think a site that should be getting indexed is in there you can point the crawler at it yourself.
Another neat thing you can do with YaCy is to point to it as your proxy, so all your traffic goes through it and it'll automatically crawl any pages you visit. Even if you don't want to do that though, you can point it at your favorite websites (particularly ones you don't think are getting views through sites like google) and it'll just start crawling through. You can set it to follow links and just crawl through the Internet.
The most important thing right now is that I only see between 100-300 nodes on the network at any one time. This suggests to me that there's a real chance to boost this system with not a lot of users. Add another 300 nodes with people actively adding stuff that's not "allowed" on google et al., and it becomes an engine that's massively useful. I've only been running and crawling for one week at a very low utilization, and I've got 2.6 million pages crawled, which is 0.13% of all the pages available on YaCy. Imagine how quickly a few hundred of us could fill the engine with all kinds of cool content, and it'd be distributed so it wouldn't be something any one person can break.
And for people who like the idea but don't want to give up their other search engines, yacy is an option in searx as well, so it can be just one of many search engines your search engine is looking at.
Another neat thing you can do with YaCy is to point to it as your proxy, so all your traffic goes through it and it'll automatically crawl any pages you visit. Even if you don't want to do that though, you can point it at your favorite websites (particularly ones you don't think are getting views through sites like google) and it'll just start crawling through. You can set it to follow links and just crawl through the Internet.
The most important thing right now is that I only see between 100-300 nodes on the network at any one time. This suggests to me that there's a real chance to boost this system with not a lot of users. Add another 300 nodes with people actively adding stuff that's not "allowed" on google et al., and it becomes an engine that's massively useful. I've only been running and crawling for one week at a very low utilization, and I've got 2.6 million pages crawled, which is 0.13% of all the pages available on YaCy. Imagine how quickly a few hundred of us could fill the engine with all kinds of cool content, and it'd be distributed so it wouldn't be something any one person can break.
And for people who like the idea but don't want to give up their other search engines, yacy is an option in searx as well, so it can be just one of many search engines your search engine is looking at.
I wonder, if Donald Trump created a national Pork day and it happened to land on Islamic Eid al-Fitr which lands on a different day of the Gregorian calendar each year, would these people be siding with Donald Trump?
I always tip well because it's just good karma, but it's still sort of a dumb bullshit thing they managed to set up.
At some point one group of bosses managed to convince people to pay their people for them separately. It's win/win for the bosses. They don't need to even pay their people minimum wage, and they can advertise bullshit prices that aren't actually the price you pay for a thing.
Imagine if we just started doing that everywhere -- water treatment plants stop paying their people and you're expected to pay 20% of your water bill to them. Car dealerships stop paying their salesmen and you're expected to pay another 20% on top of the price of your car. You're at the grocery store and they stop paying cashiers and you're expected to give another 20%.
It gets pretty absurd pretty quickly, and it isn't like you get more control over the person for paying the bulk of their wage -- if it comes up as a battle between the customer and the boss, the boss still wins because of that 2 bucks an hour they're paying.
All that being said, you can't act as if the world is what you'd like it to be, you need to act as if the world is what it is, and it's a dick move not to pay your server just because you think their boss should be and they're not.
At some point one group of bosses managed to convince people to pay their people for them separately. It's win/win for the bosses. They don't need to even pay their people minimum wage, and they can advertise bullshit prices that aren't actually the price you pay for a thing.
Imagine if we just started doing that everywhere -- water treatment plants stop paying their people and you're expected to pay 20% of your water bill to them. Car dealerships stop paying their salesmen and you're expected to pay another 20% on top of the price of your car. You're at the grocery store and they stop paying cashiers and you're expected to give another 20%.
It gets pretty absurd pretty quickly, and it isn't like you get more control over the person for paying the bulk of their wage -- if it comes up as a battle between the customer and the boss, the boss still wins because of that 2 bucks an hour they're paying.
All that being said, you can't act as if the world is what you'd like it to be, you need to act as if the world is what it is, and it's a dick move not to pay your server just because you think their boss should be and they're not.
The business world doesn't hate government, they love the fact that they can get somebody with guns to take away your money and just hand it to them.
Pretty much every one of the richest people on Earth right now got that way through this method. And most of them are happily advocating for more government. Why not?
Pretty much every one of the richest people on Earth right now got that way through this method. And most of them are happily advocating for more government. Why not?
I got a Lenovo 11e and was shocked at how good it was but the motherboard died (it was a refurb that cost way too little so that's just a risk you take). Since then I think my dad bought like four of them.
They're rugged, made for the educational market, so as long as you don't get something electronic like mine did they're pretty bulletproof.
They're rugged, made for the educational market, so as long as you don't get something electronic like mine did they're pretty bulletproof.
I've got debian sid running on a positively ancient chromebook with a 4 core arm32 processor. It isn't great now, but it's just fine for basic travel.
"Nobody will understand 'I have a giant spoon so I can have a lot of ice cream and it's still a spoonfull' if vine is shut down"
It's a good thing she's recognized as a mage, because she'll never be a comedian.
It's a good thing she's recognized as a mage, because she'll never be a comedian.
What are the odds, we covered the death an resurrection of Jesus in the kids bible on Friday. Giant book and we happen to read those three pages on this weekend of all weekends.
I guess the odds are about 1 in 26, now that I think about it...
I guess the odds are about 1 in 26, now that I think about it...
I don't think even now I necessarily have an understanding of either the Bible or atlas shrugged that's strong enough to say either way.
It's embarrassing how long it took me to realize what you're saying here. Decades.
Even the highest priests typically say quite definitively, "this isn't literal, of course this didn't happen" which changes everything imo.
Even the highest priests typically say quite definitively, "this isn't literal, of course this didn't happen" which changes everything imo.
I hear if he says in that jail cell more than 30 days he can just call it his home. :p
Honestly, I thought that I had been exposed to a lot of the Bible through cultural osmosis myself, but going through the children's Bible (a work that is appropriate for my level of intellect), I'm surprised at how little I actually knew. Of course there were certain portions there I was highly informed about, but their entire books I didn't even know existed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg0SmgoSMg4
I imagine this is what people who follow my posts think it's like sometimes...
I imagine this is what people who follow my posts think it's like sometimes...
Sort of as an aside, there's a lot of talk about deontological ethics vs. teleological ethics, and the idea that you should only be responsible for actions that have negative consequences, but I think this is a good example where there is an argument to be made that some rules should just be followed and it is morally wrong to break them whether there's a negative outcome this time or not.
Nothing happened, but it definitely could have, and then you can't undo the damage.
Nothing happened, but it definitely could have, and then you can't undo the damage.
"They say once you get rich women can't keep their hands off of you especially once you're in the hottub, but I just haven't found that. don't know why."
One thing that's mildly annoying is that minds comments don't throw notifications, so if you're not seeing as many replies as you'd expect that's why. You could probably increase the engagement on fediverse posts by tagging the person you're replying to.