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lemmesay, 9 months ago

tons of alternatives.
search engines with independent indexes(i.e., not beholden to any big search engine):

• mojeek
• brave search(semi independent)
• kagi(semi independent)

meta-search engines(gets results from other search engines):

• startpage(google)
• duckduckgo(bing)
• qwant(bing)
• swisscows(bing)
• metager(multiple sources)
• searx(ng)(multiple sources, configurable by user)

I’m still missing a ton but this should give you an idea.

for more, see this interactive graph, or this Wikipedia list which includes other niche types of search engines as well.

I personally use mojeek(because of their independent index) with duckduckgo as a fallback.

lemmesay, 8 months ago

didn’t know about the page. thanks! and good to see you on Lemmy.

lemmesay, 8 months ago

I’ve come to the same terms.
other day I decided to open reddit.com and noticed that almost every other (re)post was from a bot. even the top comments were from bots.
since then I’ve added reddit to my growing blocklist.

I now spend more time on feeder, an RSS reader app.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

I never heard the acronym before.
also, you could say that in case of Aaron Swatrz too.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

thanks for explaining

lemmesay, 9 months ago

I understand your point, but those weren’t the words he said. though I don’t think that’s going to make a difference.

I like RMS for what he did(and is doing) for the free software community. I can also talk about some uncanny things about Gandhi, but that doesn’t make his contribution to the independence movement and his views on nonviolence any less relevant.

to me, a person should be seen in his entirety. because only fictional characters are without flaws.

lemmesay, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

you can read everything in great detail and with citations here if you have the bandwidth.

but I’m not sure if the commenter is mixing two unrelated accusations towards him.

stallman is known for his fixation on certain choice of words, which is the reason most people get him wrong. that’s why I shared the link to read his exact words and make up your mind by yourself.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

I agree with your point in spirit, but again, he didn’t say any such thing. I haven’t talked to him in person, so, I can only rely on internet to validate/refute those claims.

he is the public face of free software because others have their own terminologies(e.g.: open source championed by bruce perens and eric raymond), with which the GNU project disagrees.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

then the lore of Linyos Torvoltos would’ve been true :p

lemmesay, 8 months ago

average keepass enjoyer

lemmesay, 8 months ago

or just sync the file using syncthing or plain old rsync?

lemmesay, 9 months ago

> chad GNU/Linux respecting my preferences.
> only updates when I do sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade.
> finishes updating kernel and 150 packages in less than 5 minutes whilst I’m merging a pr.
> I close computer when I’m done, unaware of updates.
> open it up next day and it starts like nothing happened.
> mfw I read this post