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They call that shit "minimalist" but in reality it's just barely minimal.
Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet
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Golly Bo-Bolly
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The search engine MetaGer has now ceased free searching all because Yahoo terminated their contract for no damn reason. Suma-ev has lost all funding, current revenue, and ability to search crawl for free even with ads. Suma-ev now can't afford to have staff or even its physical office space anymore. MetaGer still exists but you have to pay $5.52 (5€) for (500) searches.
Sure the company saw the writing on the wall for trusting Big tech™©® and tried to go independent but it was too little too late.
Sure the company saw the writing on the wall for trusting Big tech™©® and tried to go independent but it was too little too late.
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Can't say I've heard of it.
Golly Bo-Bolly
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MetaGer was the privacy search engine I and other people chose for default search after DuckDuckGo got pozzed over geopolitics. This is yet another example of the Internet going lowercase.
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to me this looks like a fucking retarded company that had 28 years to branch into more than ONE contract* and they failed.
though it should be applauded how they managed to survive into 2024 on the coattails of yahoo - words that would better fit a scenario from 2000.
* or more likely, they ended up with one contract after 28 years but the end result is the same.
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I used it sometimes. Back to some mix of Brave, Bing, Yandex, and Google.
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Why not Kagi? Their search is nice and I like the custom ranking.
mr_negativity
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Tech companies are really trying hard to kill off free email and make it accessible only a web frontend only or a proprietary app.
Use to be if you buy a domain name you could get 5 mailboxes accessible via POP3, IMAP, and SMTP . First google shut down free email hosting and wants to charge $6/mo per address. Then a few years later the other domain registrars followed suit and started demanding the same pricing, even when they already doubled the registration fees.
You used to be able to get 5 email addresses from your ISP. Most of the ISPs have stopped offering email.
Most people these days will have a mandatory Google account and a mandatory Microsoft account to use their devices. It would be nice to use both of these accounts in the same email app. Wrong! Both Microsoft and Google have decided that IMAP, POP3, and SMTP passwords authentication is now insecure and decided that your email client must contain a fully operational web browser to get OAUTH2 tokens and handle the 2 factor authentication that will eventually become mandatory.
Host your own email then... VPS providers treat you with suspicion if you want port 25 open and you have to submit a request to open it. If you want to send email, you'd better be a system admin god to get all the DNS, SPF, DMARK, DKIM to work properly. Your VPS IP address is probably already banned by Microsoft and Google simply for being hosted by a VPS.
The future of email looks to be like this.... You will be allowed one, and one only email address per service, no alts allowed. This will constantly be enforced by 2 factor authentication, tied to your phone. Basic email access will be as tightly controlled as your banking apps. This great for data harvesting and identification of sources of wrongthink. No more giving away your spam email address away when ordering pizza online or joining that loyalty rewards program. They want that information tied to you as well. The goal is to be able to directly associate an email address to an exact person at all times. No deviation from this shall be allowed.
Use to be if you buy a domain name you could get 5 mailboxes accessible via POP3, IMAP, and SMTP . First google shut down free email hosting and wants to charge $6/mo per address. Then a few years later the other domain registrars followed suit and started demanding the same pricing, even when they already doubled the registration fees.
You used to be able to get 5 email addresses from your ISP. Most of the ISPs have stopped offering email.
Most people these days will have a mandatory Google account and a mandatory Microsoft account to use their devices. It would be nice to use both of these accounts in the same email app. Wrong! Both Microsoft and Google have decided that IMAP, POP3, and SMTP passwords authentication is now insecure and decided that your email client must contain a fully operational web browser to get OAUTH2 tokens and handle the 2 factor authentication that will eventually become mandatory.
Host your own email then... VPS providers treat you with suspicion if you want port 25 open and you have to submit a request to open it. If you want to send email, you'd better be a system admin god to get all the DNS, SPF, DMARK, DKIM to work properly. Your VPS IP address is probably already banned by Microsoft and Google simply for being hosted by a VPS.
The future of email looks to be like this.... You will be allowed one, and one only email address per service, no alts allowed. This will constantly be enforced by 2 factor authentication, tied to your phone. Basic email access will be as tightly controlled as your banking apps. This great for data harvesting and identification of sources of wrongthink. No more giving away your spam email address away when ordering pizza online or joining that loyalty rewards program. They want that information tied to you as well. The goal is to be able to directly associate an email address to an exact person at all times. No deviation from this shall be allowed.
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Look into managed webhosting, shit like Hetzner's cheapest option still gives you a hundred mailboxes. You could also just use Cockmail, the more serious Airmail domain usually isn't blacklisted.
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You know what I hate? Updates. Fuck updates.
Case and point? I just updated NoScript to version 11.4.38 and it fucking broke on me. Thank goodness I found an older version, 11.4.29, but now all my filters are reset. If you're using that extension, I suggest not downloading an update for it.
Similarly, I dodged a bullet with Firefox as I am only on version 127. If I updated to 128, I would be exposed to a new built-in backdoor for advertisers.
Never fucking update anything, you're just asking for trouble unless you know exactly what the update is for. This is why any piece of software that does not let me disable updates or even asks me on startup if I want an update pisses me off, much like Firefox does(I don't know if there is a way to disable that).
Case and point? I just updated NoScript to version 11.4.38 and it fucking broke on me. Thank goodness I found an older version, 11.4.29, but now all my filters are reset. If you're using that extension, I suggest not downloading an update for it.
Similarly, I dodged a bullet with Firefox as I am only on version 127. If I updated to 128, I would be exposed to a new built-in backdoor for advertisers.
Never fucking update anything, you're just asking for trouble unless you know exactly what the update is for. This is why any piece of software that does not let me disable updates or even asks me on startup if I want an update pisses me off, much like Firefox does(I don't know if there is a way to disable that).
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If the google money ever stops, I expect more of this kind of fuckery.
jipjap
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Maybe if you're a macos user who's willing to drop $60 a year on a fucking search engine. Ffs I could selfhost searx or yacy for less at that point.
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Lately it seems like there's this acceleration of websites going very latest browser. Before that, as long as the browser was close enough, a site could work fine. But now, unless you use the latest browsers, ever-increasing number of sites are becoming unusable.
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IDK man I treat it like a work expense. Search is integral to my type of work and Kagi consistently gives me better results and a better UX than google, bing, duckduckgo, and even self-hosted searx. I'd say it saves me >15 mins a month, so it's a net-gain for me. Same deal with Copilot.
jipjap
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Fair enough, but the price is just rough. 60 USD for just 300 searches. That's just a lot. I can even see the appeal of the 300 for the AI services, and I understand the rationale for a commercial search engine, but that implies that Kagi actually will operate in your interest. People treat Apple's premium the same way, but consider the reality of Apple's products: they're arguably just as exploitative and underhanded as that of other vendors. Take for example the Indian contractors who found one Apple customers nudes and posted it to her Facebook account. And how blatantly insecure macOS is. Just as invasive and just as disrespectful. And yet, because of the branding, people love to pretend like that isn't the case. I know Perplexity's pro plan is 240, so maybe the extra 60 isn't too bad for a company that ostensibly won't extract you for all your data and presumably fuck you over in other ways. But, man... I just get bad vibes. Just like all those right-wing grifters who signal so hard that they're not like Google, but whose business model is fundamentally the same as that of everyone else.
And it's not like you're investing in free software that will help other people. Say what you will about Purism, but the MNT Reform wouldn't be a thing without them. And Phosh, too.
A friend of mine had a light phone 2 and I don't think I've had a person in our friend group who was more fucked with than ever. He's had it for a couple years and that piece of shit has given more problems just trying to call the bastard. Not only that but he just uses his laptop to brows Instagram and YouTube. He eventually dropped it in water and it instantly died and decided to go back to his iphone 10. One main problem (granted could have been avoided with more planning) was we got invited to a concert and he had the tickets on his email that needed Ticketmaster, but he can't access his email on his shit phone so we spent the opening act just trying to access everything on my phone.
He's been talking about spending almost EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS for the light phone 3. Listen "I use arch btw" w/ lineageos on a pixel and I love muh minimalism but I would rather figure out how to get a pi zero 2 w working with a PiTalk and spam chatgtp just to get the app working than spend that much
Idk may be biased due to the big price tag underwhelming perf. and bad experiences but that phone just ain't it for me chief
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The whole point of the light phone is to detach yourself from the online world as much as possible. It's not meant to be used like a normal smartphone. It's basically a featurephone. Your friend needs corrective surgery to remove his head from his arse.
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whats that image on the left there...?