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Zworf

@Zworf@beehaw.org

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Zworf , to Technology in Low tech DHCP

Yeah me too. Drinking way way way too much. Playing games in the middle of the night. Seeing weird stuff in other tents like a fullblown orgy. Fun competitions. I really miss it.

Zworf , to Technology in Low tech DHCP

Wow..

I remember in 1993 my uni had no uplink. It was UUCP only (so just polled mail). In 1994 we got an uplink which was 256kbit shared between all sites. Luckily it came in to our facility first (the IT/Tech branch) and was cascaded further so we basically used it all 😜

Zworf , (edited ) to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."

Lol. I typed the name of my hometown and the two first results were escort sites from that area.

I mean, either it knows me really well and their privacy claims are wrong 🤭 Or it has a funny way of prioritising indexes.

Zworf , to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."

On the other hand, it doesn't really matter so much anymore.

LLM is the new search. I can ask it the actual question I have and it will give me the answer. If it's not exactly what I need I can ask it to specify further.

Contrast that with a search engine that just gives me a ton of bookmarks to sift through to see if they actually might answer my question or are just clickbait.

Of course there's still some times when you need search, like when you need to find an actual website, or when you need a source reference. But really the need for me is greatly reduced now.

Zworf , to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."

Isn't that exactly what the "weight" in searXNG does?

Zworf , to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."

TIL of this. Thanks.

Zworf , (edited ) to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."

10 bucks is too much though for a search engine, at least for me. Especially now that I use LLMs to replace most of the usecases of web searches.

I never used Google much anyway the last few years, I use duckduckgo which isn't quite as bad as google is now. Yeah I know it's just microsoft bling with a lick of paint but they didn't enshittify as much as google. But $10 + VAT is just a lot of money in Spain.

Maybe I'll try the $5 plan though, I never come even close to 300 searches a month anyway.

Edit: SearXNG sounds much better actually, thanks!! <3

Edit2: I installed SearXNG and love it <3 Really thanks for the tips here.

Zworf , to Technology in Low tech DHCP

Oh yeah The Party was another big one. Probably gone by now too?

Zworf , to Technology in Low tech DHCP

Haha this is literally how we used to deal with this at CampZone, a huge LAN party, back in the mid-2000s.

At later editions they just enabled DHCP on the network, I think they didn't at first because they wanted to be independent of DHCP servers. Early editions even had a negligible internet uplink (after all, it was a LAN party). Though later ones had faster uplinks than the thousands of participants could fill.

Zworf , to Technology in It’s time for a hard reset on notifications

On Android apps typically have their push notifications divided into different types and can almost always turn off the marketing notifications for an app while leaving the important ones on.

Oh, iOS doesn't have this? I didn't realise. Android has had this for a good few releases now and I love that.

Zworf , to Technology in Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news

I'd take a lower-priced plan with limited listening time. They're getting too expensive for the few hours a month I use it. If they bump it up more I will quit for sure.

The only reason I still use them is the qt-spotify third party client. None of the other services work on my OS (they all need DRM on the browser or other nastiness I don't have).

Zworf , to Technology in It’s time for a hard reset on notifications

Yeah but that's really their problem. I mean, the OS literally asks them to allow it. What more can you do?

Zworf , (edited ) to Technology in It’s time for a hard reset on notifications

I don't really have any issues with it. Samsung has very fine-grained controls and most apps I simply don't grant notification permissions at all. Also I put every single chat group in Whatsapp, Telegram etc on Mute by default which helps a lot against overload.

By the way, I give it a year or so by when phones can run a local AI to automatically filter the notifications you're interested in.

Zworf , to Technology in Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar

It's a useful feature but it doesn't need space on my taskbar or a special button on my keyboard. That's just marketing BS. The same as with the huge search bar, because I can just press the start button and start typing and it does the same.

Unfortunately Microsoft is incredibly bad at marketing. They generally succeed only at pissing users off. Now they're doing the same again with copilot and dumping a ton of totally different products under the same name.

Zworf , to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

Good. I hope people will move away from it soon. I hate Discord for banning third-party clients and datamining my system for installed apps. So I've never really used it.

It does mean I'm excluded from some FOSS projects' support like Home Assistant but to hell with that :P

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