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Another good episode. Iāll have to have a play with Searx.
Another search alternative that I keep hoping will one day have a new wave of excitement and development around it is Yacy. I love the decentralised nature of it but itās search results and interface need work.
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Itās a stool so both at the same time =)
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It may be worth noting that Duck Duck Goās Bang system doesnāt seem to anonymize your search. From their Duck Duck Goās page explaining ābangsā:
Remember, though, because your search is actually taking place on that other site, you are subject to that siteās policies, including its data collection practices.
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Good to know, I guess that part isnāt proxied.
Nice catch
Thanks, everyone, for another excellent episode. @jill_linuxgirl 's tour of her hardware treasures is always a treat, with no exception this time! Love the little laptop. I remember them from years ago. I imagine funding for the project ran out, which is a real pity.
Ohmygit.org sounds very handy indeed. I plan to play it 
Favourite joke of the week: Noah rescuing someone whoās stuck in vim 
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Been playing with OhMyGit. Itās pretty decent, except for there are no āhelpā options. And the instructions are occasionally very vague. Thereās a section Iām stuck on, and canāt figure out. The concept makes sense, but I canāt figure out how to actually pass the section. Which is more than a little frustrating.
Itās definitely worth playing with though. If you can figure out how to get past ārebasingā, let me knowā¦
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On the matter of privacy search engines. I also use duckduckgo most of the time. The fact that all we have is their word that theyāre respecting our privacy makes me nervous though. Itās not Open Source or encrypted in such a way we can verify what they do with our data. Thatās not good enough. Considering what we know about the NSA it seems possible that even if duckduckgo wanted to keep their word the government might have given them secret orders. Iām hoping to use something better in the future. Iāve played with Searx a bit and should probably explore it more.
edit: I think of duckduckgo as the Apple of search engines. They provide an unverifiable promise of privacy.
edit 2: Privacy aside. The authority over search results is a powerful thing.
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I think the reason we donāt have a superior example to point to is because making one is extremely hard.
That isnāt to say duckduckgo wouldnāt benefit from having things like warrant canaries and other improvements but creation of a 100% open infrastructure is quite a task in a climate thatās short on the kind of extreme talent it takes to pull something like that off. Something like Etherium or a derivative could do that kind of open computation but the devilās in the details especially if it needs to be free for all searches.
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