evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.

It's called #MarginaliaSearch.

It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.

What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.

The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.

There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.

It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every #searchengine now shows you the same twelve #monetizedpages."

https://marginalia-search.com/

as always with any claims around LLMs, what you need to ask is: where is it?

and I’m not talking about confident LLM output or a flood of confident CVEs or a confident changelog or a confident gist or even some code you’re very confident is correct because the LLM said so

is the software you’re using right now materially better or worse, in your lived experience?

if we’re going to get left behind without LLMs, shouldn’t it have gotten incredibly good ridiculously quickly? why didn’t it? why is it worse now than it was before?

why do all these companies that are all-in on these frontier models keep having incredibly embarrassing security incidents? shouldn’t the frontier models fix that?

#penguins #linux #humor

@mothninja

@urlyman

FWIW, my pc is almost 11 years old and has had no upgrades since I built it. High volume airflow case with a giant 6' fan in the front keeps it cool and quiet. I'm doing a longevity challenge with it now, I have so many games it runs well that I'll never run out of stuff to play on it

I LIKE this movement. We are at rapidly dimininishing returns with performance, we are approaching the maximum we can do with molecules. So can we just rest here, and turn our focus to efficient and reliable coding? please

Goodday Mastodonians!!

ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY WEEKEND!
#AureFreePress #News #laborday

Cats are such graceful creatures

My cat was a little baby, I held him in one hand, paws draped over my fingers, now he is an old man nearly twice my age, he looks at me with such wisdom in his eyes, I am the child to him now and can never catch up.

Right on!

I think there should be a Grim Reaper protestor on the top of every hospital in the US until we break up the healthcare monopolies and get Medicare for All.

#healthcare

Heh heh heh. Call me childish, but I bloody love Viz.

Heard there was a major outage in multiple AI services simultaneously

haz blinkenlight

I am begging people, please just make *websites*. Not Instagram feeds, not X posts, not Squarespace slop, not e-mail newsletters, *websites*.

You know, those things that I can view without needing an account, a specialized app, shittons of spyware, etc.

(Yes, this is too salty, sorry.)

Is it ok if I'm slightly in love with Jesse Welles for this brand of US folk with a dash of modern tech commentary?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwz1XwHwWhY