As I understand it, SearXNG is a decentralized and anonymized peer-to-peer network of search-engine scrapers. So you’re not self-hosting the search engines, you’re self-hosting a node in the network that scrapes real search engines. It’s basically search-piracy, except I don’t think they’ve managed or bothered to make it illegal yet, so, enjoy it as long as we can.
As a SaaS vendor, I guarantee Google knows how to use feature flags and conditionals to limit access to certain code paths. I know they do, because I also work for a SaaS vendor, and ex-Google employees are the ones who taught us how to do it. There is also no possible way it is as intertwined in the code as they are implying it is. It is awfully convenient for them to claim that, but it’s nonsense. The stated goal of preventing students from accessing AI results is quite simple, from client side technical analysis alone I can tell, at least in most ways, how literally tacked on it is. While it wouldn’t be an ideal solution, I can personally literally block it with a CSS rule. So could the schools, technically, and it would more or less achieve their goal. But most importantly, so could Google. The fact that they won’t tells you everything you need to know about the honesty of their position.
Stop believing and repeating what they’re claiming, you’re giving near-trillion-dollar companies the benefit of the doubt but they’ve done nothing to earn that benefit. They’re corporate liars, they’re deliberately destroying the world and smashing holes in our civilization like a bull in a china shop, and we keep dancing around like we are afraid of being unfair to them, even while they are in the act of being unfair to us and literally standing in front of us telling us something we can see with our own eyes is not true. Just because they have lots and lots of money and lots and lots of platforms to make sure we have no choice but to know all the things they are saying, doesn’t mean the things they are saying are at all trustworthy. We need to get over this habitual deference and stop giving equal weighting (or any weight at all) to corporate lies from untrustworthy sources.
I don’t really follow the Star Citizen drama too closely but I’m surprised he lasted that long. This is the same Olli who was dunked on throughout and ultimately thrown under the bus during the infamously disastrous livestream presentation they did. From the outside looking in, Olli seems like a reasonable and personable fellow and CIG may just be a toxic hellhole, or at least has a handful of toxic personalities in high positions and that’s why they all didn’t seem to get along very well, but even if it’s for less blatant reasons I think it’s pretty clear he was a poor fit for the organization and he’s probably better off having nothing official to do with them going forward.
Since jet fuel is a very similar grade of fuel to diesel, is this where all the diesel is going and why diesel prices are astronomical now? I know the wars are also not helping, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this is contributing too.
That’s some mighty fine police work, Lou.
It is easy enough to use that grandmas are already using Markdown. Is that not already a sufficient level of ease of use for normal people? Normal people seem to have adapted to it just fine. I’d argue that’s because it’s just a simple text file, not in spite of it. Who are we trying to make it even easier for, literal zombies?
All this bullshit about phones with folding screens nowadays when what I really want is a phone with a folding mechanical 104-key :P
Because originally there wasn’t netting, and if the puck went where the netting is now, it would’ve been “out of play”.
The point of the netting is not to change how the game is played to be any different from how it was originally played, it’s just there to prevent spectators from needing facial reconstruction surgery when the puck goes out of play.