👍🏻 Roger Roger thanks for the correction

Yep. I was using ddg but just spun up 2 sear instances for myself. (One on vpn one off)

What are your favorite searxng customizations / bangs?

Duckduckgo is bing. They route their searches there afaik. It’s just a privacy layer, like startpage is a privacy layer on Google.

I agree with this take, mostly.

I think it’s highly likely the app collects far more data than it should on you. And there are probably subtle things they can do to manipulate the broad sentiment without entirely changing everyone’s feeds. That being said, yes, the algorithm really is just what you make it to be.

I just imagine if there’s something that the government doesn’t like they identify, it disappears. But TikTok is so big it’s hard to catch everything I’m sure. Even with AI etc…

They put pcp alongside shrooms and LSD. That’s insane.

I plan to recoup the cost in cancelled subscriptions.

Yep. Just ordered 4 12tb hdds for a zfs setup

Same. We don’t need to be 500m