I'll never cease to be amazed at the wonders of technology

Yeah I just find the title very weird, to me it makes more sense to choose a search engine because it respects your privacy than to "support European companies"

I hadn't read the "Need help choosing?" part of the picture, so still oupsie on my part 😅 I wish it mentioned that it's decentralized... but considering it's aimed at people using Google, I guess that'd be like trying to convert people from twitter/reddit to mastodon/lemmy by geeking out about decentralization and ActivityPub. No one cares, aside from the people who are already using it 😅

yeah I wish decentralized search engines were more common

Yeah I'm sure it was the weather. It feels like fascism's about to rain. Anyone's got an umbrella?

So there aren't any new ones being developed since systemd?

...and in France we get maimed by tear gas grenades and rubber bullets for it. Yay.

I'm not saying that it's not a lot worse now, I do agree that it is. But things were already headed this way long before ChatGPT. SEO had already gone a long way in killing the web, I think AI will just be the death blow.

oh I thought runit was an old init system from before systemd, I guess I shouldn't have assumed that systemd was the latest one because it's everywhere, thanks for the info I'll check it out!

Haiku is pretty neat

I remember when computers had no memory and the storage was on punch cards made from mammoth leather that we had to tan ourselves after spending our weekends hunting the mammoth with spears. Also we carved our code by hand on stone tablets. Young people these days have it easy.

Same, go FreeTube! And NewPipe for mobile.

If you don't want to bother with a CLI app and specific syntax to follow, there's rofi-calc, it's super fast to load since it's just rofi and it understands natural language. When I stumbled upon it I found the idea of a calculator that understands you when you type "30 feet in mm" or "10 usd in euros" completely mindblowing. Props to qalc for making it possible