SearXR, a spatial XR metasearch-engine

https://makertube.net/w/hZAiMsm9uxSQUjU6J4dJ1a

@parismarx hey, I listened to the System Crash episode from May 23rd yesterday (a little bit behind on my podcasts...), where at some point you briefly talk about search engines you have been trying out, including ecosia and qwant.

Not sure, what else you have tried, so I thought maybe I just throw in two that I have experiemented with and had great success. Perhaps you already know them. But those were not mentioned in the podcast. Until the european Open Search Index is ready, there unfortunately is no perfect solution, but meta-search engines have been the best compromise for me personally until then.

Obviously you still rely on big tech to some extent, but at least you diversify the reliance a little bit. Sometimes, this also takes the form of competitive compatibility, which is a notion I really like towards big tech.

#SearX/#SearXng is of course great and extremely customizable, open source and self hostable (for trying out, here is a German provider: https://gruble.de/).

Personally, I have been using #MetaGer, a German meta search engine, for quite a while now. I like the minimal and brutalist-esque UI of it. For me,  it just gets the job done for me, both in my personal life and in my academic life. A little disclaimer here: MetaGer is run by a German NGO, which I joined as a passive member a few months back, because I really like their mission. They also plan to create a new search engine, entirely based on the Open Search Index, called "nolm" (no LLM), which will also find its way as a search provider into MetaGer.

I do have some little gripes with MetaGer, which I remedied with my own flimsy solution stacked on top of it, which provides me with a similar feature like DDG's "Bangs".

Anyways, thanks for the great podcast and this episode in particular, which was very entertaining.

В анонсе новой версии e/OS (https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63354) увидел их поисковики:

https://murena.qwant.com/
https://spot.ecloud.global/

Ничего революционного, конечно, просто форк searx, но по первой пробе ищет вполне прилично. Надо будет потестить. Сам-то #searx у меня уже лет пять по дефолту стоит...
#searchengine #search #поиск

Flyer logiciels libres
https://www.informassue.tuxfamily.org/Flyer_logiciels_libres.php

[Mise à jour : Organic #Maps remplace OsmAnd pour les cartes hors-ligne et la #navigation #GPS] Voici plusieurs logos de logiciels libres et donc open source à découvrir, accès libre au logiciel avec ►1 CLIC◄ sur chaque logo.

#Informassue #LogicielLibre #FreeSoftware #Flyer #Firefox #Addon #Linux #Framalibre #OS #Messagerie #ClientsYoutube #SearX #Fediverse #OrganicMaps etc. #ViePrivée #Privacy

Se acaba de ir la luz en mi casa, por lo que https://search.autumn64.xyz no estará funcionando por un rato.

#searx #searxng #autumn64 #fediverse

💡 Très intéressante vidéo de @lecrivainsf sur les moteurs de recherche alternatifs à #Google. Bien qu'aucun ne soit parfait, ils existent et les utiliser à la place de Google contribue à effriter au gré du temps l'hégémonie du géant américain. Gwên revient d'abord sur ce que sont les moteurs indépendants, les méta-moteurs et les moteurs hybrides. Puis elle décrit et donne son ressenti sur #Qwant, #DuckDuckGo, #StartPage, #SearX / #SearXNG, #YaCy, #Brave et #Mojeek. #GAFAM
https://peertube.iriseden.eu/w/cpTW1kHaJ56TibD2pjNvPe

Cómo autohostear servicios de Software Libre - Tutorial básico

https://video.hardlimit.com/w/6KTEH1bE3srwgx6qJo7YpR

@slashdot I myself use a #Searx instance and #Qwant.

After all these years any improvement in information retrieval algorithms is marginal. Some of the latest changes in Google are even counterproductive.

Bing is not any better and still isn't free software, backed by another monopoly.

@biytelum

While it may be outside your intended audience, #searx / #searxng are worthy of note and can be #selfhosted.

"tl;dr
Já podes fazer as tuas pesquisas online no nosso meta-motor de pesquisa, disponível em: searx.direitosdigitais.pt

Os motores de pesquisa são uma ferramenta imprescindível no nosso quotidiano. Seja por motivos pessoais ou profissionais, todos recorremos a estes recursos com regularidade. No entanto, a sua utilização também tem um lado negro, especialmente a nível da privacidade. Quantas vezes não perguntamos ao Google questões que não nos atrevemos a perguntar a mais ninguém? Toda essa informação pode ser usada para traçar um perfil rigoroso com os nossos gostos, objectivos, ideologias ou desejos mais íntimos.

Um perfil que é usado para nos manipular. As pesquisas que fazemos ficam registadas em histórico nos servidores desses motores de pesquisa e servem para nos apresentar publicidade personalizada, tanto na página de resultados, como noutros sítios que visitamos. Nesses anúncios, os nossos dados pessoais, incluindo dados sensíveis, são comunicados a milhares de empresas, sem qualquer respeito pela privacidade e protecção de dados. Bem-vindos ao capitalismo de vigilância.

Foi com estas preocupações em mente que, na D3, decidimos que estava na altura de fazer algo para contribuir para uma navegação mais privada e ajudar a desmerdificar um pouco a Internet."

https://direitosdigitais.pt/noticias/159-d3-disponibiliza-motor-de-pesquisa-respeitador-da-privacidade

#Portugal #Privacidade #DireitosDigitais #SearX #MotorDePesquisa

Voy a detener por un momento el buscador #SearX y el traductor #LibreTranslate por razones de mantenimiento. Sólo tardaré 10 minutos y los echaré a andar de nuevo.

Después de pelearme durante hora y media con el contenedor de #Docker de #SearX , al final sí migré la instancia desde mi #VPS a la #RaspberryPi . Como dije anteriormente, es posible que el uptime no sea del 100% dado que se va la luz a menudo en mi casa, pero aún así todo debería de funcionar bien.

#freesoftware #softwarelibre #autohost #fediverse

The fix will come in Gugal 0.8.4.

The changelogs will be up soon, and the version itself will be released in about a week to give translators time to translate a string that was added in this version.

Note that, due to limitations in SearXNG, the rate limits won't be removed entirely. However, Gugal won't be instantly rate limited, and instances won't be marked as "unsupported".

#gugal #androidapp #searxng #searx

I'm aware of issues when using Gugal with the latest version of SearXNG. It seems that this is because Gugal's requests are incorrectly being recognized as bot requests. A fix will come later as a minor update to 0.8.

#gugal #androidapp #searx #searxng

Are there any trustworthy #SearX instances that have vast options for #metasearch?

Since I'm also trying to #deGoogle, I also don't want to find another trusting search engine. I currently use Qwant but I've heard people say it's also not a good zone. Much like other bigger #searchengines that monetize your searches through the Goog.

What a mess, really. How did it ever get this way.
I'm glad Musk kickstarted all this shit, so I can actually fully recourse my active accounts & know better.

Finally I've ditched DDG because it's pushing AI. Switched to SearXNG and it's quite fine, good for image search too.

Possible to make it the default search engine using a browser extension.

#ai #noai #fuckai #duckduckgo #searx

anybody got any searx instances that a) dont suck and b) are avail as onion links

plz boost

#boost #searx #tor

Switch to #SearX

Since I'm a few hours from the end of this week, I want to mention what I've done so far to #reclaim my #digital life & protect my #privacy: Use #Mullvad #VPN. Downloaded all my files from #Google #Photos, deleted everything from said service (& #Onedrive for the matter), cancelled my Google One #subscription. I installed my own #Joplin #server for my notes. Switched to #DuckDuckGo but simultaneously, testing #Searx #instances. Baby steps ahead but still, steps ahead. Next step, NextCloud.