I use the closest one to me from searx.space. I suppose hosting an instance yourself will give you the best response times, but it always still takes a moment while it searches through multiple search engines. If you only care about the results of one engine (e.g. google) then you could disable the others. Might speed it up a bit.

Ublacklist works with searx? Good to know, I want to try this myself.

Your search results must be so clean and useful.

That’s why I still prefer searx. Duck duck go is basically just Bing results, right?

Seems like you also have the option to use the open source mixtral and llama3 models.

Also, if all the requests from their users go through their api request, i suppose is much more private than using your own account.

I’m not sure how they plan to monetise this though. Ai chat is not that cheap actually.

Oh, so it shows up between your search results? Sounds pretty horrible. Good that it’s toggle-able.

Is that something that would be blocked by an adblocker? Or are you talking about the shopping tab? I have not used that myself in duckduckgo

I also use SearxNG for all my searches at the moment. But the instance I use is not that fast. Might have to look into hosting one myself.

So what are these exactly? An alternative to www/http websites? Are there any specific ‘websites’ or features that make it worth it to use something like this? (over TOR for example)

Yeah, relying on donations is not that easy. I feel like it’s more like top athletes: Only the top performers can live on it, for all others it’s usually not enough to survive.

What I’m surprised with is that libre software is not more commonly utilised in goverments and libraries. For services that should provide open resources for all people, it would make much more sense to use similarly open software (and remove the overhead from paying for proprietary licenses)

Thanks, that’s a good place to start.

I’m continually amazed by how people can manage to bounce back from hardships and find something that works for them.

I do agree with your point of view. I actually did some project work which was even better paid than the stable jobs I’ve had before that. (I realise I’m lucky to have had the opportunity) But I can only keep up this kind of work for a while though, maybe 6 months max. I usually feel too tired to keep going, and have no energy left for my personal projects. It’s not that it’s too intense or difficult work, but just putting in 8 hours each day for things you don’t care about really takes its toll for me.

My ideal project was something I worked for 2-3 days on average per week, but still got full-time pay. Not easy to find something like that though. I never really find any part-time software engineering positions. The best option is to join full time, show what you can do, and then ask for a reduction in hours. That’s how I did it before.

I will definitely do that. Thanks for the suggestion.

I think it would be really nice to do this actually. But I’m not convinced I could support myself in this way. Kudos to those that can though.

Seems like other people have the same question, but it does not seem easy to aswer…

Grift + wealth works even better.