While it may sound like a lot of work, it truly takes an afternoon and some unused RAM on your PC to make happen, then you’re set up!
This shit is why open source software has a bad reputation.
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TidBit@mander.xyz 9 months ago
Without Google’s grubby paws across most the web, it’d be much more like the initial intent of what the internet was supposed to be, a welcoming place with open and accessible info!
If you don’t want to pay to access a web search service, just use docker and run your own SearXNG instance! This will also allow you to host our own AI model that searches the web through SearXNG. While it may sound like a lot of work, it truly takes an afternoon and some unused RAM on your PC to make happen, then you’re set up!
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You can make an installer like the one Freenet has. Maybe even a wrapper with a tray icon in Tcl/Tk or something like that.
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Docker enshitification coming in 3… 2… 1…
mesamunefire@piefed.social 9 months ago
Meh there's a ton of other services like opentofu, vms, ect...
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Im going to look into this. What’s the benefit of hosting your own searxng instance?
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
It’s yours, no issues trusting a public instance with your searches. Pages full of settings to tweak as you like. Less problems with an algorithm ‘helping’ you. It averages searches over multiple search engines that you choose, you can set up your own (or a curated) block list of crappy AI slop sites, don’t like fandom.com or something, gone. Manage your own bangs, e.g. !aa for annas-archive. Pipe it through a VPN with gluetun for better isolation. If you have your head around docker already it’s more like half an hour to set up, so why not?
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
That is awesome. A little beyond me but I’ve played in docker a bit. Is a VPN needed to keep your ip from being exposed ?
Is just using an existing searxng instance just less secure then?
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Is a VPN needed to keep your ip from being exposed ? No more so than using any search engine directly, it’s a nice to have. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Is just using an existing searxng instance just less secure then? By the time you’ve investigated it, you could have stood up your own instance…
tux0r@feddit.org 9 months ago
If you don’t want to pay to access a web search service, just use docker
IMO: My personal problem with Docker is that it creates its own kind of vendor lock-in. Docker does not run on the server operating systems I use. The tendency is towards a Linux monoculture and that is never a good idea. Docker is a symptom, not a solution.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
podman exists and doesn’t force root…
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s true, but all of their problem with docker are that it’s Linux
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Sounds like a them problem then.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is it really vendor lock-in if you can fork it at your whim?
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
forking doesn’t really help with the underlying problem that docker is a layer to run on top of Linux’s KVM. at a certain point though, it’s become standard enough though that BSD not having a good way to support docker, or any other CRI containerization service for that matter, is a BSD failure, not a containerization failure
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 9 months ago
docker is a layer to run on top of Linux’s KVM
My understanding is that this is only true for docker desktop, which there’s not really any reason to use on a server.
Sure, since containers use the host’s kernel, any Linux containers do need to either have Linux as the host or run a VM (as docker desktop does by default), but that’s not particularly unique to docker
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Unless general-purpose Internet services will be banned.
Have you noticed that laws about providing data on bad-bad criminals yadda-yadda implicitly ban everything not allowing to get that data?
And have you noticed that Russian bans of things that can’t be filtered not only implicitly allow whitelist ban of protocols and services, but are also not very far from what EU and US lawmakers want?
In any situation, if what powerful guys are doing seems to promise good things for you, first consider the possibility that you don’t understand what they are doing.