Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like

TidBit@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Docker enshitification coming in 3… 2… 1…

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  • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Meh there's a ton of other services like opentofu, vms, ect...

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• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Im going to look into this. What’s the benefit of hosting your own searxng instance?

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  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…

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• tux0r@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it really vendor lock-in if you can fork it at your whim?

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    • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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      • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    podman exists and doesn’t force root…

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    • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s true, but all of their problem with docker are that it’s Linux

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      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sounds like a them problem then.

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