I’ve gotten very into self-hosting (on device, not on a server) my own search engine, but searxng is unbearably clunky to make run on my Gentoo OpenRC machine. Two projects stuck out, 4get and omnisearch, but which of these do you think is the best and do you know other ones?

      • willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        24·
        25 days ago

        I don’t have the answer to your qustion, but I like to occasionally consider that there is no such thing as a stupid action, only an action that I don’t understand.

        Why would someone talk like that?

        Some possibilities:

        1. To stem all future criticism of Kagi by making the first and the most at the time visible criticism sound braindead. Thus creating an association that all of criticism is braindead.
        2. To use the reverse psychology to promote Kagi. You say it sucks, and you don’t think it’s worth your time to even explain it? Well, I am a rebel, so as a fuck you, I will use Kagi.

        These two immediately jump at me, because I see people preaching Kagi in a manner of an influence op.

        So these negs could be part of the op.

        Again. Not saying I know. I don’t. And I likely won’t use Kagi myself. It’s just fun to speculate a bit.

          • willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            42·
            25 days ago

            That was not an LLM. That said, I do use a chatbot like once a week. Maybe some of their speegh patterns are rubbing off?

            • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              24 days ago

              I appreciate your honesty and you seem like you want to do your best. I’m sorry we aren’t a more supportive group.

            • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
              23·
              24 days ago

              Yes, it has been scientifically proven that you are getting dumber by using an LLM regularly to do your thinking for you. Congratulations.

              • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                21·
                24 days ago

                You DO realize that you’re firing on your own team, right?

                Let’s not do that, here. This is our community, it’s what you and I make of it.

                • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
                  23·
                  24 days ago

                  I am most definitely not on the same team as people that use chatbots so often they start to mimic their slop-style writing techniques. Worry about yourself, you don’t get to decide what team I am on, tyvm.

                  Also, I am not “just being an ass”, I am paraphrasing MIT scientific research.

                  • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    21·
                    24 days ago

                    Once again, this place is your community and my community. You can build your people up or tear them down.

                    If you aren’t here to build community then you should ask yourself what really feeds you.

        • yuki_gassen@lemmy.ml
          21·
          24 days ago

          300 is low, i agree. but idk, if it’s a free product, then YOU are the product. is my data still being used in ways that profit a few and invade my privacy? probably, but less than google i hope.

          I am on the anti-AI side of things, by nature of being human. and yeah, there’s some AI shit in kagi, as with seemingly all others. but it at least it’s opt-in (i think). i’ve never seen it shoved in my face, which i can’t say for example duckduckgo.

          can’t tell u what price is best for you, or what UI u prefer. but trash? no. google is trash.