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  1. Comment on Why I recommend against Brave in ~tech

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    I recommend Waterfox it's really solid and has ad-block I'm loving it firefox sync works incredibly well!

    I recommend Waterfox it's really solid and has ad-block I'm loving it firefox sync works incredibly well!

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  2. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I'm not currently working on it, but planning on soon developing an Obsidian plugin to allow me to recursively copy all headlines and sub-headlines from a file or a folder (all files within that...

    I'm not currently working on it, but planning on soon developing an Obsidian plugin to allow me to recursively copy all headlines and sub-headlines from a file or a folder (all files within that folder). Simple little project but would be incredibly useful for me as I document anything that I'm learning on Obsidian. So like if I encounter some question / pattern and other stuff I make sure to note it down so next time I can quickly look it up. I also sometimes include the material itself (like from a book).

    So it would allow me to quickly copy all headlines from a folder and feed it into an LLM to help me search through what I'm looking for and where it could be for cases when ordinary search doesn't work that well (like if I don't recall precisely how the thing I'm searching for was worded) I'm talking about hundreds or thousands of headlines /sub-headlines here over lots of files here, by the way.

    I haven't found anything on the plugin store that would do that.

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  3. Comment on Long-term experiences with Google search alternatives? in ~tech

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    They gaslighted themselves into believing that because they are "building a search engine and being neutral" they can escape the consequences of their actions. You cannot. Continuing to pay Yandex...

    I've had an account ban from them for arguing against sending money to russia state controlled organizations. But Vlad is apparently fine with it and so it continues. I guess they like to support russia whilst making mealy mouthed statements about not being political

    They gaslighted themselves into believing that because they are "building a search engine and being neutral" they can escape the consequences of their actions. You cannot. Continuing to pay Yandex IS taking a political position. In situations of injustice, remaining neutral can implicitly support the status quo or the oppressor.
    I talked more about this recently in their discord. I swear there has to be some fallacy name for this.
    And they try to frame themselves as being a more ethical alternative to google. They got me at the start, not gonna lie just goes to show how you can justify just about anything.

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  4. Comment on Long-term experiences with Google search alternatives? in ~tech

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    I try to point this out anywhere I see Kagi mentioned. Kagi is currently using Yandex as one of it's index providers thus supporting Russia. Around 2% of their expenses go every month to Yandex....

    I try to point this out anywhere I see Kagi mentioned. Kagi is currently using Yandex as one of it's index providers thus supporting Russia. Around 2% of their expenses go every month to Yandex.

    You can check the whole discussion on their discord or here :
    https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integration-due-to-the-geopolitical-status-quo/19

    For me it's completely unacceptable, I urge everyone else to not use their product as well. As an alternative I use Ecosia / Qwant / Duckduckgo and Perplexity for my AI needs.

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