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JayVii
jayvii@social.jayvii.dehe/him | #AntiFacist #Statistics #DataScience #rstats #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Privacy #Vegan 🌱 | Image Description Header: Foto of a row of Pissoir in an Irish bar. Above, there is a yellow sign indicating that this area is surveilled via CCTV
jayvii@social.jayvii.dehe/him | #AntiFacist #Statistics #DataScience #rstats #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Privacy #Vegan 🌱 | Image Description Header: Foto of a row of Pissoir in an Irish bar. Above, there is a yellow sign indicating that this area is surveilled via CCTV
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JayVii posted Jun 7, 2025
@parismarx hey, I listened to the System Crash episode from May 23rd yesterday (a little bit behind on my podcasts...), where at some point you briefly talk about search engines you have been trying out, including ecosia and qwant.
Not sure, what else you have tried, so I thought maybe I just throw in two that I have experiemented with and had great success. Perhaps you already know them. But those were not mentioned in the podcast. Until the european Open Search Index is ready, there unfortunately is no perfect solution, but meta-search engines have been the best compromise for me personally until then.
Obviously you still rely on big tech to some extent, but at least you diversify the reliance a little bit. Sometimes, this also takes the form of competitive compatibility, which is a notion I really like towards big tech.
#SearX/#SearXng is of course great and extremely customizable, open source and self hostable (for trying out, here is a German provider: gruble.de).
Personally, I have been using #MetaGer (metager.de), a German meta search engine, for quite a while now. I like the minimal and brutalist-esque UI of it. For me, it just gets the job done for me, both in my personal life and in my academic life. A little disclaimer here: MetaGer is run by a German NGO, which I joined as a passive member a few months back, because I really like their mission. They also plan to create a new search engine, entirely based on the Open Search Index, called "nolm" (no LLM), which will also find its way as a search provider into MetaGer.
I do have some little gripes with MetaGer, which I remedied with my own flimsy solution stacked on top of it, that provides a similar feature like DDG's "Bangs".
Anyways, thanks for the great podcast and this episode in particular, which was very entertaining.
In eigener Sache:
Noch immer sind wir darauf angewiesen, dass die Zahl der Mitglieder steigt. Nur dann kann sich MetaGer auf Dauer tragen. Nur dann sind wir in der Lage, auch neue Wege auszuprobieren, so wie mit Nolm, der neuen Suchmaschine, die auf dem Open Web Index aufsetzt.
Deshalb: bitte gerne teilen! Eine Mitgliedschaft bedeutet auch, dass der Schlüssel für die MetaGer-Suche monatlich automatisch neu aufgeladen wird. Es lohnt sich also.
Das Verwaltungsgericht in Berlin hat diese Woche klargestellt, dass die Zurückweisungen an den deutschen Grenzen offensichtlich rechtswidrig sind. Auch Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt weiß das. Trotzdem hält er an seiner Weisung fest, die Zurückweisungen aufrechtzuerhalten. Er setzt damit auf offenen Rechtsbruch und sagt dem Rechtsstaat den Kampf an.
What's been lost...
Entomologists from Krefeld, Germany, collected flying insects for two weeks in August 1994 (left) and—at the same site, with an identical trap— in August 2016 (right). Similar data from 63 German protected areas overall gave a shocking result: a 76 percent drop in insect biomass between 1989 and 2016.
It has worsened significantly in the past 9 years.
Photographed at Entomological Society of Krefeld
All Cops are Beamte und deswegen bei (rechtswidrigen, VG Berlin hat das letztinstanzlich festgestellt) #Zurückweisungen an dt. Grenzen auch persönlich rechtlich auf dünnem Eis.
Es sei ihnen vielleicht das Buch von Arne Semsrott ans Herz gelegt, das die #Remonstration erklärt.
Bezeichnend, dass hier Werkzeuge, die eigentlich gegen Nazis entwickelt wurden, gegen CDU/CSU-Minister zur Anwendung kommen.
https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/nach-beschluessen-des-vg-berlin
AWS = Amazon = Jeff Bezos, auf dem Schoß von Trump.
Corporate Presence.
European sovereign cloud.
Merkste selbst.
Souverän? Wer ist da souverän? Was bedeutet dieses sinnentleerte Wort? Nichts.
AWS establishes new German corporate presence to advance European sovereign cloud | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/aws-establishes-new-german-corporate-presence-to-advance-european-sovereign-cloud/
Es ist nun raus: ab Mitte August werden wir von Bing keine Suchergebnisse mehr erhalten. Bing fällt also bei unserer Metasuche raus. Hier ein paar Gedanken dazu:
https://suma-ev.de/bald-kein-zugriff-mehr-auf-den-bing-index-was-bedeutet-das-fuer-metager/
JayVii posted May 28, 2025
Yesterday, I implemented #CSS rules in my "purpleish theme" within my #ktistec tweaks that change the display of posts in card style, similar to other social media. Also adds some very subtle shadow, which gives it a very slight 3D effect. This looks a lot more modern now, I think: https://src.jayvii.de/pub/ktistec-tweaks/commit/136cc0629bd23df71cc4969e23e6c252f847a9c6.html
