Ironically one of DDG’s early selling points, before they fully jumped on the privacy bandwagon, was that they would filter out results for low-effort content farms (this was pre-LLM stuff).

I had used DDG since almost the beginning and it was one of the things I was originally sold on. It’s difficult to find a source for it now but I did find this: https://web.archive.org/web/20110608072253/https://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?bid=377&bpid=25532

Are you (or is anyone here) daily-driving Stract yet? I discovered it a few months ago and thought it was everything I was looking for in a search engine, but also concluded that its search results aren’t up to the standard I can use for now, so I filed it as one to look out for. Would be interested in hearing others’ experiences.

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I’ve always maintained it would have been an amazing game without the glitches. In a way I can appreciate it for what it nearly was.

It’s worth a try, though in my experience it can struggle with very large files.

For me (UK):

zsh = zed ess aitch

sudo - exactly the same as “pseudo”

ssh = ess ess aitch

I’m not alone in this, it’s only what all of my colleagues say.

Can you save it DRM-free? That’s all I ask for.

Sure, I pretty much use the method explained here for weekly backups: https://fedoramagazine.org/btrfs-snapshots-backup-incremental/

Btrfs for everything these days, subvolume snapshots have been game-changing for me for doing backups.

Reddit would surely have to ban users from creating new subreddits for certain (previously allowed) topics, or else users would just create an alternative “free” subreddit and everyone would post there, right? This can’t work like something like YouTube Premium originals or else they’re going to have to pay certain popular people to post to the paywalled subs - but nobody uses Reddit to follow individuals.

This is one of the weirder surveys I’ve ever taken, I hope they know what they’re doing.

as did CentOS before it

Fedora is older than CentOS?

True, I hoped the next generation wouldn’t make the same mistake…

Last Windows I used exclusively was 98. I dual-booted XP at home but gave it up when I realised Linux had everything I need and I never used the Windows partition. Still had to use Windows 7 at work for a few years but since then I’ve worked in a position where I can bring my own OS.

Hence the fight. Why do I feel like I’m being taken oddly literally here today?

I know that but it still feels like paying twice, or paying extra for something that should be standard in any sane world. Presumably this software doesn’t give you a download licence.

Paying money to download content I’ve already paid for?

Downvoted it because OP didn’t specify where in the world they were, therefore nobody can properly give a good answer. Recommending an overseas university is very different to recommending one from their country.

On the scale of Greensleeves, I would suggest Yesterday is today.

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