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Best answer here.

Copyright in of itself is not a bad thing. The problem is our execution of it.

I've never heard of InviZible, it looks supper cool. Although, I can't really give it a try right now (I'm using an iPhone -- I had a Motorola, but the battery gave out on me a few months? ago and I can't find a good price for a replacement).

Yeah, you really aren't supposed to... I rarely use Orbot to be honest, it's just super useful if I do need to use it, like on a network that blocks a whole bunch of things and you want to catch up on Matrix messages or whatever. Also, if you're worried about your phone updating or making a bunch of useless requests, you can turn on low data mode/mark your current connection as metered.

https://blog.kagi.com/update-kagi-search-pricing

I gotta hand it to them for being transparent about their pricing, including that limit feature... AWS should take some notes.

These are actually super cool because they put things like the old “site:reddit.com” trick on steroids and https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/code.html is like site:stackoverflow.com on steroids.

I'm assuming you're a programmer so I gotta ask, how much easier does this make it for your to find documentation and answers to that one error that the language never decided to document for some reason?

It’s also quite a bit more user facing, and easier to work with than say, getting the same options from Google search.

Google does always seem to hide them for some reason, despite the fact that it would be easy to work into the interface.

Not sure what you mean by custom ones, haven’t seen anything about that; but it’s definitely in the feature parity category.

In this post they say: "We have many instant answers already and are constantly adding more, with the idea of allowing users to define their own ‘widgets’ in the future." I'm assuming it's not released yet, but it does sound like a cool feature when they do.

Don’t forget things like redirects (change your lemmy UI?) and their own index, which includes things like wayback machine results – particularly relevant with CNET deleting old content to boost their Google ranking.

I didn't see either one of these features on the blog post, likely because it was from 2022, but pretty cool being able to search for old content that's been deleted.

The search engine itself, no; but their browser extensions are open source: https://github.com/kagisearch/browser_extensions

I stand corrected, that is nice that at least a bit of it is, I didn't see that on their website, granted I did miss the entire "Help" page somehow.

Their generated summaries are also pretty cool

Alright, so I created a trail account, and gave it a try with a random article, and hey, pretty cool, and would actually save time. I even tried it with some pretty simple documentation, it did end up just describing the steps that had to be taken. Although, I noticed a little "discuss this document" button, and asked it what code I'd need, it gave it to me. Then asked it to make tweaks like changing the key and sections to ones that actually would be in a configuration file, and it changed it. It could even do things beyond just the lines it's on, like instead of printing the value, make sure it's not a value. I gotta say, I actually am pretty impressed by that (even if it is relatively simple work), I know ChatGPT and Copilot could (likely) do the same things, but how it broke it down from an article is pretty cool.

Now, I'm likely not gonna become a paying customer for it, like I said in the original post -- I'm using (Neo)vim, and, while I've played around with AI like this, I don't find it ever really falling into my workflow. Maybe down the road, and if the internet keeps getting worse, it might be worth it. That being said you can do a lot of these things with alternative solutions, but a search engine that puts them all together is pretty cool, and does save some time.

I’ve tried a lot of different backup solutions… I’d be curious where you’re leaning, but I’d say this one is likely going to be your winner for ease of use, privacy, and cross-platform functionality.

Currently, I'm using Nextcloud, and I distro hop enough that all I need to do is backup my documents, which most are code and can go on Git(Lab/Tea/Hub). Although, I'm finally settling down (there's like one or two more distros that I want to try) with Arch Linux, and a proper backup solution would be nice, by plan is to just go through this entire thread, compare features, and try them out.

Thanks for explaining Kagi to me by the way, it is in fact a pretty cool service!

Orbit acts as a VPN and effects the entire system, so all of your apps get routed through ToR.

Oooh, I've never seen this, it looks amazing!

Spotlight, which I was missing from when I had a Mac in 2008

Amazing that Spotlight is that old!

Kagi

Prices seem high... Features, seem nice (but not crazy):

• "Boosting" and blocking domains: basically permanent filters.
• "Lenses" - Similar to SearXNG's different tabs, but more like a profile style system.
• Bangs are the same as in SearXNG, and I think you can do the same, or similar, thing in Firefox.
• Custom CSS is cool and all but you can get that with a browser add-on (like Stylus).
• Their "Comprehensive result filtering" seems that same as every other browser
• They have Vim-ish keybinds, which SearXNG and DDG have.
• "Widgets" - Seems like Google's quick answers, user created ones are cool I guess.
• The "crystal orb" - Allows you to determine the "quality" of sites, and also open them in the Wayback Machine or adjust that boosting/blocking level.

(Source)

Additionally, it seems that they don't have seem to have any external audits or releasing of code (correct me if I'm wrong). Additional they have a web browser, that's only for Apple's ecosystem. Overall, you pay for no-ads, I feel like for this feature set you could just use DuckDuckGo with advertisements off, or the HTML version (which doesn't include JavaScript either). I'm kinda skeptical about it, but if it ends up taking off I'll be happy there will be another alternative to Google.

Kopia

This actually looks very cool, so many new backup solutions to try after this thread. 🥲

Links: NewPipe, GitHub, F-Droid. The vibe I'm getting is that it's a more lightweight, Google-less frontend for services like YouTube and Bandcamp, correct me if I'm wrong though, never used it -- but I've seen it a few times.

Alright, I like both Notion and Obsidian, so I'll give both a try. Thank you!

Threema

Yeah, but how many people use it (half-joking, I'm a Matrix user myself and understand the pain)?