come on, setting up your own DNS is not difficult at all. For my home network, it’s running in a Raspberry Pi, but before that I ran it locally on my desktop. There’s no way I’d spend 15$ a year to resolve internal addresses.

Sure, you have to be careful with the TLD you choose, but I believe that if the ICANN were to create the .lan TLD, it would be all over the internet first.

I think needing a VPN to access the internal network is a good practice. And if you’re going to be used a VPN anyway, I don’t see why you wouldn’t use a “fake” TLD like .lan for internal stuff, after all it’s just simple DNS rules.

That’s absolutely true. The problem is that, to make use of VPN services, it’s required to have an account or other identifier.

But that’s no true for search engines. If I wanted to, I could make completely anonymous searches using SearXNG or DDG from different IPs and they would not have any way to correlate the search queries.

That’s not true with Kagi and it’s a completely unnecessary privacy risk you’re taking when using it.

copypasting the other comment I made in this thread:

and am I supposed to believe such a bold claim? the only reason they give is “trust me, bro. I pinky promise I’m not logging anything”.

You have one account, every search query you make is associated with that account. And even if they aren’t selling that ultra sensitive data, I’m sure they are keeping logs to prevent abuse and fix bugs which could be used when a third party gains access to their servers (malicious actors, law enforcement, etc).

And that’s assuming that Kagi is not mining and or selling any data themselves, which is a bold assumption given how little we know about their proprietary product. If at least they published the source code, but no. I’m supposed to trust a proprietary black box which could potentially be linking every search query back to me.

and am I supposed to believe such a bold claim? the only reason they give is “trust me, bro. I pinky promise I’m not logging anything”.

You have one account, every search query you make is associated with that account. And even if they aren’t selling that ultra sensitive data, I’m sure they are keeping logs to prevent abuse and fix bugs which could be used when a third party gains access to their servers (malicious actors, law enforcement, etc).

And that’s assuming that Kagi is not mining and or selling any data themselves, which is a bold assumption given how little we know about their proprietary product. If at least they published the source code, but no. I’m supposed to trust a proprietary black box which could potentially be linking every search query back to me.

most are. just do a side by side comparison. for most queries it’s literally the same results.

I think it was because they dropped Yandex results.

same. specially considering how privacy invasive kagi is.

It is as useless. After all, it’s just Bing. But if the results are good enough for you, then why bother finding something else.

I hope urban community gardens were a thing in my country. It would provide fresh and cheap vegetables and I wouldn’t mind working at it a few hours per month.

When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.

not OP, but feedly is quite privacy invasive. the content you read is very valuable data, self hosting keeps your reading interests private.

you’re not wrong. Google just announced Gemini Nano that will run directly on the Pixel 8. Of course, it’s the first of it’s kind and will probably be slow and it’s not used as autocorrect yet. But just give it one year or two and it will probably be more common.

LLMs are orders of magnitude more sophisticated and expensive to run. But don’t worry, I’m sure not so far in the future we will see smaller LLMs being run on device to be used as autocorrect.

As a Mexican, you are. And there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s not a racist term. It’s just like calling someone from France an European. Or someone from South Korea an asian.

The French guy will probably have nothing in common with a swedish, yet they happen to be both European, just like a Japanese will have a totally different culture than a Mongol, yet they are asians.

You can of course tell people to stop calling you a latino if you want to. However society automatically puts labels on people and they will call you whatever they want. If I were you, I’d just stop giving it any importance.

that’s just a temporal patch and does not solve the monopoly situation

XMPP was there before Matrix and will be there after Matrix dies when the venture capitalists behind Element funding decide to move the money somewhere else.

Matrix is not an “open source project”. It’s a VC funded company.

every comment you make is just supporting that you shouldn’t be trying to self-host an instance. you lack all the knowledge necessary to do so.

if you’re really stubborn about it, your best bet would be paying someone with the proper knowledge to do it for you.

This applies only to their hosted solutions, doesn’t it?

Shouldn’t be relevant for self-hosters.