Definitely true. I’ll have to try it out. Is Ecosia better than DuckDuckGo or Kagi?

Google was best in the 2000s, but things were different back then. They were still a young company trying to improve the world, SEO spam wasn’t really a thing yet, there were far fewer websites, and most online discussions were archived and searchable (compared to today where there’s platforms like Discord that aren’t indexable in search engines at all).

I use it for document summarization and it works well. I use Paperless-ngx to manage documents, and have paperless-ai configured to instantly set the title and tags using Gemini as soon as a new document is added.

I chose Gemini over OpenAI since Google’s privacy policy is better. I’m using the paid version, and Google says data from paid users will never be used to train the model. Unfortunately I don’t have good enough hardware to run a local model.

It’s been common ever since magnet links were created, since you can post a magnet link anywhere (even in a plain text file) rather than having to upload a .torrent file somewhere like in the old days.

This is available in the UI too - there’s a tab labeled “Web”. Sometimes it’s hiding under “More”.

Adding it to the search provider URL is a good idea though.

Ecosia still uses American services though - they use Google, Bing, Yahoo and Wikipedia for search results.

I’m talking specifically about companies that post a loss every quarter, like Backblaze does. Backblaze’s net profit in Q4 2024 was -$14.38 million. Their net profit is going up year over year, but it’s still negative.

Even if the report is inaccurate, Backblaze has never been profitable, which isn’t great. Investors want to see a return on their investment. They’ll keep pushing Backblaze to become profitable, likely eventually resulting in enshittification of some sort. We’ll see if things have changed when they publish their Q1 2025 results on May 7.

One of the harsh realities in Silicon Valley is there’s a lot of companies that produce great products but end up failing after going public, either because they couldn’t find a good product market fit, or because they couldn’t figure out how to make their idea profitable.

It’s a fork of OpenSSH, with tweaks to make it work on Windows (e.g. using Windows auth instead of Linux PAM). It’s been available since Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse

The source for Microsoft’s fork is here: https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable

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At least I live in an area where the most likely disaster is an earthquake that destroys the entire area, and I’m not sure how useful weather alerts would be in that case.

My emergency kit has a radio with AM / FM / NOAA (emergency weather broadcasts in the USA) and a hand crank to charge its battery for exactly this reason.

Yet on Lemmy, I feel like no one talk about this huge international event.

Maybe because the people that are affected don’t have power.

Windows has a native SSH server (bundled with Windows but has to be manually enabled), so they might be SSHing into their gaming system. Or, their gaming system could be a Linux system running something like Bazzite.

That works, but why do that when you could just do apt install ./package-file.deb?

Ahh that’s unfortunate - they worked well together. Family is always the most important though!

It was missing a bunch of features last time I tried it - no crossfades, no automatic playlists (for things like liked songs, decades, etc), no artist radio (play an artist plus similar artists), no way to play sonically similar songs (based on server-side analysis), no loudness leveling, no Android Auto. Maybe it’s improved now - I’ll have to give it another shot.

Unfortunately I’m not sure I know enough about audio processing and similarity analysis to be able to implement those features myself.

apt and apt-get both use dpkg internally, but these days it’s essentially seen as an implementation detail that regular users don’t need to know about.

dpkg doesn’t resolve dependencies (that’s a feature of apt) which means that if you install a Debian package with dpkg, you’ll have to manually install all dependencies first, and they won’t be marked as automatically installed (so autoremove won’t remove them if they’re not needed any more). Using apt solves that.

The web suggests dpkg because either the articles are old, or they’re based on outdated knowledge :)

Yeah, unfortunately it’s closed-source. It’s a good app though! If you build something similar that’s fully open source, with an Android app and Android Auto support, then I’d definitely be interested in trying it.

Wow I didn’t realise that Game Sack is still around. I remember watching their videos maybe 10 years ago. Thanks for the link.

Have you tried Plexamp? It supports all the features in your list. You need a Plex Pass for most of its features though.

I’m not mentioning it to suggest your project is bad or to discourage you; I’m mentioning it since it might give you some inspiration for features to implement in your one :)