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Lmao of fucking course… God damn do I hate this timeline.

Ah, sorry, I guess I implied there’s something nefarious going on with Startpage. But there isn’t as far as I can tell. I just trust Mullvad more based on their track record. If you’re happy using Startpage keep using it.

I’ve had good luck with searxng.site, but yeah, public instances aren’t going to have the uptime and reliability of Google or DDG. Think of public instances as a test drive. You get a taste of what it can do but it’s a much better ride when you self-host.

I just checked and it doesn’t look like it (if you want to search for DDG bangs here’s the link, just scroll down a bit.). But you could always just add Leta as a search engine in your browser preferences and set a keystroke for it. For example, type L into the URL bar then space and it’ll use Leta for your query. (Note, I use Firefox, not sure if it’s the same with Chromium based browsers).

For what it’s worth, Mullvad recently opened up Leta to people without Mullvad VPN accounts. It’s a google/brave search proxy so pretty much what Startpage claims to do, but I trust Mullvad to actually respect my privacy more than I do Startpage.

I haven’t noticed any issues with the quality of DDG results, but if you feel the results are lackluster, you could try a metasearch engine like SearXNG. You can self-host it or use one of the many public instances maintained by the community. The main advantage, apart from the privacy focused aspect of the project, is that you can pull results from multiple search engines with a single query. It’s highly customizable too. You can configure it exactly how you want.

Good. I’d prefer Mastodon get the influx of new users but anything is better than Twitter. My hope is that it may serve as a pit stop that gets less tech-inclined people acquainted with the concepts behind the fediverse before moving on to actual federated services. I’ve taken to calling Bluesky “Mastodon with training wheels.” But that outlook is probably a bit optimistic. The majority will probably just stick with Bluesky.

Yep. Trump’s going to contradict this statement within 24hrs, guaranteed.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk dismissed the wave of “Hands Off!” protests held across the U.S. on Sunday, accusing demonstrators of being manipulated by unseen political operatives.

“The problem is the puppet masters, not the puppets, as the latter have no idea why they are even there,” Musk posted

Elon’s projecting on more screens than a Marvel movie.

Right? The guy whose acting range was limited to “smarmy creep with an accent” turned out to be a sex pest. Weird!

Well, based on the fact that Trump forced Romanian authorities to give the Tate brothers their passports back and allow them to return to the US, I wouldn’t be surprised if he decides to step in and protect Russell Brand too. He’s a passionate defender of rapists (being one himself) and sex traffickers (having been BFFs with Epstein).

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (2005)

I heard they suck live

RHCP are mostly just horny for California.

Yeah, seems a bit misplaced. They were always a fairly bleak and moody band… and it only got darker when Billy Corgan started losing his hair, bought a synthesizer, and entered his Nosferatu era.

I’m just surprised it’s such a short list. I expect it’ll be much longer by the summer.

Demi Moore was pretty good in The Substance. Have you guys seen that movie yet?