This is what I was thinking.

Syncthing will be the quickest to set up.

There’s a potential for collisions but that would likely be manageable.

I like the fash suffix.

Techfash doesn’t have the right flow.

What about gigafash.

On one hand I’m glad someone is still playing by the rules.

On the other hand I suspect that their FoI requests will be ignored.

Searx just proxies other engines, so the results are the same as the upstream results.

I’ve never really had a problem with results from any engine TBH.

The main thing I’ve learned over the last few years with Searx is that some instances are terrible while others are great. Some are slow, and often get blocked and take days for the admin to get a new IP or whatever. Right now I’m using perennialte.ch and it’s been great. They also redirect results at reddit to an alternative frontend which is a nice touch.

Yeah I think most of my searches start with the name of the site I want results from.

I was with kagi for a year.

It was fine.

Their CEO is an asshole though. There was that thing where he went a bit nutty over some mild criticism. I don’t remember the details.

Anyhoo. Searx is nice for the moment.

Unfortunately Americans will suffer regardless of their allegiance.

I’m so stoked to see this here. It was my first thought when I saw the thread.

It was a stand out experience from my childhood.

My partner and I had our first children (twins) about a year ago. They’re great.

Before then, I rarely if ever went to this type of store. We don’t have a local Target but we have K-Mart which I think is comparable in Australia.

Honestly I think we’ve done pretty well at buying most of what we need second hand, and then selling it on once it’s no longer required. We also get toys from a local toy library which is amazing.

That said, I’ve sadly become a semi-regular K-Mart shopper because I require some of the cheap plastic junk they sell. A good example is shoes, I can buy a pair of shoes for the kids for less than the cost of a cup of coffee.

The thing is, everything about the store is repulsive. It’s basically a plastic shop. They sell plastic. Even the clothing and shoes is polyester and nylon and plasticised rubber. Also, since we’re here, if I’m really honest about it I would have to assume that the person who made my kids shoes is probably being exploited. That sucks.

Anyhow, I don’t really have a point, just having a whinge and acknowledging that target / kmart is definitely the worst part of having a child.

Not really. The explanation is somewhat complex.

Although target already has the money once a gift card has been purchased, they will not recognise the money as revenue until you use the card.

Suppose my lawn mowing guy charges $50 each time he mows my lawn, and he comes 12 times a year. In January I just transfer him $600 because I don’t want to muck around with smaller payments all the time.

When he calculates his “revenue” for January, should he include the whole $600? It would be more accurate to set aside the $550 he hadn’t really earned yet, and recognise that once he actually does the work.

There’s more geaky accounting stuff I could say, but in summary if you want to send a message to Target management, refrain from using gift cards during the boycott.

they’re especially stupid

You know, I always try to avoid thinking that people with different opinions to mine are “stupid”, but it’s getting more and more difficult to credit republicans with being reasonable.

Yeah ok so there’s a bit of a back story that I couldn’t be bothered explaining before.

During Covid our premier at that time was from the same centre-left labor party, Mark McGowan. We had an initial 2 week lock down, but thereafter we didn’t have any significant covid infections at all for 18 months or so (I think).

Our premier, McGowan just kept the borders closed and we all just went about our lives with no restrictions. The federal government gave everyone heaps of money (because people in other states actually needed it) and the economy just went nuts. Everyone could afford all the new fancy things. No one could go on overseas holidays so everyone spent all their money at local bars and restaurants and it was just an epic love fest of fun times and good things. I don’t recall the numbers exactly but I think something like 90% of people had 2x vaccinations by the time the borders eventually opened.

Our federal government and other state premiers gave our state premier a lot of shit because keeping the border closed made them look like idiots and it wasn’t great for the Australian economy. Our PM at that time (centre right) made a comment about how it was time for Western Australians to come out of our cave, which ultimately cost him the next federal election. Anyhow, by the time of the last state election Western Australian’s were lovingly referring to McGowan as “state daddy” because it was nice to have a rep telling everyone else to fuck off because we’re safe in our space thanks very much.

That’s why the Labor party won that last election 3 years ago with a bonkers majority. I will always vote Labor but even I can acknowledge that having such a huge majority doesn’t really support a healthy democracy.

Anyhow, McGowan resigned on good terms and stepped aside for our current Premier. He’s not state daddy but he’s cut from the same cloth IMO.

Sorry I don’t get the joke.

sorry its: https://searx.perennialte.ch/

The point of LMGTFY is to obnoxiously remind someone

Nah, I’m pretty sure the point of LMGTFY is to identify yourself as an obnoxious asshole.

If you couldn’t be bothered providing a link then you could’ve just not responded.

It would’ve been easy enough to just link whatever you were looking at.

Instead you went out of your way to make the person asking feel silly.

Searx can provide a much better experience.

For example, on the instance I’m using if a search result is a Google thread, the link will direct you to a redlib reddit proxy.

Surely it has to be the paid APIs. You can’t build a service hoping Google won’t notice your bots running searches.

Hmm. You realise we’re talking about Australia right? We have some of the best universal healthcare, and social security in the world.

Additives like fluoride in water, iodine in salt, and folic acid in flour disproportionately benefit people with lower incomes because in many cases their nutrition and other health care is not great due to lifestyle preferences, or co-morbidities that are resistant to health interventions like substance abuse or mental illness or cultural norms.

Another problem in Australia is low population density. A small town might be several hundred kilometers from the nearest dentist. If everyone in that place agrees to fluoridate the water, where’s the harm in that ?

We do have government funded free dental services, although I admit the wait times can be considerable.

I think we’re dealing in generalisations.

Sure police forces have been used at various times to protect capitalist interests, and to protect vanguardist dictators.

Just thinking about my (indirect) interactions with police here in Western Australia in the last few decades.

• A friend of mine was charged with driving while intoxicated.
• They showed up to my neighbours house to resolve a domestic dispute.
• They charged an acquaintance with theft.
• I reported a theft at my home which they investigated.

I guess theft could be related to “protecting capitalist interests” but we’re not talking about the theft of someone’s million dollar yacht or gold bullion or something. My acquaintance stole some tools from a construction site, and some nice shoes were stolen from my front verandah.

IMO all of these things are just social harmony type things.

Actually this is how occupy was undone. They couldn’t agree on demands and in the end everyone just got frustrated with each other and the whole thing fizzled out. There was conjecture at the time that CIA plants frustrated this process.