Does this have a way of sharing a directory publicly?

I hope that goes well for them. It’s hard and extremely expensive, which is why there’s so few good search engines and half of them just use Bing’s API.

Do you have a source for that? I think it’s nowhere near 95% of sites given there’s several major providers that aren’t AWS or Cloudflare (eg Hetzner, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Wordpress.com, and a bunch more)

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 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.

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.

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 :)

Bitwarden and Vaultwarden are different products. Vaultwarden is API-compatible with the Bitwarden client apps, but it’s a completely separate project.

Both are self hostable. Bitwarden is designed for large deployments (like companies with tens of thousands of employees) so the design is very different to Vaultwarden which is designed for small deployments.

I used to self-host Bitwarden but switched to Vaultwarden a while back.

In the Bitwarden Android app, make sure all the autofill settings are enabled, including accessibility (which helps with autofill in apps that don’t officially support it). Sometimes, system updates seem to disable them.

Also note that Android apps need to explicitly support autofill. Not all apps do. The “use accessibility” option is supposed to help with apps that don’t officially support autofill.

These seem to be the two most commonly supported distros by laptop manufacturers. Framework officially support these two distros, too (they have unofficial guides for a bunch of other distros though)

Wow, a post from 2001 that’s still online today. You don’t see that often any more!

Encryption would prevent it - that’s what I meant :)

I think the trick is to convince someone to send that string, so the modem sees it coming from the computer. Similar to tricking someone into pressing Alt+F4 or Ctrl+Alt+Del twice on Windows 9x.

XFree86 was such a tacky name