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Re: Try Switching to Kagi

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Post by Hikikomori »

dhc02 wrote: post #470
Hikikomori wrote: post #362

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Switched to nebula when they removed YouTube lite and the price was double. Got no ads on my devices anyway.

For me, YouTube Premium (for family) is so worth it because: - It removes ads for my kids, which are going to watch YouTube no matter what I do - It includes YouTube Music, so I don't need a separate Spotify subscription - It sends money to creators based on what I proportionally spend time watching, rather than based on how valuable of an audience I'm deemed to be when an ad slot is auctioned - It is a signal that I…

Rather send money directly to creators rather than filtering it through Google.

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

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Post by eightys3v3n »

precommunicator wrote: post #412
carlosjobim wrote: post #278

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No, Google Maps is miles ahead of all competitors.

In what ways when compared to OSM?

Here is your comment should you wish to copy it and try again: I never run into a business that doesn't exist on Google Maps and I rarely run into incorrect hours. I constantly can't find businesses that I'm looking for on OSM and they never have correct hours.

I use OSM for many directions, after looking it up in Google Maps and copying the plus code because it doesn't come up in OSM reliably.

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

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Post by bmacho »

freedomben wrote: post #468
infecto wrote: post #462

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And what if they simply missed that it continued charging with the stripe email? It’s a dark pattern that they should fix.

They are fixing it. The only debate in this thread is whether they should automatically refund everybody who might have been affected, regardless whether that person intended to continue or not. That's a pretty different thing.

I don't see how this is a debate. People unsubscreibed Kagi, they never subscribed again, billing them is illegal, period. (And even if it were legal, why would anyone want to that in the first place? If I operated a business I most certainly wouldn't want to bill people that are not my users.)

"wHaT iF tHeY wAnTeD tO sTaRt pAyInG?" was just a joke on twisted cartoon scammer logic, not an argument.

Anyone that wants to use Kagi again can click on the subscribe button.

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

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Post by ruszki »

latexr wrote: post #456
throwaway314155 wrote: post #340

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If there is perhaps just _one_ thing that we can all admit that LLM's are good at, it should be bash one-liners for common tasks. Which is to say, I highly recommend using an LLM for exploring commands to run in a terminal. Once past the learning curve, it is a good way to avoid dozens to hundreds of cryptic short-options (just ask for only long options).

> If there is perhaps just _one_ thing that we can all admit that LLM's are good at, it should be bash one-liners for common tasks. Sorry to disappoint, but no can do on that agreement. The web is full of bad advice for shell scripting one liners, because too many people fumble their way to a semi-workable inefficient solution for their specific problem, then instead of attempting to refine it and make it better by r…

The interesting thing is that there are objective measurements about code (like unnecessary commands in answers, or code which flat out never worked), in which generally people are not great. The amount of bad answers on Stackoverflow and on most of the blogspam is staggering. Even reference documentations are bad or wrong many times. LLMs work with that. They won’t be better than that.

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

prirai wrote: post #461
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #262

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Currently, the script looks like this #!/bin/sh 0x $1|yy084|yy030|yy073 "0x" is another Almquist shell script that can search about 63 different servers that return search results, e.g., Google, DDG, and so on.^1 yy___ are UNIX filters written in C. 0x uses some yy proggrams as well, e.g., yy025, along with sed and a TCP client, e.g., tcpclient, netcat, socat, bssl, openssl, etc. yy084 outputs SERPs as SQL. This make…

> Currently, the script looks like this > > #!/bin/sh > 0x $1|yy084|yy030|yy073 > > "0x" is another Almquist shell script that can search about 63 different servers that return search results, e.g., Google, DDG, and so on.^1 > > yy___ are UNIX filters written in C. > > 0x uses some yy proggrams as well, e.g., yy025, along with sed and a TCP client, e.g., tcpclient, netcat, socat, bssl, openssl, etc. > > yy084 outputs…

Details are just another computer user, not a "developer", writing their own utilties. Continually editing, updating to suit personal needs. No prerequisites except flex and C89 compiler. Generally, static binaries under 50k.

A search on one of the search engines that indexes HN may provide some pointers. Something like site:ycombinator.com plus [name of filter].

Not sure about "interesting" but these are portable across OS, low resource requirements. Faster than sed. Boring stuff that works for me year after year.

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

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Post by prirai »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #475
prirai wrote: post #461

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> Currently, the script looks like this > > #!/bin/sh > 0x $1|yy084|yy030|yy073 > > "0x" is another Almquist shell script that can search about 63 different servers that return search results, e.g., Google, DDG, and so on.^1 > > yy___ are UNIX filters written in C. > > 0x uses some yy proggrams as well, e.g., yy025, along with sed and a TCP client, e.g., tcpclient, netcat, socat, bssl, openssl, etc. > > yy084 outputs…

Details are just another computer user, not a "developer", writing their own utilties. Continually editing, updating to suit personal needs. No prerequisites except flex and C89 compiler. Generally, static binaries under 50k. A search on one of the search engines that indexes HN may provide some pointers. Something like site:ycombinator.com plus [name of filter]. Not sure about "interesting" but these are portable ac…

I think I found something, thanks will give it a try

Re: Try Switching to Kagi

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Post by [deleted] »

wfn wrote: post #421
switch007 wrote: post #373

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And according to the link below, the Kagi founder/CEO claims Yandex is a private company headquartered in Kazakhstan, unrelated to the Russian government. https://ioc.exchange/@troed/113311987220115248

Yes and (for posterity / those lazy to read the linked Mastodon thread), if you read through the linked thread, you see that is nonsense and Yandex is very much a Russian business continually adjusting results based on Russian government input (to cross-check, see Wikipedia on Yandex).

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Re: Try Switching to Kagi

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Post by idiotsecant »

jzb wrote: post #281
idiotsecant wrote: post #242

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10 dollars is like, a sandwich. Access to your search engine for a month is less useful than a sandwich?

The thing is, subscriptions do add up. Lots of folks are carrying a bunch of $10 a month subscriptions that individually are no big but when added up start tacking on $100-$200 a month to their bills. I'm a big proponent of paying for things instead of using ad-supported things, so I don't mind paying for Kagi -- but I also have subscriptions and other monthly payments that make me think hard before signing up for a…

If your point is that buying many things can add up to be expensive...yes? At what price point would you stop saying that is true? If it's 2 dollars someone would be listing all the things they buy for 2 dollars that add up to get expensive. Let's leave out the price of all our only fans subscriptions and consider the thing we're talking about
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