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Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #85
Tijdreiziger wrote: post #46

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Expectations: file/photo sync, media server, ad blocking (Pi-hole). I saw that Synology has first-party apps for most of this (Synology Drive, Moments, Video).

> file/photo sync It's photo app is NPM garbage. Sure, I have an ancient ds115j (armv7@800Mhz, 256Mb RAM), but I couldn't use it. But despite it's ancient-ness I was able to update it to the latest Synology OS (DSM), which tells how S. is supporting their products. So be sure to get a version with enough RAM, I would go for 2Gb+ versions in your place, so avoid ds220j and ds218play, look at ds218 (without 'play' suff…

Thanks for the advice!

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by stuntkite »

alxjsn wrote: post #20

If you haven't heard of Brave Goggles ( https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart ) I highly recommend checking it out. Just being able to create the search index is a massive task, so being able to apply rules server-side to their "expanded recall set" will give you what most people building search engines want, which is to control the algorithm. We weren't able to do that until now since applying rules client-sid…

Interesting. Thank you for sharing. I’m excited to fork your repo.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by andirk »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #66
palata wrote: post #55

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Depends on your definition of "best browser" I guess... My best browser is Firefox, precisely because it is not based on Chromium.

yeah, multiple times i have asked people "why isnt brave a fork of firefox" and they say "its pita" and you need quick and easy way to customize, blah blah blah. then you have half a dozen firefox forks running absolutely fine, each one has its good and bad but the thing is, if these 1-2 man outfits can fork and release their own firefox forks with additional features/customizations, why cant brave? or do they don't…

They detail the reasons for moving to Chromium https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/ . I was also disappointed at first, but the benefits seem to be worth it, such as use of Chrome extensions.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by tecoholic »

johntash wrote: post #68
tecoholic wrote: post #44

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Self plug - If you want to skip bookmarking and go straight to indexing, I have a firefox extension for it - https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it

> Adds the current webpage to the local YACY index. This assumes you are running YaCy in localhost:8090. Is there a way to use this plugin with an instance of Yacy hosted somewhere other than localhost? I tried making a bookmarklet to do something similar, but never ended up getting it working.

The recent version supports configuring your own host from the extention's settings page. You don't have to build your own, just install from Firefox Add-ons site

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

andirk wrote: post #93
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #66

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yeah, multiple times i have asked people "why isnt brave a fork of firefox" and they say "its pita" and you need quick and easy way to customize, blah blah blah. then you have half a dozen firefox forks running absolutely fine, each one has its good and bad but the thing is, if these 1-2 man outfits can fork and release their own firefox forks with additional features/customizations, why cant brave? or do they don't…

They detail the reasons for moving to Chromium https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/ . I was also disappointed at first, but the benefits seem to be worth it, such as use of Chrome extensions.

sorry for not responding earlier..... my initial question still remains.

there is a "The benefits of moving from Muon to Chromium" so if you replace the word chromium with firefox, do you think any line would be wrong or a lie?

extensions are available in firefox just as easily so that sounds like a lame excuse.

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