falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.

It's called #MarginaliaSearch.

It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.

What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.

The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.

There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.

It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every #searchengine now shows you the same twelve #monetizedpages."

https://marginalia-search.com/

I don’t have a smartphone…
…or, at least, I wish I didn’t.

https://ploum.net/2026-09-02-i_dont_have_a_smartphone.html

My #talk from this year's #FrOSCon is online now:

https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2026-3598-canvassing_for_the_commons

You can find the slides over here:
https://pkgbuild.com/~dvzrv/presentations/froscon2026/

#Funding #PrototypeFund #SovereignTechFund #ArchLinux

The Prototype Fund is growing!

With “Resilience,” we’re now funding not only data security and software infrastructure but also alternatives to tech giants and their centralized ecosystems.
Under “Up and Coming,” we aim to specifically support people who are new(ish) to the #FOSS world.

In total, this means up to 19 million euros in additional funding for software developed by the civil society! 🎉

More information on our blog:
➡️ https://www.prototypefund.de/en/blog/ptf-3-0

Hey, everybody? I get that it's frustrating when Codeberg is down. But please remember that it's a community project, and that the expectation of "everything is up 100% of the time" was created by exactly those tech companies that were killing off communities for the past 20 years. 100% uptime was never true before Facebook/Google/etc. came around, not even close.

And it's even more difficult to keep things up nowadays; there is *so much more* malicious traffic coming from the internet now than back then, especially since the rise of LLM scrapers.

So if you want Codeberg to be down less often, might I suggest reaching out to them about volunteering instead? Not right now, because they're probably pretty busy getting things back up, but once things have been stabilized a bit. Then you yourself can help improve the uptime!

#Codeberg

Is AI Profitable Yet?, https://isaiprofitable.com/.

No.

It doesn’t count neither the environmental, nor the social impacts.

#ai #cost

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Take action NOW: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/extreme-heat-event-london-cancelled-b3001379.html

The Software Freedom Conservancy's LLM-backed generative AI recommendations

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078521/ #LWN #Linux

Anubis has a pretty solid business strategy:

1) Release open source software for free
2) Add catgirl branding
3) Charge companies to remove catgirl branding

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper

Stenberg: curl summer of bliss

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077946/ #LWN #Linux #security