• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
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    13 hours ago

    I pay for Metager and i do really recommend it. You pay a pittance per search while being free of the crap that infests the net. Kagi comes with it’s own set of issues.

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      11 hours ago

      I’ll look into Metager as this is the first I’ve heard of it.

      What set of issues do you see with Kagi? It’s the best I’ve encountered as of late, but if there’s more I should consider; I’d like to learn.

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          1 hour ago

          Thank you for sharing. I do now recall a couple of the items you addressed, and I’ll have to keep others in mind.

          We can’t have anything nice… google, digg, Reddit, github, Kagi, proton mail. —at one point in time these were good. The rot or trajectory of rot seems inevitable.

          I’m not anti AI, but it doesn’t need to be in everything all the time. It shouldn’t obfuscate data sources. It shouldn’t be allowed to consume and gather everything breaking laws that would apply to any individual and ought to be enforced for any corporate entity.

          Pointing an AI at a larger company’s documentation or feeding a local one a largish manual and using it to figure out how or why 2, 3, or 4 parts work together has been useful for me in the past. Again where I can then get to the data to learn for myself.

          Letting the pattern recognization machine (AI) assess a logfile or 3 that are intertwined to help find issues has been helpful.

          Injecting it into every internet search where I never asked is wasteful and stupid.

          • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
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            41 minutes ago

            Just wanted to make sure you know that this isn’t my blog.

            I agree. Machine learning is something very useful! It’s sad that the moment a computer was able to spit out coherent sentences, humanity lost their minds. I specifically have a grudge against Altman and Amodei - the intentionally misleading statements suggestive of this being the way of getting an AGI really did a number on society.