I had been using DDG for years but switched to SearXNG last fall after reading about it on Lemmy. It’s a privacy focused meta-search engine that can even be self-hosted. It’s wildly customizable and I’ve been pretty happy with the results.

If you’re not interested in self-hosting, or just want to test drive it a bit, there are lots of public instances you can use as well.

https://github.com/searxng/searxng

List of public instances

They also released two “inspired by the movie hackers” albums that were just as good!

Nice username.

“Mess with the best, die like the rest.”

Lol thank you for making that, I had that meme in mind while I was writing that reply.

I mean, I do have RGB lights but it’s not because I’m a software engineer. I’m just a dork.

The article suggested it was a bug, not me. My use of it was only in reference to the article so it’s not a point I’m going to defend.

I agree. There’s also just no reason to give Meta the benefit of the doubt here. Bug or not they’ve done nothing to earn such a charitable response from anyone.

Two of my favorite things. Cats and The Simpsons. Now that’s what I call a cromulent post!

Not reading articles and just commenting on the headline. It’s extremely disappointing that habit carried over from reddit.

Also, shoutout to the !NoLawns@slrpnk.net community!

The article in the reddit post you shared is misleading. According to the S1 filed with the SEC, spez’s current base pay is $450,000; in 2023 he got roughly $792,000 in performance-based bonuses. The rest of that 193 million is options.

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Hack the planet!

The suspension cited platform manipulation and spam as its reasoning, which he wrote in his appeal that he had nothing to do with.

So the only conclusion we can draw here is that writing an article critical of Twitter because it’s overrun with (paid) spambots now constitutes “platform manipulation.”

Elon in 2022: I wanna get rid of all the spambots!

Elon in 2024: You’re banned for being mean to the spambots!

[Stefon voice] “San Francisco’s hottest club is X. This 24/7 dumpster fire’s got everything. Neo-nazis, degenerate gambling addicts, human Tesla coils. And is that Full House era Bob Saget doing stand up? No! It’s a whiny drug addled billionaire from South Africa crying about advertisers being woke.”

It’s always the same exact same lazy argument with corporate bootlickers.

“DoNt BuY iT!!!1!”

“CorPoRaTiOnS NeEd To MaKe MoNeY!!”

“YoU ArEnT EntTitLeD tO AnYThIng!!!”

“X,Y,Z IsNt A HuMaN RiGhT”

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because it’s a gradual death-march to pricing out the ad free tiers entirely. Right now we’re in the ‘illusion of choice’ phase. But ad free tiers will continue to become more and more expensive until one day corporations can turn around and justify removing them by blaming consumers. “We’re getting rid of our ad-free plans due to lack of consumer interest.” It won’t be a lack of interest. It’ll be a lack of affordability. And you can be damn sure once the ad-free plans are gone those ad based plans will end up priced at the rate for the old ad-free options. It’s corporate gaslighting and it’s happening right now.

Water… like from the toilet??