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  • The mentioned server side changes (e.g. A server move you mentioned but could also be server settings, provider settings, etc).

    I guess that is the case. According to https://searx.space/ the searx.be server is in Austria but might use some proxy to talk to Google and similar to avoid quick blocking. The maintainer of searx.be also maintains yewtu.be and that one uses proxies (The proxy names can be seen when blocking auto play of videos in Tor browser).

    Also getting results in Russian here since a few days. Usually it is either Swedish or Dutch. Never German.











  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlLix - a new fork of Nix
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    6 months ago

    https://forum.aux.computer/t/the-future-of-nixcpp-lix/483

    The announcement resolves one of my last fears for Aux: development on Nix itself. It is no secret that the number of people knowledgeable about the project and are willing to work on this CPP codebase is small. You have probably seen me mention multiple times by now that @sig_cli needs all of the help that we can get. Lix resolves this entirely with a trusted team of experts. This means that Aux is now able to remove Nix development from our priorities and can instead collaborate with Lix moving forward.









  • The deal has always been that targeted advertising is how you pay for a free service.

    Always is a heck of a long time. Decades ago when ads on websites slowly became popular it was just ads. But no personalized targeting.

    This isn’t exclusive to Facebook.

    Offering an ad free experience for a subscription fee is an extremely common practice. Do people really expect to be able to use an entertainment platform for free?

    Extremely common practice does not make it good nor does it make it a good reason to normalize or ignore these things. For example exploitation in labor and in housing is also extremely common practice. No reason to make exploitation on the Internet seem like a fair game and expand it further. Sustainability should be a key word here in my point of view.