If that’s true, why bother “monitoring” a search engine? This whole list screams of somebody who knows nothing about tech put out a vague RFP and a contractor pulled a list of “top sites” and used it to justify an egregious proposal cost.
DOGE, if you’re looking for waste and fraud, perhaps here’s a good source.
I think one big issue is much of the cheap debt is loans people have defaulted on. So you have to stop paying the debt, hope for minimal ramifications before it hits the open market, then buy it back up at a discount, assuming you have the funds laying around to afford the discounted rate.
Loans backed by property (e.g., home, car) which can be repossessed tend to not be as heavily discounted. So its really just if you have massive credit card, student loan, or medical debt, and are willing to put up with harassment from debt collectors on the hope that it’ll be bundled into something worth less than your individual debt
You underestimate the power of a “Scan here for 5% off your order” sticker
How else am I gonna find out they dropped a minor update to WoW and added more loot boxes for your loot boxes in Overwatch (which I assume they will just start calling 3, despite any major change to engine or gameplay)
It’s much lower risk, someone dedicated could prove you accessed a seedbox, but it would be a lot harder to prove you violated a copyright
You have my phone number? Then why do you never call?
Mark my words, they’ll regret this when Y2.1K rolls around and they have to rejigger their entire supply chain to add a 1 to all their model numbers.
Ahh yes, consolidation and centralization, core pillars of the FOSS movement.
if OP doesn’t keep their honey in a bucket in the basement they should be fine
First time on the internet huh? Pretty good odds OP is right now trying to figure out where to store that 5-gallon bucket of honey he just purchased, and that basement is looking mighty tempting.
In terms of result quality? In my opinion, based on my particular search habits:
Kagi > SearXNG > Brave > Startpage/Google > DDG/Ecosia/Bing
Everyone is going to have their own opinions on each of those companies, but from a results lens, that’s what I find to be most/least effective.
Like all Google products, they will still make a halfhearted attempt to make it as useful as they can before absolutely destroying it with ads
Guessing Edge by default sent you to Bing, no surprise the DDG results look similar, given that they use Bing under he hood. They shuffle rankings slightly, but it’s the same index.
You can also use Ecosia, if your prefer a different shade of lipstick on your pig search results.
There’s not really a strong player in the open source search space.
Mwmbl exists, but per their own readme:
The quality is a long way’s off from matching the commercial engines at the moment
Kagi provides the source code for many of their services, but is not truly open source, especially because at its core, it relies on applying its own rankings to other’s indexes.
That said, search is a space where the old adage rings true:
If you’re not paying for it; you are the product!
For what it’s worth, I find value in my Kagi subscription.
Wanna bet my salary doesn’t go up 6.2% when they do that?
Her* salary.
Public tech funds are an amazing use of tax dollars, I would love it if we had more investment in these systems!
Public mail has protections from unlawful access, but is subject to the same search and seizure rules as everything else if presented with a lawful warrant.
The odds of a public email with true E2EE seems damn near impossible to me.
I’ve definitely been there, but usually because I’m not the one choosing the food. When you’re picking you tend to have a little more wiggle room, and people tend to be a little more accepting of free food so you might want to be a little more strategic with how you frame things up.
E.g., instead of “do you want Burger King or McDonald’s” try “I’m gonna grab Burger King, do you want anything?” If the team pushes back a simple “unfortunately McD doesn’t have any vegan options and I’m starving.”
Most people will understand, especially because you clearly eat lunch with them regularly enough they should know you’re vegan.
The pizza one is tough but we’ve all been there before when menu items aren’t clearly labeled, but all I can recommend is using Happy Cow to identify restaurants nearby with vegan options, or calling ahead to see if the place you’re thinking of has vegan options before offering it as an option to the team.