Baroque MongooseThis is an 11th century hospital based in an abbey. I love the little monk at bottom right; he's quite clearly saying, "It's fine. He's going to be all right!"
Strypey"The search engine is open source with an AGPL license. The sources can be perused at https://git.marginalia.nu/"
https://marginalia-search.com/
This is a good approach. @marginalia's code is currently on GritHub (giveupgithub.org!). But if they move it elsewhere all they need to do is redirect this URL to the new forge, and any links to it will still work. Same if they decide to self-host a forge, then find it too distracting, and move back to third-party hosting.
Steven BersonJust discovered for myself (even though apparently it is 5 years old) another rare bird - an independent search engine running its own webcrawler & index (most alternatives like DuckDuckGo & Startpage just use Bing or Google's) - and this one is foss, & returned some nicely relevant answers in my quick tests.
https://marginalia-search.com/
Nice to have another option! (along with Mojeek)
#Marginalia #searchengine #search #foss #degoogle #digitalsovereignty
Marginalia Search
Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
AngelaOkay, I have not tried it myself yet but this comes highly recommended. If you want a search engine that focuses on text, I'm hearing that https://marginalia-search.com/ may be what you want. It's supposed to focus on text stuff so you aren't flooded with videos.
It's supposed to be able to find "old" stuff in a way that more popular search engines don't (anymore).
Marginalia Search
Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
Unusually, this is not an original. It's a modern copy of a 10th-century piece which was presumably in poor condition. I haven't seen the original, but I'm assuming this is a faithful copy... well, mostly. I'm pretty certain mediaeval scribes didn't have access to a metallic light blue. The figures, though, look *very* authentic.
A lovely 12th-century illuminated capital today. I think the expression and the body language of the woman on the left are absolutely priceless.
C.Oh, the connection between magic and mathematics is well known. @cstross has written a fair bit about events involving applied computational demonology, for example.
If there really is no comment syntax for magic spells, that's unfortunate. It means practitioners probably end up scrawling their notes to themselves as marginalia, and I don't know if the magic could leak across from the main spell or what undesirable side-effects that might have.
#magic #spell #mathematics #computation #AppliedComputationalDemonology #ComputationalDemonology #marginalia #oops #SideEffect
grateful wolf@ArchaeoIain Wild animals at war in the Breviary of Renaud and Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305. (British Library, Yates Thompson 8, f. 294r.) #marginalia https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/naughty-nuns-flatulent-monks-and-other-surprises-of-sacred-medieval-manuscripts/
A slightly unusual one today, partly because it's a full page, and partly because it's in English. This is a lovely 12th-century page from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales".
Doom ScrollerA dubious inscription in a copy of Shakespeare's Coriolanus courtesy of P.u.K.
