David Fleetwood - RG Admin

In case anyone wonders why communities do not trust #CoryDoctorow here he is defending his use of #fashtech by pointing out other bad people in the history of tech. It's likely how he justifies pushing the privacy and security nightmare #kagi as well.

LLMs were trained on extreme racism and reflect that. You cannot make a good case for using them unless you have created a new model and done the work. Adopting what's out there spreads white supremacy.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116097752778656003

Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])

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@reflex I found myself back on Kagi because nothing else was usable and with the cost of SSDs I can't afford to upgrade my homelab to host a search index.
Show threadDavid Fleetwood - RG AdminFeb 19
@KitsuneVixi I've been using https://noai.duckduckgo.com with reasonable results. Like Kagi it's just a search aggregator, now with an easy no AI option.
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@reflex Duckduckgo uses bing results, which has been blocking neocities sites.
Show threadDavid Fleetwood - RG AdminFeb 19

@KitsuneVixi That was already fixed and so far as I am aware didn't impact DDG. They use more than Bing as well, as you can read here: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources

I'm not advocating for DDG, I'm just saying that there are options that are safer than Kagi and reasonably reliable.

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@reflex It affected duckduckgo and Ecosia in my testing, and if I understand correctly it was only partially resolved.