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hyperreal@warandpeas Hey, that's pretty cool. I think I'll try that!
@hyperreal We've been using it for a while now and it has been pretty good in most of the cases.
Heliograph@warandpeas welcome and isn't it a fantastic idea 😀 #ecosia
Alejandro_P
Talya (she/her) 🏳️⚧️✡️@Alejandro_P @warandpeas
yeah. allegedly their current AI is green (i doubt it, but that's a post of its own), but for well over a year they just used OpenAI, which is definitely not green.
lost all faith i had in them after that.
yeah. allegedly their current AI is green (i doubt it, but that's a post of its own), but for well over a year they just used OpenAI, which is definitely not green.
lost all faith i had in them after that.
Dźwiedziu@Yuvalne
Found the below post, where they claim they use Mistral, which *maybe* uses the French power grid, which is very much low-carbon¹.
But, and that's a very large “but”, AI is not effective computationally (see the Claude Code leak), thus energetically.
And that is power we could use somewhere else, like electrifying carbon emitting industries.
https://support.ecosia.org/article/1006-ai-search
1. https://www.rte-france.com/en/data-publications/eco2mix/power-generation-energy-source
@Yuvalne @warandpeas yeah but the thing is there's not really an alternative. The others are bad really or super hard to use.
And hopefully we can annoy them enough so they ditch this "feature"
And hopefully we can annoy them enough so they ditch this "feature"
@Alejandro_P @warandpeas the alternative is to not opt for the machines that make computing in general and searching in particular significantly less efficient.
afx@warandpeas I used the Zen browser for a while, and it had Ecosia as a default search engine. Does not hold a candle to Google in &udm14 mode. Unfortunately ;-(
starrylight@afx @warandpeas do you mean zen browser?
@starrywavelength @warandpeas Silly me, yes Zen. Post fixed. Thanks.
Perkele@afx @warandpeas you Ecosia uses bing and google, you can choose which one in the settings.
@warandpeas I'll stick with startpage
Bart "Foss42"@warandpeas It's just Bing, right ? Except the money goes to trees 😀
Sir Parmesan@warandpeas I am a Qwant enjoyer myself