Marginalia

@marginalia
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I've built the indie internet #searchengine #marginaliasearch. Working full time on this project. Kind of a librarian of the weird corners of the web.
Website, blog, etc.https://www.marginalia.nu/
Search Enginehttps://search.marginalia.nu/
Encyclopediahttps://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/
Githttps://git.marginalia.nu/

I added a thing where users can now suggest domains to be included in the random exploration section of the search engine.

This has been a very popular part of the search engine that I literally slapped together in 2 hours and left to its own devices with extremely little effort put into maintaining it or keeping the domains fresh. Until now that is, I guess.

🚔 Stop right there, criminal scum! 🚔

Not uploading everything you write, prefer, and think onto the Internet in an easily scraped format is *stealing* training data from the AI companies!

I actually have the tech to make website screenshots in the search engine dismiss their GDPR notices, but I have zero inclination to do so.

I low key want to turn my website into Myst, but the puzzles are also there as CAPTCHAS, to keep the AI scrapers out.

You want to read my recipe for chicken soup do you, well I hope you've made some coffee and brought your notebook and remembered to write down the hint in in the margins of the page about my cool stick collection.

I think we're back up now.

We may(?) also have ipv6 support. I have no way of verifying as the server is the only machine I have access to with ivp6 capabilities... but it might work?

Search engine is going offline for a short bit in solidarity with GitHub.

(also for a bit of server maintenance).

Been replacing the graph representation for the link graph with a CSR implementation. It sure is a lot better than what I was doing before.

Biggest improvement to date is the website similarity calculation, which used to take literal days to finish, and now finishes in an hour.

Memory locality is pretty good.

LinkedIn Park - In Hindsight It Doesn't Even Affect Our KPIs.

This will be very funny to a small number of people.

I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.

It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).

What will they think of next?