The Degraded Search Engine
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@jordan @davidrevoy word of mouth will always be the best publicity. I also like feed agreggators like bubbles.town and powrss.com . But those are more for discovery than search/research.@sunbeam_rider @davidrevoy @jordan FYI Bubbles is coded by AI: https://bubbles.town/faq#:~:text=claude
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@scottytrees A sort of "Columbo, but it's an AI Parrot" type of series?

Perhaps more Inspector Gadget than Columbo?
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The Degraded Search Engine
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/071.html#bonus
@davidrevoy Nice highlight !
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The Degraded Search Engine
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/071.html#bonus
@davidrevoy what's your number one search engine rn?
i use duckduckgo but it's kinda annoying that my country block it so i have to use cloudflare
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@davidrevoy what's your number one search engine rn?
i use duckduckgo but it's kinda annoying that my country block it so i have to use cloudflare
@lazcht Same for the search engine; DDG + ublock Origin on Firefox, and some AI additional blocklist. It's not that I particularly like it, it just remained there as the "less terrible option" and kind of stuck this way in my habits.
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I think the user @Linux is the person who published this list, and that was their goal, trying to find businesses that were truly not owned by Americans. That has to be a daunting task, and I appreciate that someone went through the trouble.
@Zelda @Linux @davidrevoy Thanks for posting. I've seen a number of such lists and they're incredibly helpful. There are many people who understand the need to get off US tech and have no idea how. (The other overwhelming task: How to convince people like my husband and son that it actually matters.)
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@xarvos @simondev I'm not sure the ublock origin really filters the results, but I use this list: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/tree/main
@davidrevoy @xarvos thanks!!! i didn't know
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@davidrevoy @scottytrees That'd be hilarious

@Longplay_Games @davidrevoy @scottytrees
You know, Leonie Swann wrote Gray a couple years ago:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54877903-gray
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@Konqi Haha, true. Unconscious decision here; maybe the books have a secret box inside them for all the cookies of partners.
...and it makes me think now of this old episode https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/016.html
Everything start to be connected!Is https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1099/keeper-of-forbidden-knowledge playing in the same universe?
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@sunbeam_rider @davidrevoy @jordan FYI Bubbles is coded by AI: https://bubbles.town/faq#:~:text=claude
@greytheearthling @davidrevoy @sunbeam_rider "For writing the code itself, I use Claude Code as a coding assistant during development. That is a tool used to produce the source, not a system the running site depends on. The deployed Bubbles never makes calls to any AI service at runtime. "
Disappointing, but not to take away from the premise.
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I think the user @Linux is the person who published this list, and that was their goal, trying to find businesses that were truly not owned by Americans. That has to be a daunting task, and I appreciate that someone went through the trouble.
@Zelda @lmgenealogy @davidrevoy
Thanks for the shutout. Always looking to expand that list too.

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@Zelda @lmgenealogy @davidrevoy
Thanks for the shutout. Always looking to expand that list too.

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