bugsmith

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[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thank you, that's very kind of you - and I completely agree, healthcare works are so undercompensated for what they do, and yet so vital. I feel the least they deserve is a Christmas meal to celebrate the end of the year together.

I really appreciate your offer to contribute and share this on.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mostly browse via the website on a desktop. For mobile, I use a mix of Jerboa and Lemmy Sync, the latter has much better moderation tools currently.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I have not seen it - I will be watching it tomorrow evening, thanks for sharing this.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've added you as a mod. I'll also stick around as a mod on this one for a while. I think this has potential to be a valuable community.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I went with "Accessibility" as it is shorter (so perhaps more accessible?).

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This has reached the threshold, so I have created the community: !a11y@programming.dev

@pylapp@programming.dev, if you wish to moderate this community then make a post there and let me know here.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

The community has been created here: !ada@programming.dev. If you go ahead and make a post there, I will make you a moderator and transfer the community.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Done. I've also transferred the community to you and dropped from the mod team. Feel free to update the side bar, add some rules etc.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Community created at !erlang@programming.dev. Alex, if you want to mod this community, then make a post there and I'll add you.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

You could implement 'drive sync' giving options of NextCloud, GDrive, Dropbox, etc

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It doesn't really matter, but worth knowing, only a small amount of your national insurance goes toward NHS costs. The NHS is primarily funded by general taxation. Your National Insurance contributions largely go to paying for state pensions.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

Well, the reality is, search costs money. Quite a lot of money it seems.

So that is either paid for by you, or by someone else. Nobody is going to run search as a charity. So it's going to be paid for by parties interested in paying for your attention.

Even if you run ad blockers or use meta search engines like searx, you are going to be finding results by companies that have paid to be there.

I am a heavy search user. My search quantity is reasonably large just from personal use (I'm a curious dude, what can I say?) but my professional use of search as a software developer is staggering some days. My anecdotal experience is that that Google search has been declining in quality for years, and especially over the last two or three. DuckDuckGo is a nice alternative for privacy (potentially), but I while I find myself feeling less in a walled garden with them, I don't actually find their results to be any better than Google's.

I have tried Kagi recently. So far, I really like it. I genuinely feel like I get good results (read: find something quickly that is relevant to what I searched). I love their lensed searches that let you search the indie-web, and I love that they let you add weightings to websites that you trust.

It is expensive, no doubt. But for a certain audience that relies on quality web search, prefers to not be walled in by paying search engine optimizers and values paying for a product rather than opting to be the product, Kagi offers a solution.

Having said that, I would love to see the cost come down and make it more accessible to the many and I appreciate that for most people, the "free" search engines are good enough.

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