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alxjsn··on YaCy – your own search engine
If you haven't heard of Brave Goggles (https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart) I highly recommend checking it out. Just being able to create the search index is a massive task, so being able to apply rules server-side to their "expanded recall set" will give you what most people building search engines want, which is to control the algorithm. We weren't able to do that until now since applying rules client-side doesn't work well on a small search result set.

Related: I created a tool to create Goggles using subreddits as a signal source for domains: https://github.com/forcesunseen/narwhalizer

alxjsn··on The world needs a non-profit search engine
I recently made a tool to create Brave Goggles using subreddits as a signal source. I already use a netsec goggle for daily searching.

https://github.com/forcesunseen/narwhalizer

alxjsn··on Carbonating at Home (2015)
There’s the Fizz Giz if you don’t want to make something like this yourself. http://www.sodastreamalternative.com/
alxjsn··on Comcast Is Down
Down for me in Chicago this morning.
alxjsn··on Ask HN: What's your approach to personal data archiving and backups?
I use Seafile, but that’s not really important since you can use any other Dropbox style app. Although, everything is stored on ZFS locally in a RAID-Z2 configuration with native ZFS encryption. I can lose up to two drives out of six in my setup with no data loss. Then I take snapshots automatically and push incremental updates to a third-party server and since they are encrypted they can’t read the data either.
alxjsn··on Show HN: I made a new kind of Bible app
Bible Project (https://bibleproject.com) also has a lot of great content they are creating along with mobile/web apps (https://www.readscripture.org).
alxjsn··on [dead]
Same here with 1.1.1.1 from Chicago
alxjsn··on Ask HN: I'm declaring dotfile bankruptcy. How to start from scratch effectively?
This is the way I do it: https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/30/dotfiles.html

Doesn't require anything beyond Git, which is really nice.

alxjsn··on Turkey’s ‘voluptuous’ breakfast for one [video]
vs. a San Francisco Soylent breakfast
alxjsn··on YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
Or an earthquake.
alxjsn··on Work, Sleep, Family, Fitness, or Friends: Pick 3
Sleep, sleep, and sleep. I win.
alxjsn··on Why I Gave Up on OpenBSD (2012)
The domain name doesn't really add credibility to the post...
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