saltysalt

A LNG terminal would help. Lots of bad infrastructure decisions have left us extremely exposed to those external shocks you mentioned.

Another Irishman here, completely agree with your comment. My domestic gas and electric bills have never been higher, insane inflation for nothing more than political virtue signalling.

This is not a design decision, it's legislation.

When did we get to vote on this?

It's sad to see such big brother crap in Linux, which sees like the exact opposite of the hacker ethos it was originally built upon.

Oh no! I just finished reading Hyperion this week and it has become one of my favorite books of all time. I will treasure my signed copy more so now, RIP.

Looks neat! Does it require much resources to run locally?

I huge Lucene index for storage and search, with a custom crawler that I wrote myself. It's a fun engineering problem.

I'm working on the language improvements presently, but I need to clean out a lot of bad entries in my index. In essence what I am trying to say is many servers ignore "Accept-Language" so you have to rely on other means of detecting the language of the page reliably, e.g. inspecting the body content of the response. It's a non-trivial problem online.

Yes correct, that is where the name comes from.

It's a difficult problem to fix, you can set an Accept-Language header on crawl requests but his only works if the target website uses "Content Negotiation." Some sites ignore headers and determine language based on the IP address (Geo-IP) or the URL structure (e.g., /es/ vs /en/), basically a mess...

Pet project just for fun, thanks!

It does not use WordPress.

Thanks, mad is fun for me! It costs me nothing if it fails.

Nice find, will review!

Couldn't agree more! The early pioneers of the Internet were hackers and tinkers, I've tried to maintain the same ethos.

Appreciate the detailed feedback! A lot of the JS trickery and URL shenanigans I'm doing is to prevent bot spam attempts, which was a real problem in the beginning.

I am definitely not trying to complete with Google, instead I am offering an old-school "just search" engine with no tracking, personalization filtering, or AI.

It's driven by my own personal nostalgia for the early Internet, and to find interesting hidden corners of the Internet that are becoming increasingly hard to find on Google after you wade through all of the sponsored results and spam in the first few pages...

I still remember their circles interface ;-)

Great feedback, agree I need to filter here. Some website localization is very hard to work around, because they will try to geo-locate the IP address of your bot and redirect it accordingly to a given language...

Thank you kindly! It's just for fun.

I guess you used the return key instead of clicking on the search icon? Seems to be a bug with the return key, I'll fix that this weekend sorry.

Yes indeed, they have an impossibly deep moat and deeper pockets. I'm certainly not trying to compete with them with my little side project, it's just for fun!

Very interesting, and it is very kind of you to share your data like that. Will review!

PageRank was an innovative idea in the early days of the Internet when trust was high, but yes it's absolutely gamed now and I would be surprised if Google still relies on it.

Fair play to them though, it enabled them to build a massive business.

I limit it to highly relevant curated seed sites, and don't allow public submissions. I'd rather have a small high-quality index.

You are absolutely right, it is the hardest part!

It will throw up weird and interesting results sometimes ;-)

I'll work on that adjustment, it's fair feedback thanks!

I don't weight home pages in any way yet to bump them up, it's just raw search on keyword relevance.

Thank you, will check it out!