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I also have the account @Novocirab@jlai.lu. Furthermore, I own the account @daswetter@feddit.org, which I hope to make a small bot out of in the future.

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Cake day: February 27th, 2025

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  • Noch eine Nachfrage zu den im letzten Absatz angesprochenen Ideen und Konzepten: Gibt es da Dokumente aus Polizeikreisen, auf die du verlinken kannst? Es dürfte schließlich ganz charmant sein, wenn wir in Diskussionen unsere Reformvorschläge einleiten könnten mit: „Also, was ein Professor der Hochschule der Polizei BW mal vorgeschlagen hat, ist…“

    Generell: Die Polizeihochschulen haben nicht zufällig so etwas wie ein gemeinsames Archiv oder einen zentralen Publikationsserver, oder?
















  • Just gave it the first real try today, in the context of (a) understanding some programming topics and (b) finding opticians in my town.

    Kagi is so. much. better than any of the DuckDuckGo, Google, Brave, SearXNG, Startpage, Ecosia, and what not.

    They even have a search mode “Small Web” to show “results that favor noncommercial domains and topics”. Other modes include “Programming”, “Fediverse forums”, “Usenet/Archive”, “Forums” and “Academic” (to be selected under Settings/Search/Lenses).

    And when Kagi accidentally does serve you some bullshit page, the button to block or de-prioritize the website in all future searches is right there. Conversely, one can give high-quality sites a higher priority in the results listings.

    And one can set up regexes to automatically replace links to twitter.com or x.com by xcancel.com, or replace links to reddit.com by old.reddit.com, etc.

    The monthly ~5€ for 300 searches (which I would use mostly for programming tasks while sticking to SearXNG or so for more mundane lookups), or even the ~10€ for unlimited searches, will definitely be worth it.







  • I didn’t know about the web interfaces of Invidious instances. Definitey looks cool, and this redicrect domain is handy to quickly find a working instance.

    Still, FreeTube has a couple of major advantages. One is that even if your go-to Invidious instance becomes unusable, your local FreeTube configuration (subscriptions, blocks, ricings, you name it) remains 100% in effect, because FreeTube just picks a different instance. Even when Google again makes all Invidious instances dysfunctional, FreeTube may still be usable by accessing YouTube directly. Also, FreeTube likely has A LOT more options—the settings page is quite sizeable. Finally, I find it increasingly nice that it’s a standalone client separate from your browser. It makes it more deliberate to start watching videos, so that I’m less likely to go on senseless watching sprees; and conversely, when I’m watching useful videos, I’m less likely to interrupt them by going to some irrelevant website.




  • There’s a provision that says the trust structure can be changed without everyone’s consent if the intended change is in the interest of all trustees. Rupert, Lachlan and their team want to exploit this by arguing that the ongoing financial success of the media empire is dependent on it retaining its staunchly conservative editorial line, so that it is in fact (from a financial point of view) in the interest of the three non-conservative children if they don’t get to have any influence. The first judge wasn’t buying it; let’s hope that the others will rule the same way. (One argument in their favor is that the $787 million settlement that Fox News has to pay to Dominion Voting System due to a defamation lawsuit was a consequence of Rupert’s or Lachlan’s die-hard conservative messaging.)

    What’s less good: I remember dimly that, should Rupert live long enough (past theö year 2030?), he can change the trust at will again.