• Is it like anything else I might be familiar with to help me understand better? (Note: almost 70 so may need old references.)

Reddit was mentioned, but that explains the format of this site, that people post stuff and people can upvote stuff they like to make it more visible to others.

But I haven’t (so far) seen anyone mention something similar to answer the question as to why there are so many different sites here. People from lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, lemmy.nz, and others are all participating here, all on their own sites but all somehow connected.

The old (and still well used) equivalent here is email. Email is a federated service, it’s not hosted by one company, anyone can operate an email server and in fact it’s very common. Emails look perhaps like [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected]. the part after the @ tells your email provider how to reach the server of the person you are emailing. You’ll notice user names can look similar to an email address, but have an @ at the beginning to identify them as separate from email addresses.

But yes, as others have mentioned, lemmy.world is the largest lemmy website, run by some people called the Fedihosting Foundation. Anyone can sign up there, and anyone can create a community there. It seems very unlikely there is an official relationship between Lemmy.world and Perchance.

And just for the record, you don’t have to memorise this. The lemmy website has a spoiler button, and most apps will have it too. Voyager has it in the … menu when replying.

Yeah but it’s a hope that perhaps it’s a little less cruel overall than the thought that this one kid is being tortured for no reason at all.

Is it possible they are hoping it gets attention to show how stupid the law is?

If I’m on my local network hosting my locally hosted services, I do.

The actual post on truth social is embedded in the original article.

Now I have truth social in my history.

Me too, except I’m 100% off Google too 😆

The 2000s were very different to the 2010s which were different to the 2020s for me.

2000s, internet (mostly) without facebook. Myspace, bebo, internet forums, MSN messenger.

2010s - Facebook, widespread internet use among parents and grandparents.

2020s - huge work culture shift. Huge political culture shift.

Interviews are two way. Prioritise finding a good boss, it really helps when it turns out the wider work environment is shit

Can confirm, I’ve recently got some cameras and set up Frigate and it’s been great. Not using Reolink but the ones I have work well enough. I have a TPLink that I like, and a Hilook starlight camera that I am not convinced on as it doesn’t seem to have auto-exposure adjustment. Both work well for object detection, though there’s a bit of a learning curve with frigate needing to be configured via YAML for a lot of things.

I’ve also started playing with Frigate’s face detection but I don’t think the cameras are really positioned for it. It probably makes more sense for a front door camera getting a good view of the person.

I’ve also got Home Assistant picking up the frigate camera streams which works well too.

Local storage on a VPS is expensive, and I’ve never been happy with a lower powered server serving media. Personally I self-host and send a backup to Backblaze B2 for offsite (using Rclone).

I use Borgmatic for incremental, deduplicated backups but make sure you save your encryption key somewhere you can access it if your house burns down.

I’m really happy to see this post acknowledge speed issues where there are many items, 100k+. I have around this and have always found Immich to be laggy, while others say how it’s the fastest ever.

I will have to give it another go.

I mean, that’s one way it happens. CEOs can serve different purposes, but a CEO who’s job it is is to be hated and take the blame for actions the board company wants done then get fired with a payout and move on to the next job? That’s definitely a thing.

An AI wouldn’t be able to do that job because they can’t be fired. Or on second thought, the board can change the AI program to a different company every few years.

That’s brilliant! So long as the AI company has a board to take the fall for any big AI mistakes.

But the fall guy is for things they know they shouldn’t do. They aren’t trying to only do the things they should.

From what people on Lemmy say, a CEO (and board) isn’t there to do a good job they are there to be a fall guy if something goes wrong, protecting shareholders from prosecution. Can AI do that?

Yes offering everything for free to prevent competition has been a surprisingly effective strategy for Google.

I think you’d be right that the direct cost of running the crawler and index would not be the issue. But fighting SEO to keep your results decent is probably a cost that dwarfs the basic technical cost of running the crawler and index.

And you’d need a technical security team on top of things as link farms aren’t your only risk, I’m sure there are countless ways to manipulate the algorithm to put your site on top that Google probably have multiple teams working on fighting it full time.

Many of these things would likely not be a problem for a startup, though. No one is paying SEO firms big money to get into a search index no one has heard of and hardly anyone uses, so these costs probably grow exponentially over time as you become more well known.

I’m not disputing that you might be right, but the internet archive runs a very different service. Mainly that Google needs to continuously prune their 400 billion page index because of link rot. The Internet Archive has the opposite aim, they are preserving sites that no longer exist.

I’m also not sure they even crawl. Do sites get added on user request? When looking at a medium popularity page, you see it only has a couple of scrapes a year.

None of them. At least, none that I’m aware of. I just don’t think that direct expenses are the reason that there are are only two major web search tools. I also don’t think Google and bing are good examples to point at when estimating the cost of running a complete search engine.

I would suggest direct expenses are the barrier, but perhaps crawling is not the main expense. I would be interested to know any speculations you have outside of expenses that cause a barrier?

That website claims they add 3-5 billion pages a month. Google is doing that in a day or three, as recency of information is very important in search. Plus that site claims 100 billion pages to Googles 400 billion. It’s still an impressive project.

Size isn’t everything, so the real question is: what search site uses only the common crawl index and has results on par with bing or google?