General Discussion Thread

[Legend]

Anyone use self hosted search engines?


Saw some mentions of SearXNG

What even is a self hosted search engine? 🤔

[the-pi-guy]

What even is a self hosted search engine? 🤔

You basically host a page, and then it queries other search engines.  

It works by taking your search query, sending it simultaneously to over 70 major search services (like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo), and stripping out all user tracking, cookies, and ads before combining and displaying the results on a single page

[Legend]

You basically host a page, and then it queries other search engines. 

Oh pretty cool

[nnodley]

OMG!! Hayden Panettiere has died. 

[Legend]

OMG!! Hayden Panettiere has died. 

Wtf? That's horrible and sad.

[nnodley]

Looks like it was an overdose.  dang I knew she was struggling with that but I thought she had gotten to a better spot. Just never know. She was great in Heroes

[Legend]

Looks like it was an overdose.  dang I knew she was struggling with that but I thought she had gotten to a better spot. Just never know. She was great in Heroes

Yeah she was amazing in Heroes. Also liked her in Bring it on. I liked her a lot in general.

[kitler53]

came up on my socials:



i was a fan of michelle since buffy.   crazy to think that both stars of ice princess had died so young back-to-back.

[the-pi-guy]

Site seems to be loading unusually slow for me today. 

[Legend]

Site seems to be loading unusually slow for me today.

Yeah i see that. I think just more bot traffic, can you quantify it?

Edt: oh nvrmnd I see

[the-pi-guy]

It was taking like 10-15 seconds for the first load up. Actual thread seem to be loading faster generally, but still slower than usual. 

[Legend]

It was taking like 10-15 seconds for the first load up. Actual thread seem to be loading faster generally, but still slower than usual.

Yeah basically the problem is that the server has to put people in a queue because it can only handle a smaller amount of parallel page loads. The load itself isn't too bad but the queue can take a while.

No way to make a second queue just for logged in users, without really changing some things.

[the-pi-guy]

Has anyone ever seen it where someone justifies terrible things, by being like "well that's the way the world is"?

Spoiler for Hidden:

I saw some reddit comments where someone was talking about how they were confused how a north star, ever shining so brightly could be raped, because they get paid to do these things.&nbsp;<br><br>I chimed in, &quot;just because you pay someone, doesn&#39;t mean you can do whatever you want to them.&quot;<br><br>They responded just like &quot;that&#39;s human nature bro, people exploit each other&quot;<br><br>

I just think these people are so stupid and evil. 

And I try very hard not to view people as stupid and evil. 

[kitler53]

he clearly voted for trump. 

[nnodley]

Anyone know of the best ways to sell magic the gathering cards? I'm looking at TCG player but didn't know if anyone else is either into MTG or sold any?

I have like $600 worth of cards with only maybe 45 cards. Biggest one is worth $100