hmm, is this a change of topic?

a massively fatal pandemic in recent memory seems to have effected close to zero real change in public health funding/policy/etc

otoh a lot of the most useful and enduring software ever made has been made by volunteers in their spare time

eh 54k is enough to scrape ass in austin. but debts beyond cost of living could easily, easily sink you.

mandatory audits over a minimum net worth or valuation?

the thing that most grinds my gears is that there are settings that appear in both control panels and settings, appear to be changeable in both, but only one or the other actually changes anything.

dont many of the language primitives confer the possibility of thrown exceptions?

cant practically anything throw an exception given the right (sometimes extremely remotely possible) circumstances?

yeah i cant figure how this dumb fucking project is still alive. money i guess

grassroots resistance to horseshit laws gives me hope for humanity

i havent seen bad results at least. i use one with a good rating/latency listed on searx.space

yes i also noticed google search is absolute trash lately. so i switched to searx and life is better. i only go to google for street view and reverse image search now.

theres also cooked.wiki. tack “cooked.wiki/“ onto the start of a recipe URL and it scrapes and reformats for you

that was it!

i like it. years ago i did a puzzle where the box cover showed an illustration of the past and the actual puzzle was the same scene in the future

why do these things almost never close properly

i can imagine a drop of lemon in a bitter coffee may balance it a bit. and the aroma combo isnt bad.

i was wondering what would it take to make a free/open/noncommercial search solution maintained by a collective (like wikipedia or something). search is too important to be ruined for everyone by corporations.

i hope i never encounter a fried egg that is visibly squirming irl

http://wiki.ros.org/Robots/Roomba