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You could try https://searchmysite.net to search personal and independent websites.

Not a new phenomenon: Gillette patented the technique that Wilkinson Sword had invented for making stainless steel blades, and suppressed the production of the much longer lasting stainless steel blad…

No mention of HomePlug/Powerline? Turns the power lines in your house into a wired LAN - plug one into your router and a mains wall socket and the other(s) into mains wall socket(s) in other room…

I still quite like the idea of having a number of independent search engines each indexing their own specialist subjects, and one or more federated search front-ends which can pull these together. Doi…

> "Hybrid approaches that use vector search for broad matches and rerank using BM25" Hybrid approaches, e.g. Learning To Rank, normally do it the other way around, given the main benef…

When I was young someone told me something similar (but not exactly the same) - "imagine you have a zip on your mouth and you have to unzip it before speaking". The point was not the zip, bu…

Another factor to consider, especially with some countries currently facing the prospect of having much of their oil and gas supplies cut, is how fast you can scale up new forms of energy production a…

They're planning on preserving the remains of Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre in place behind a glass enclosure. Its exact location had been forgotten for a few hundred years, but was found un…

Got a couple of my dad's old employment performance reviews yesterday from his time overwintering in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It's a standard list of 21 questions applied to each pers…

@rukshn Thanks for your post. Personally I'm not convinced by the idea of adding site:reddit.com to your Google search query either, not just because it will get gamed by SEO practitioners as you…

The whole article could have been replaced with the line "I changed my mind about advertising because I now make money from advertising". The fact that the author feels compelled to spin it …

My daughter just built her very own Raspberry Pi 4 based computer[0] last weekend for her 10th birthday. Key points: - She picked the components herself (with dad's supervision to make sure they …

Back at a desktop computer now. Thanks for the tip. The only time I'd used Google Takeout was when I migrated away from Google Play Music, but in that case it generated 100s of gigabytes of data …

I've only got 1 year of calendar entries on the official Google Calendar app on an up-to-date Android 12 phone. A quick search suggests the mobile app only stores 1 year but allows searching of 2…

Anecdote: On of the best friends of my oldest daughter moved to a new rented flat recently. When I saw the address for a playdate, I recognised it and said to my daughter "I think you went to a b…

I used a "high street filled with shops" vs "public library filled with books" analogy for the current internet vs old internet a year or so back: " ...imagine you live in a t…

From the article: "... an hour’s drive north from Shipton is a suburb of Rugby called Hillmorton, where at the time [the 1970s] the British government operated a very-low-frequency (VLF) radio st…

Not sure about 1997, but definitely in 1998: I've been a Linux user since 1995, when I worked for a (then small now big) software company. I setup up their web site on Slackware Linux, building a…

We also now have the NHS's Food Scanner app in the UK: https://www.nhs.uk/healthier-families/food-facts/nhs-food-sc... …

It doesn't talk about what the return on (time) investment is. I've made several concerted efforts over the past 10+ years to use Twitter, with various accounts on various subjects, dutifull…

The model my search uses is for the public search to essentially be a loss leader for the search as a service - site owners can pay a small fee to access extra features such as being able to configur…

Also https://searchmysite.net/ for personal and independent websites (essentially a loss-leader for its open source self-hostable search as a service).…

One of the (many) issues I had with The Matrix was that it was always very clear cut when they were in the simulation and when they were in the real world, whereas if the simulation was that realistic…

That's one of the reasons why, according to a friend of a friend, those in the know prefer hardware mouse jigglers to software mouse jigglers. It seems to have spawned a whole new industry, with …

Yes, I should have put a disclaimer in, but I think the teething issues are largely settled. The point was that the investment was there though. And to the original point that "at least in Europe…