5 bookmarks for 2024-06-07

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Directory enquiries

adactio.com/journal/19342

Search engines put their money on computation, or to use today’s parlance, algorithms (or if you’re really shameless, AI). Directories put their money on humans. Good ol’ information architecture.

It turned out that computation scaled faster than humans. Search won out over directories.

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monocles search

monocles.eu

monocles is a project founded to move to a more secure, ecofriendly, privacy respecting, fair and open source technical and digital life for everyone. monocles search is the most privacy-respecting, secure and ethical public search engine due to a open source meta-search engine combined with open source peer-to-peer search engines, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users and directly powered with renewable energy.

running searx

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imputnet/cobalt: save what you love

github.com/imputnet/cobalt

save what you love. Contribute to imputnet/cobalt development by creating an account on GitHub.

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— Urwid 2.6.13

urwid.org/index.html
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XMPP: Myths & Legends

xmpp.org/about/myths