Ludicrous0251

Friendly reminder that correlation does not mean causation. I find it hard to believe that the Hormuz closure had much impact on these figures. Renewable energy at a measurable scale takes years to permit and implement. And this YOY increase is more likely the result of the rapidly rising build out of renewable infrastructure around the world. This war is a tragedy and a mess, but I do hope that maybe this is a wake-up call for a lot of people and may have significant impacts on future projects.

IDK what the situation was like specifically two years ago, but now: They have a whole section in their privacy policy on GDPR and CCPA etc, as well at clear instructions on how to use their service 100% anonymously leveraging TOR and Privacy Pass (+bitcoin and a burner email if you don’t want people even knowing you have a Kagi account) https://kagi.com/privacy https://kagi.com/privacy/rights Seems weird to put in a whole Privacy Rights section about the privacy laws that apply to them if they don’t think privacy laws apply to them.

That article is 2 years old. In the last two years Kagi hasn’t collapsed on itself, it’s not overrun with AI, the world hasn’t ended. They’ve implemented Privacy Pass, extended their browser support to Linux, introduced SlopStop for reporting AI websites, and generally continued to improve their main product. Kagi is a business, run by people, who make decisions to the best of their ability based on their understanding of what’s going to best serve their needs/priorities. Like any other product, the owners are guaranteed to make decisions that are not aligned with a fraction of their prospective customers needs/views. That’s what it’s like trying to serve a broad market like “internet search users”. Some of those users are inevitably going to get fired up enough to write a 20,000 word opinion piece on the subject. For any service, you have to choose if the value proposition makes sense for you and your needs. For me, the value of most free search services has gone down the drain, and the value of spending monthly for Kagi is better than having to think about/maintain a SearXNG instance. YMMV.

Probably but jumping spiders don't constantly affirm my decisions and viewpoints making me feel better about my insecurities.

More importantly, was it free as in beer?

At least they have text instructions. I got my browser at IKEA and all my instructions are just drawings or a small blob man using a computer - I have to infer the steps from there.

Absolute safest is a wipe but just powering off the phone means they won’t be able to access anything without a PIN (protected by the 5th amendment). There’s no laws against turning your phone off.

I work in a creative industry for a pretty large business, with limited exception really nobody is using AI except maybe to send lazy email responses. If there’s workers getting replaced by slop it’s not where I’m at. It just really hasn’t shown much ability to not fuck up. People dip their toe in occasionally to show upper upper management we’re leveraging “all the tools available to us”, but I’ve never seen it used for anything more substantial than a mood board.