ambitiousslab
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I used to be @ambitiousslab@feddit.uk. I also have the backup account @ambitiousslab@reddthat.com.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 10 comments
- Comment on Are there seach engines that dont depend Google and Bing, if not what are the barriers to entry of new search engines? 2 weeks ago:
There’s also YaCy, which is a peer-to-peer search engine. You index whatever you want, and when you search, you connect to lots of other indices.
I want to set up my own node at some point. My understanding is that the search results are hit and miss, but you have the power to improve things by building your own index of pages you want to search regularly. And this benefits everyone else too.
Since search indexing is so intensive, I think it’s the right technical solution for a truly open alternative.
- Comment on How should a news article website financially sustain itself? 4 weeks ago:
The idealistic approach would be: all content freely available, and ask readers to donate if they value it, to fund continual production of more work. E.g. Democracy for Sale. Even better if it’s under a free content license.
The practical scenario would be: make some content freely available, and put the rest behind a paywall. But the content should still be available in open formats like RSS. E.g. LWN, Stratechery.
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 1 month ago:
My partner, dad’s partner, and so many colleagues at my job, wasted so many weeks studying for this stupid, irrelevant test. If you add up all the people who have to take this, how many person hours have we wasted as a society.
We really need to get rid of this test, or at a minimum strip it down and make it about how to vote and access public services. But even then, if someone wants to learn that, they will of their own accord and in their own time anyway.
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 1 month ago:
67% for me, looks like I’m getting kicked out
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on What Is 'Pathways' And Who Is 'Amelia?' The Controversial Memes About The Viral U.K. Anti-Immigration Goth Girl Explained 3 months ago:
Nice to see that even in the virtual world, anti-immigration protesters don’t know what the flag is supposed to look like.
- Comment on When hardware products reach end-of-life, companies should be forced to open-source the software 3 months ago:
Now, I’m not asking companies to open-source their entire codebase. That’s unrealistic when an app is tied to a larger platform. What I am asking for: publish a basic GitHub repo with the hardware specs and connection protocols. Let the community build their own apps on top of it.
I agree with this. I think the most important thing is not necessarily the original company releasing the code (although that would be nice), but it being easy (and legal!) for hackers to reverse engineer and/or build on top of the platform.
The irony is that, since most such products will have some GPL’d code in there somewhere, most products already basically have such a requirement, thanks to the section requiring complete corresponding source including installation instructions. Hopefully, the Vizio case will establish the precedent that users can take action against such companies.
- Comment on Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID 3 months ago:
I’m happy this has happened. I’m still pretty wary, though. Can there be a cross party debate and agreement on what the limits should be? I worry this will just get pushed through later on, like the encryption backdoor clause of the OSA.