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Tom Bombadildo

I finally picked up Baba is You the other week and I’ve been slowly bashing my head against it. I’m really enjoying it, but also finding it quite difficult. It makes its own internal kind of sense, in that solutions are always logical according to the game rules and somewhat obvious in retrospect. But the game operates so fundamentally differently than what I’d expect from a puzzle game that it’s utterly mindbending. Turns the “Ah ha!” moment you get in something like Portal into more of an “Oh, of -course-!” when something clicks. Highly rewarding.

Pretty sure that was Corey Doctorow.

EDIT: Found it

Fuck my shit ass job, the tiny cheap microwave, leaking dishwasher, jank ass sink, and busted deep fryer.

FUCK trying to make friends when you’re over 40 and don’t drink, and fuck my stupid social anxiety making showing up for local orgs way harder than it should be.

oh fuck the line isn’t going up

Pretty sure someone (or multiple someones) on here called this on the day.

Builds bots that make deepfakes, scams and fraud 1000x easier

OH NO better buy our human verification device

Just fucking stop.

The list lets you find an instance by country, then after that results depend on which engines are enabled. Check the settings on whatever instance you select.

That is incredibly useful. I didn’t know it did that but it stands to reason, it’s just another search URL after all. In that case it’d probably be fairly trivial to just scrape the list at searx.space and jam it in the yaml file say once a week.

It’s easy enough to host your own, and if you’re just using it like a normal person you’re not going to hit a rate limit. Goog can’t really tell the difference between you hitting it from a browser vs. you hitting it from searx.

You could probably either proxy outbound requests through a bunch of different boxes if you really wanted to, or maybe there’s some frontend that queries public instances in like a round-robin kind of way (a meta-meta engine, I guess), but honestly I suspect that’s more work than just spinning up your own.

Setup is indeed very easy, I run a local-only instance on my PC at home. Been a while since I did it but from memory I think it’s just a docker one-liner. You are right that rate limiting can be an issue and that’s part of the reason I spun up my own.

I will always suggest Searx. It’s a meta front-end, filters out all the AI garbage and ads. FOSS and self hostable but there’s plenty of public instances to try. You can customise which engines it uses, although what’s available to choose from is up to the instance maintainer.

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Even if I don’t, it feels like I do, so it’s kinda the same thing.

I haven’t bothered to check. My crackwatch sub is on my other instance, which is still down.

Tried the demo of Pragmata. It’s good, but it’s not $100 worth of good. I’ll pick it up eventually.

How in the fuck did they spin a cloud service as “own your games”?

My bad. Never seen it before and it has that “puckered butthole” look that most AIs have for some reason.

TF is that logo in the corner? Some new AI slop engine?