Tech Morality is hard 33 ▲ Forking Mad+ 58 days ago · Tech · hide · 4 comments I try to do my best with my technology stack, by ensuring they meet my own morals and standards for life. I do this via a combination of informed choices; supporting independent developers; self-hosting. A combination of these help me feel I am doing the right thing. What is the Right thing?That is the million-dollar question. For me, I want to be as sure as I can that my tech stack is not exploiting people; is fair to the community; delivers and lives by standards I can identify with. Changes I've madeAs an example, I obviously dropped X like a hot potato, when it was taken over by the egotist Musk. His vision, standards, and personality are vile. Clearly, I base his personality on what I read; I have never met the man That started my quest for more moral tech. Since then I've dropped Telegram; I refuse to read anything on substack; I've removed myself from Google's machine; I've migrated all my data storage into Europe from the USA; the list goes on. And now MullvadThe latest target… Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. Dan @dfraser@mastodon.sdf.org 58 days ago [-] @daj Kagi has a troubling relationship/partnership with Brave and handled the disappointment of their users with the classic “big tent” and “tech is not political” and “we just want the best search results” arguments. You can find the megathread in their support forum. Also despite claims of privacy, I’ve never felt comfortable using search with a logged-in, traceable account. There’s no good answers in all this :( unattributed 𓂃✍︎ @unattributed@gotosocial.social 58 days ago [-] @daj If you are now questioning your Kagi subscription, I might suggest looking at self-hosting SearXNG. This is an aggregate search engine that allows you to choose the services that you use and anonymizes your searches. Might save you a subscription.https://hub.docker.com/r/searxng/searxng David - Forking Mad @daj@gofer.social 58 days ago [-] Thanks. I've looked at a few of the meta search engines. With varying degrees of satisfaction. I did look at SearXNG about two years ago. It's maybe time for a new look@bubbles unattributed 𓂃✍︎ @unattributed@gotosocial.social 58 days ago [-] @bubbles I've liked several of these aggregate engines for years, but the problem I had run into is that public instances can end up making too many API calls, resulting in them being blocked. With a local instance that's not a concern.The thing I like about SearXNG is the ability to apply weights to the search engine results. So, for example, I could lower Yandex if I found they were promoting propaganda over more accurate results. (That's a made up example…)Hopefully you'll find it as useful as I do.Also, I recall there being another self-hosted, aggregation search engine out there. I tried to get it going, but failed… That's what led me to looking at self-hosting SearXNG.
