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Ah, I wondered if something like that had been tried before. Looks like it is maybe still running: https://yacy.net/

The demo isn't giving me useful search results.

I think you are not a computer programmer. Trying to build an index of the web by querying other search engines is not an efficient or sensible way to do things. Using ActivityPub for it is insane. Sharing query results in the obvious way might help a little during events where everyone searches for the same thing all at once, but in a relatively small pool of relatively sophisticated Internet users I don't think that happens often enough to justify the enormous amount of work and complexity.

On the other hand a distributed web crawler that puts its results in a free and decentralized database (one appropriate to the task; not blockchain) might be interesting. If the load on each node could be made light enough and the software simple enough that millions of people could run it at home, maybe it could be one way to build a new search engine. If that needs doing and someone has several hundred hours of free time to get it started.

Canadians tend to watch a lot of television from the USA. As the country lost its connections to the British it became more easily influenced by the Americans. For now I think a majority are still relatively sane, but there's probably a solid 20% who are hoping that our next president will be Donald Trump.

I didn't mean to imply that their top stories aren't of interest, only that I wish it were easier to see more of the many things they publish.

The problem with lite/news?sort=latest is that it as of right now for example it's showing only 2 hours worth of the many stories they publish, and there's no option to retrieve more. If you check it once a day you're missing 90% of what they publish.

If you choose the "editor's choice" link instead you'll get all the many stories about the Olympics, US politics, and wildfires, and you'll miss most of the stories that might actually be interesting on any given day.

It's a stripped-down low-bandwidth microcosm of this dysfunctionality of the whole news industry.

Maybe. When Reuters publishes such a thing it just makes me wonder what crazy new law they are trying to gin up support for. As they say "When authorities restrict one chemical, suppliers and traffickers just switch to another." It worries me to imagine what kind of "solution" they might dream up for that problem.

That seems like a lot of trouble to go to just for one clickbait headline.

If cheap animation is the thing AI will give us, why use it only for comedy? Why not magically generated tragedy, pornography, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited?

66%! I'd have guessed more like 85.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation

Normally I try to use apt for everything, but yt-dlp is an exception since when you want it, you probably do actually want the latest version. I think the only thing it depends on is python, so simple enough to get it from git one way or another.

PS: Now that I actually look at that page I linked to, I see there's a PPA repo you could use. I don't know who runs it or how up-to-date it is, but it's probably a better bet than what you were trying.

In the future, maybe AI will improve sufficiently to allow them to pretend to respond to petitions like this one instead of what appears to be the current practice of providing a wall of text that does not address the proposal in any way except in that it matches some of the right keywords.

Maybe even in Starfleet being useful ain't all that?