It’s character building though.

I love blogs, specially from people with niche interests and experiences. I follow them via RSS. So that’s what I read outside of Lemmy / Reddit / Mastodon.

Recently I’ve been following the blog written by an IT guy working in a research station in Antarctica (also has a great domain name).

https://brr.fyi/

SearXNG.

It’s a metasearch engine (aggregates results from several engines and feeds then back to me). It also filters out sites I don’t want, and redirects Reddit to the old interface.

I guess it depends on what you want to use it for.

If it’s knowledge management (to manage your own personal notes), you might want to check out logseq.

I subscribe to the top submissions on hacker news via RSS: https://hnrss.github.io/

It’s 99% tech, but every once in a while you get an interesting post from a blog about something else. I then subscribe directly to the blogs I want to keep reading.

I’ve just been slowly curating my RSS feed for years. I like the high signal-to-noise ratio it provides me.

What issues did you have with SearXNG?

You could try to self host it, or even just run it on your local machine.

Shameless plug on how to set it up locally, and how to set up custom filters (to block junk websites and redirect reddit to the old interface).

Ah fair enough.

I started by having it on my laptop, and used it only there. Liked it so much that I’m renting a VPS around $5 a month to have it on all my devices.

But to be fair, I’m also hosting other things on that VPS (SearXNG is very light), so it’s multi-purpose.

Maybe one of these?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)

Went with linode since it was reasonably priced and popular. But might move if something better comes along.

I have all the server setup done with ansible, so it’s super easy to reproduce everything in a new machine.

New tinder profile pic for when he gets divorced again?