reka

I too am a fan of Comic Sans. It sits in my heart the same place as overplayed dad rock.

I actually code in a monospace variant of comic sans because my life is basically a shitpost

https://www.fonts.com/font/tabular-type-foundry/comic-code

Phind has its own approach with various automated prompts and UI functions. It's free to use so you can compare the differences in function.

I don't even think I've ever heard the word "propitiatory" used so TIL from my own error

It's funnier than 95% of film or TV comedies. The writers are amazing.

"Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun" is the funniest interaction in any video game I have ever played by an order of magnitude

As soon as we conceded "milk" for plant milks we were setting off on a long path of bullshit. If something is designed as an alternative to something it should be able to explain it's designed purpose.

If you're a programmer, might I suggest the brave new world of ChatGPT enhanced search via Phind.com

Even if you're not, it's fantastic. It basically takes your input and processes it like ChatGPT but then is trained to run web searches to grab further information and uses that to progress its own internal monologue. The result is a natural language response with search engine like results down the side which are cited within the main response.

My process is:

• Search DDG
• If that's not satisfactory (it is IME about 80% of the time) prefix with !sp to search googles index proxied by start page

Where did you hear this? This isn't true. If you want google without the tracking, use StartPage (if you're using DDG this can be accessed with the !sp bang preface)

DDG uses Bing as their fallback engine but also does a lot of propitiatory indexing of its own

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

I'd just like to commend you on your choice of language here. You're more diplomatic than most politicians! Well expressed and I support the principals you put forward.

Ok, it makes sense different servers have different missions. Beehaw is taking a more front-page approach and that's an essential job especially at early adoption phase. Sorry just taking time to understand!

Interesting to know thank you for explaining